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Astranis has announced a $250 million Series C financing round, valuing the company at $1.4 billion. The financing was led by funds managed by BlackRock, with significant participation from new […]
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HawkEye 360 Inc. has secured $55 million in additional funding, bringing the total raised by the firm to more than $155 million — the Series C round was led by […]
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Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has introduced a new line of rapid, integrated and affordable tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites. These satellites, based on Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 mid-size […]
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The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking industry feedback on the design and development of mission-capable space vehicles for the National Defense Space Architecture’s (NDAS) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), […]
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-15 flight is targeting liftoff on Wednesday, April 14, from Launch Site One in West Texas. The launch window opens at 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC. Building on the incremental and consecutive mission successes for the vehicle over the […]
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Telenor Satellite has announced the successful docking of Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 (Mission Extension Vehicle) with the company’s THOR 10-02 satellite. This represents the start of a new era for satellite […]
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Twenty-five years ago, on April 9, 1996, a combined Russian, American and European team made space history with the first launch of a Western satellite onboard a Russian rocket. The […]
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Rocket Lab‘s next mission will find the company attempting to bring their rocket back from space, slowing the Electron launch vehicle down from speeds of >Mach 8 as it re-enter’s […]
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China successfully launched an experiment satellite into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Friday, April 9,2021. The satellite, the third of the […]
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ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by GI Partners in an all-cash transaction that values ORBCOMM at approximately $1.1 billion, including net debt. […]
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