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For the first time, astronomers have observed a star swallowing a planet. The findings have been published in the journal Nature. MIT News reports: The planetary demise appears to have taken place in our own galaxy, some 12,000 light-years away, near t…
In a rare tour of the GPS ops floor, Lt. Col. Robert Wray, commander of the Space Force’s 2nd Operations Squadron responsible for GPS operations, described the mission and why timing, more than anything, is critical.
Lockheed Martin [LMT] last week said its Space segment will reorganize its business lines in the coming months, going from five to three lines to better keep up with customer […]
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In recent decades, NASA has sent large spacecraft — Galileo and Cassini, respectively — to fly around Jupiter and Venus to explore the dozens of moons that exist in those planetary systems. The spacecraft investig…
New geospatial satellite startup Nuview emerged from stealth mode on Thursday, with plans to build the first commercial LiDAR satellite constellation. LiDAR — which stands for Light Detection and Ranging — collects […]
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Raytheon Technologies [RTX] has tapped CesiumAstro to supply phased array communications payloads to support its contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro will […]
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The Department of the Air Force’s uniformed leaders laid out two system examples of increased costs associated with a possible shift in those systems from the 3.1-3.45 GHz S-band to […]
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Luxembourg / Madrid / Munich / Paris, May 2. A group of European space and telecommunications players have come together to form a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s call for tender related to the future European satellite constellatio…
Private equity firm Advent International has closed its acquisition of Maxar, including a minority investment from British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Maxar will no longer be a publicly traded company and its stock […]
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Two U.S. Senators have reintroduced legislation to help protect commercial satellite operators from cyber attacks — an issue that has gained in prominence after the hack on Viasat’s [VSAT] KA-SAT network […]
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