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The Norwegian Space Agency has announced the successful launch of the NorSat-3 maritime tracking smallsat, built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) in Toronto, successfully launched on April 28, 2012, aboard […]
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NanoAvionics has successfully established communications with “Bravo,” the second smallsat the company built and launched for Aurora Insight, a U.S. business analytics company for the wireless industry. “Bravo” was sent […]
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On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 10:50 pm local time (01:50 UTC on Thursday, April 29), a Vega launch vehicle operated by Arianespace lifted off successfully from the Guiana Space […]
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SES has signed agreements with key infrastructure service providers around the world to build its eight, initial, O3b mPOWER satellite ground stations. Construction has already started on these advanced technology […]
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On Wednesday, April 28 at 11:44 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the […]
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Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has entered into an agreement with OneWeb for the subscription of a c.24% equity stake, becoming a leading shareholder of the company alongside the UK […]
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OHB Cosmos International Launch Services GmbH, a company of OHB SE’s newly established business segment OHB DIGITAL, as well as LuxSpace, the group’s Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer, have both signed a […]
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Liftoff occurred from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, […]
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Performed on Monday, April 26, at precisely 07:14 a.m. local time at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome (22:14 a.m. on April 25, UTC), Soyuz Flight ST31 orbited 36 new OneWeb satellites. That […]
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Flight proven and showing how SpaceX’s hardware reusability can cost-effectively enhance the space program, April 23rd witnessed the SpaceX and NASA launch of the Dragon capsule via a Falcon 9 […]
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