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Topping off the new Vega-C rocket on its maiden flight is a freshly-designed fairing developed by Beyond Gravity

July 12, 2022

On Wednesday, July 13th, the new, medium-lift, European Vega-C rocket lifted off from the European spaceport in Kourou for its inaugural flight. The rocket launched the “LARES 2” Laser Relativity satellite, built by OHB Italia for the Italian space agency [ASI]. The spherical satellite enables research into geodynamics and general relativity. The top of the […]

Filed Under: Computers, Europe, Fairings, Inaugural, Italy, Kourou, Launch, Launch Vehicle, SmallSats, Sweden, Switzerland, Vega-C Tagged With: Featured

Mission Microwave announces an $8 million follow-on contract for SATCOM terminal upgrades

July 12, 2022

Mission Microwave has teamed with an industry leading, system integrator that is supporting a U.S. Government (USG) requirement and has won a significant terminal upgrade program contract ($8 million) that replaces Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA) with High Performance, Lightweight, Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) in Ku- and Ka-band. Mission Microwave engineers worked with their […]

Filed Under: BUC, Business Moves, Comms, Contract Follow-On, Contracts, GaN, Ka-Band, Ku-Band, Solid-State, Tactical SATCOM, TWTA, U.S. Government Tagged With: Featured

Space Systems Command’s next Industry Day to highlight Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

July 12, 2022

Space Systems Command (SSC) officials and other agencies involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA) will meet with traditional and non-traditional space industry professionals July 28th in Colorado Springs to exchange ideas and methods to execute SDA missions at the next SSC Industry Day. To register, visit the SSC Front Door webpage. The unclassified event will […]

Filed Under: Events, https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/space-systems-command-front-door, Military, SDA, U.S. Space Command Tagged With: Featured

Lockheed Martin-developed NIRCam within NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures a galaxy cluster as it appeared billions of years ago

July 11, 2022

NASA has released the first image of some of the earliest light in our universe, taken with an instrument that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) designed and built. The debut photo from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is the first from one of the most sensitive, infrared cameras ever built to observe […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Deep Space, Imagery, JWST, NASA, Space Exploration Tagged With: Featured

NASA’s EMIT mission + a smallsat to ride to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on July 14th

July 11, 2022

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m., EDT, Thursday, July 14th, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station. The mission — NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) — will fly aboard SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will […]

Filed Under: Falcon 9, Launch, Launch Contract, Launch Facilities, Launch Management, Launch Support, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, Monitoring, SmallSat Tagged With: Featured

UPDATE: A SpaceX Falcon 9 moves 46 Starlinks to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base

July 10, 2022

SpaceX, on Sunday, July 10th, launched a Falcon 9 with a payload of 46 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The instantaneous launch window was at 6:39 p.m. PT (01:39 UTC on Monday, July 11) . The first stage booster supporting this mission […]

Filed Under: Droneship, Falcon 9, Launch, Launch Facilities, Launch Management, Launch Support, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, Starlink, Vandenberg SFB Tagged With: Featured

Virgin Galactic ‘inks’ an agreement with Aurora Flight Sciences for nexgen motherships

July 7, 2022

Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) (the “Company” or “Virgin Galactic”) has signed an agreement with Aurora Flight Sciences (“Aurora”), a Boeing company, to partner in the design and manufacturing of the Company’s next generation motherships. The mothership is the air launch carrier aircraft in Virgin Galactic’s space flight system that carries the spaceship to its release […]

Filed Under: Air-Launched, Business Moves, Carrier Aircraft, Contracts, Design, Development, Manufacturing, Partnerships Tagged With: Featured

SpaceX’s 53 Starlink satellites are on their way

July 7, 2022

SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 13th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and now eight Starlink missions. The first […]

Filed Under: Cape Canaveral SFS, Constellation, Falcon 9, Launch, Launch Facilities, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, LEO, Rocket Launch, Starlink Tagged With: Featured

Digantara successfully launches their space-based weather monitoring system

July 7, 2022

Digantara has successfully launched the world’s first, commercial, space-based space weather monitoring system, ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence meter). The system launched into LEO on June 30, 2022, at 1800 hrs, IST, from SHAR, India, on Indian Space Research Organizations’ PSLV-C53 mission. The system is the smallest, digital space weather instrument in existence and one […]

Filed Under: India, Launch, Launch Facilities, Launch Support, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, Monitoring, PSLV, Space Weather Tagged With: Featured

Northrop Grumman selects Airbus U.S. Space — Defense Inc. to supply 42 satellite bus platforms

July 6, 2022

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) (NYSE: NOC) has selected Airbus U.S. Space & Defense Inc. as the commercial provider of satellite platforms for NGC’s proliferated-LEO constellation. Under the terms of the contract, Airbus U.S. will supply 42 satellite “bus” platforms, as well as support vehicle assembly, integration and testing. Northrop Grumman’s T1TL mesh satellite constellation will […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Buses, Business Moves, Constellation, Contracts, LEO, Mesh Network, Military, SDA, SmallSat Tagged With: Featured

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