
UPDATE: Blue Origin’s New Shepard Launch Is Successful
Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th mission to space and back on January 14, 2021, for the New Shepard program. Mission NS-14 featured a crew capsule outfitted with astronaut experience upgrades for upcoming flights with passengers onboard. Capsule upgrades included: ...

Space Mobility On-Orbit Demo Success By Exotrail
Exotrail reports the full success of the first-ever cubesat mission equipped with Hall-effect electric propulsion technology. Through an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to LEO on November 7, 2020, onboard a PSLV rocket, Exotrail nominally ignited its ExoMG™ Hall-effect electric propulsion ...

UPDATE: Rocket Lab’s First Launch Of 2021 For OHB Group Set For January 16
UPDATE Rocket Lab is currently targeting no earlier than 07:38, January 16 UTC for lift-off of our 18th Electron launch, the ‘Another One Leaves The Crust’ mission. Launch Window: NZT: 20:38 - 20:45 (16 Jan)UTC: 07:38 - 07:45 (16 Jan)ET: ...
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XipLink Names New EMEAA VP Of Sales
XipLink has named Omar Diab as the firm's Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia (EMEAA) regions and he will be based in Dubai, UAE. He will initially focus on the Middle East and North Africa ...

EO: The Netflix Model — NSR’s Satellite Based Earth Observation Analysis
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Intuitive Machines’ 2nd Mission To The Moon To Be Launched By SpaceX
There are currently five awarded Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions to the lunar surface that are scheduled to occur during the next three years. Intuitive Machines (IM) has two of the missions and both will be launched by SpaceX ...

New Handheld Vector Analyzer Up To 26.5 GHz Issued By Rohde & Schwarz
The R&S ZNH handheld vector network analyzer helps detect and remedy defective RF cables and communications system components and can also characterize components up to 26.5 GHz in the field and lab. The R&S ZNH comes standard with essential functions, ...

AXESS Networks Named As A Best Teleport Operator In The WTA’s Latest Top Teleport Operator Rankings
With the latest release of the World Teleport Association’s (WTA) yearly Top Teleport Operator Rankings, AXESS Networks (AXESS) manifests its leading position in the elite of the best teleport operators in the world. AXESS Networks, which has been founded in ...

SDA Adds AsiaSat As The Organization’s Newest Member
AsiaSat is the latest satellite operator to join the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators. Formed in 2009, the SDA supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of data that is critical to the safety ...

Gateway Partnership For Artemis Program Signed by NASA + Government of Japan
NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement strengthens the broad effort by the United States to engage international partners in ...

Redstone Arsenal In Alabama Preferred Choice For US Space Command HQ
The Secretary of the Air Force, on behalf of the Office of Secretary of Defense, selected Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred location for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. The Department of the Air Force conducted both virtual and ...

Orbit Logic SCRAMBLs a Blockchain for Constellation Communication Over Dynamic Networks
Blockchain application involving spacecraft constellation state message broadcasting NASA has selected and sponsors Orbit Logic a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract to develop Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering (SCRAMBL) – a secure and distributed ...

SES Networks and Southern Cross Cables Connect in Pacific Region
SES' O3b constellation to the rescue as to Island of Kiribati and the rest of the world as it upgrades the undersea Southern Cross cable network. This is a welcome relief as two islands in Tokelau and Kiribati are undergoing ...