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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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OneWeb has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The AST Group (AST) — by working together, AST and OneWeb will offer fixed-land and maritime customers access to OneWeb’s fast, […]
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Another group of SpaceX Starlinks were sent skyward… On Wednesday, April 7 at 12:34 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral […]
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NanoAvionics has been selected by OQ Technology to build the company’s MACSAT satellite mission aiming to demonstrate 5G Internet-of-Things service from LEO. NanoAvionics will build and test a 6U smallsat […]
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The German Space Agency at DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt / German Aerospace Center) has selected Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) iSpaceTM command and control system. The iSpace system […]
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Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) successfully launched their End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission. This marks the start of the world’s first commercial mission to prove the core technologies necessary […]
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ABL Space Systems will provide Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] with routine launches of RS1 rockets (pictured above) to accelerate payload technologies into orbit. Lockheed Martin will purchase as many as […]
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