NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five ...
Rocket Lab’s New Zealand success deploys satellites to separate orbits 500km apart for KAIST and NASA
Following payload deployment to two separate orbits, Electron’s Kick Stage completed a final engine burn to lower its altitude and speed up its reentry to help reduce space junk. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) , a global leader in ...
SpaceX’s double success a Starlink smallsats launch and the 300th Falcon booster landing
Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream. On Tuesday, April 23 at 6:17 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites packed inside the fairing atop the 230-foot rocket to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...
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MDA Space debuts their new SKYMAKER™ product line of space robotics
MDA Space has announced their MDA SKYMAKER™, a new suite of space robotics purpose-built to meet the diverse needs of customers’ most ambitious missions — unveiled recently at the Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, MDA SKYMAKER™ is now available ...
Septentrio mosaic™ GPS/GNSS now also available in MIKROE Click board™ ecosystem
mosaic-X5 compact GNSS* receiver module from Septentrio as been integrated into a new Click board™ by MIKROE, a provider of solutions for embedded systems development. The new board, called Mosaic Click, is compatible with the popular mikroBUS™ socket standard, enabling ...
Skyports raises million$$$+
Skyports has announced that ACS Group has made a substantial equity investment in the company, becoming the largest investor in the firm. ACS Group, which in 2023 generated revenue of $39 billion, has invested via its wholly owned infrastructure development/concessions ...
Rocket Lab updates ‘Beginning Of The Swarm’ mission for Korea’s KAIST and NASA’s ACS 3
This latest mission will see Rocket Lab perform multiple in-space engine burns to deploy two payloads to separate orbits several hundred kilometers apart. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has set the launch window for its next Electron launch. The ...
SpaceX may have weather issues on Monday’s Starlink Group 6-53 launch
Starlink satellites before deployment. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into LEO from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, for the Starlink mega-constellation, on Monday, April 22 from 3:40 - 7:40 ...
Global space defense + security investment — major growth trend over the coming decade
NovaSpace, formerly Euroconsult, is forecasting that the worldwide launch rate for defense and dual-use satellites will increase by 160% over the coming decade. NovaSpace estimates that worldwide government expenditures in space defense and security reached more than $58 billion, a ...
KP Labs releases 1st hyperspectral images processed by AI on-board the Intuition-1 satellite
KP Labs announces the successful capture of the first hyperspectral images by the Intuition-1 satellite, which provides detailed observations of the equatorial region. This development and onboard data processing supported by AI highlights a significant advancement in Earth observation capabilities, ...
Red Cat flies into an agreement with Sentien Robotics UAS
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has entered into a partnership with Sentien Robotics that will enable organizations using Sentien’s Hive UAS management platforms to deploy Teal Drones as part of a larger autonomous drone swarming strategy for mobile and fixed-position land, ...
Blackswan Space secures $$$ in pre-seed funding round
Since 2019, Blackswan Space has pioneered autonomous space technologies in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and commercial partners. The company's Mission Design Simulator (MDS) enables customers to simulate complex spacecraft maneuvers for on-orbit servicing, object retrieval missions, space ...
SpaceX to launch Starlink satellite Group 6-53 on Monday
From Thursday, April 18 launch. Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream SpaceX's Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into LEO from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, for the Starlink mega-constellation, on Monday, ...