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The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction in both countries. The initial, stronger earthquake emanated from a fault 11 miles (18 kilometers) below the surface. The shallow ...

ISRO's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) successfully launched three satellites into their intended orbits. This was the rocket's second developmental flight and the SSLV-D2 vehicle placed EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 satellites into their intended 450 km circular orbit with an ...

On Wednesday, February 15th, the maiden flight of Japan's H3 rocket is scheduled to launch from the Tanegashima Space Center located in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. The H3 rocket, which is the successor to the nation's H2A rocket, will ...

Mark Dankberg Prominent and trusted industry leaders – including Viasat’s Chairman and CEO, Mark Dankberg – will be appointed as members of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). This committee will provide national security and emergency preparedness solutions ...

The demonstrated high-performance solution leverages phased-array antenna and ultra-fast-roaming capabilities between satellites to support critical manned and unmanned C2/ISR government missions SES, ThinKom and Hughes have successfully demo'd high-performance, multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions ...

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) has been awarded four Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) III satellite systems and services task order modifications exceeding $20 million dollars, under the Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems (GTACS) IDIQ award, to support global U.S. Army operations ...

These two Planet SkySat images were captured on February 7, 2023, and reveals major damage in central Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, in the aftermath of yesterday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Both image captures are courtesy of Planet Labs ...

Procures satellites and plans Australian operations for new Low Earth Orbit constellation to power connectivity for smart devices EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) has announced an agreement with Astro Digital, a designer, manufacturer and operator of smallsat systems, for the construction ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 has successfully launched the Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission from Cape Canaveral SFS' Space Launch Complex 40. The first stage booster supporting this mission has previously launched SES-22, ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, and three Starlink missions. Following ...

Original Response Date: March 1, 2023 SDA has issued a DRAFT solicitation for the first of several types of Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) space vehicles—T2TL Beta. This DRAFT solicitation establishes the foundation for Tranche 2 of the Proliferated Warfighter ...

Virgin Orbit (NASDAQ: VORB) and satellite manufacturer SatRev have announced a follow-on, launch services agreement (LSA) for additional launches of SatRev’s satellites in 2023 and beyond. This new agreement provides SatRev with the flexibility to launch 500 kg. over multiple ...

NASA has selected Astrotech Space Operations, LLC of Titusville, Florida, and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide commercial payload processing services for agency missions launching from multiple locations. Under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract, NASA will ...

The following is an announcement from NASA...NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute is pleased to announce the official release of the 2022 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This endeavor was made successful by the contributions of numerous people across NASA ...

OnThursday, February 2nd., at 2:43 a.m., ET (7:43 UTC), a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris awards Doug Hurley (R) and Bob Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Photo: NASA Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) executive Doug Hurley, former NASA astronaut and Colonel in the United States Marine Corps, was ...

Internally-funded LM 400 Tech Demonstrator Satellite Progresses Toward 2023 Launch LM 400 Mid-Sized Multi-Mission Satellite BusThe agile LM 400 is a flexible, mid-sized satellite bus customizable for military, civil or commercial users and designed to enable one platform to support ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites and D-Orbit’s ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, January 31st., at 8:15 a.m. , PT, (16:34 ...

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In-Space Missions Ltd. is partnering with Singapore Space Technologies Ltd. (SSTL) to initiate Faraday Dragon, an Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional satellite rideshare mission that is targeted for launch in 2025. Faraday Dragon will fly multiple payloads for regional space players including ...

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced that ground control has successfully established communication with three radio frequency (RF) geolocation smallsats developed by SFL for HawkEye 360 of Herndon, Virginia. Cluster 6 was launched on January 24, 2023, on the inaugural ...