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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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“The good news about this approach is this really fits my priority of speed, speed and speed,” Frank Calvelli, space acquisition czar at the Department of the Air Force, said of the plan to have NRO take the lead with Space Force oversight …
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water vapor around a distant rocky planet located 26 light-years away. “The water vapor could indicate the presence of an atmosphere around the extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, a discovery that could b…
Mynaric [MYNA] has a new customer — Loft Federal, the government subsidiary of Loft Orbital, which ordered Mynaric laser terminals for its work on theSpace Development Agency’s (SDA) Experimental Testbed. The […]
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