Russia is withdrawing from the ISS
Russia intends to withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project with the West after 2024, this according to the new head — Yury Borisov — of Roscosmos, the nation’s […]
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Virgin Orbit’s 1st UK launch is for RHEA Group’s DOVER Pathfinder smallsat
Virgin Orbit has been selected to launch RHEA Group’s first satellite into space. The company is working with Open Cosmos to design, build and operate this missions. Open Cosmos and […]
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Curtiss-Wright provides the Vega-C launcher with the telemetry data system
Curtiss-Wright Defense Systems provided a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), telemetry data subsystem for the new Vega-C launcher. Vega-C is designed to deliver government, commercial and science payloads weighing up to 2,200 kg. […]
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Safran delivers Earth-to-Space optical comms digital modems
In partnership with CNES and Airbus Defence and Space, and as part of the TELEO project, Safran Data Systems has successfully delivered the first in a series of digital modems […]
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The first ever of a sophisticated commercial communications satellite begins on-orbit testing after reaching geostationary orbit
Inmarsat’s UK-made, I-6 F1 used all electric propulsion to reach geostationary orbit 36,000km above the Earth following launch from Japan in December 2021 Inmarsat, a leader in global, mobile satellite […]
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Gilat + Intelsat’s IFC partnership is expanded
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT) is further expanding their strategic in-flight connectivity (IFC) partnership in Japan with Intelsat. Intelsat is augmenting their commercial and business aviation services […]
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RAL Space works on the MWS Proto Flight Model calibration for the MetOp-SG satellite
ESA’s MetOp Second Generation (SG) series, developed under EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) and integrated by Airbus Defence and Space, will consist of three successive pairs of satellites working […]
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The launch of a supersonic scramjet engine test is completed by JAXA
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, has successfully test-launched a small research rocket that conducted tests for a future, supersonic, scramjet engine. JAXA is researching this engine that uses atmospheric […]
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Thales Alenia Space’s EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS largest geostationary satellite in Europe heads to Kourou launch site
This new-generation satellite, offering a capacity seven times that of its brother satellite EUTELSAT KONNECT launched in 2020, comes with several major firmly committed customers for satellite broadband connectivity, namely […]
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Isar Aerospace to be first privately-funded launch service flying satellites from Guiana Space Centre
The demand for access to space is rising globally. Especially since Soyuz suspended its operations from French Guiana, this step clearly underlines the strength of an independent European space system […]
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