Article by Lesley Conn, senior manager of Research and Analysis at Space Foundation Introduction This edition, a special publication for the 36th Annual Space Symposium, examines where we are as […]
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RSCC’s Express-AM5 Assisting With Comms During The Yakutia Region’s Fires
The Express-AM5 satellite, operated by RSCC, is now restoring communications and the internet in the Yakutia regions of Russia that have been affected by the fire Information notice — the […]
China Launches Two For Earth Viewing
China has successfully launched the nation’s Tianhui II-02 satellite group at 6:32 a.m. on Thursday, August 19, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China’s Shanxi Province. The EO […]
Maxar’s WorldView-1 Captures General, Overhead Views Of Evacuation Chaos At Hamid Karzai Int’l Airport In Afghanistan
Maxar collected new satellite imagery on August 19 of Kabul, including the Hamid Karzai International Airport (photo above). Large crowds of people and cars can be seen gathered at multiple […]
Maxar’s Rapid Access Program Adds 2 New Clients For On-Demand Satellite Imagery Tasking
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has two new customers that have signed multi-million-dollar contracts to subscribe to the company’s Rapid Access Program (RAP), including the first customer for RAP in Latin […]
Airbus Wishes To Deliver NexGen MILSATCOM For Australia
Airbus has announced that Sydney, Australia-based, ground-control infrastructure specialist UGL will become the latest local partner to join the Airbus teaming arrangement in its bid to deliver next-generation military satellite […]
New Vietnamese NanoDragon Satellite Heading To Japan For Launch By JAXA
A new, locally-made, smallsat developed by the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) has been completed and sent to Japan for launch into orbit. On August 11, the VNSC announced that […]
Canadian Space Agency Assigns Contract To EarthDaily Analytics
EarthDaily Analytics, a vertically-integrated data processing and analytics company, announced a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to conduct trade studies and a demonstration of next generation cloud-based Synthetic-Aperture […]
Dawn Aerospace To Empower The Indonesian Space Agency’s Tsunami Warning Satellite Constellation
The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia (LAPAN) has selected Dawn Aerospace‘s green propulsion for a new satellite constellation used for the early detection of Tsunamis. Indonesia, located […]
Telesat + Government Of Ontario, Canada, Pursue Lightspeed Partnership
Telesat and the Government of Ontario have partnered to bridge the digital divide in Ontario by leveraging Telesat’s advanced, state-of-the-art, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, Telesat Lightspeed. This $109 […]