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Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review of NOAA’s Space Weather Monitoring Satellite

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BROOMFIELD, Colo. — June 14, 2022 — Ball Aerospace successfully completed critical design review (CDR) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft. Ball will now proceed with production, integration and test of the spacecraft. Expected to launch in 2025, SWFO-L1 will collect solar wind data and coronal…

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Hughes Announces Distribution Agreement with OneWeb Technologies

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Turnkey managed LEO services available now to DoD for single- and multi-transport SATCOM implementations worldwide Germantown, MD, April 5, 2022 – Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks for 50 years, today announced it signed a distribution agreement with OneWeb Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of OneWeb, to deliver managed…

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SpinLaunch and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement to Test Innovative Mass Accelerator Launch System

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NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test launch characteristics of its low cost, high cadence launch system LONG BEACH, CA — April 6, 2022 — SpinLaunch has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System…

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Australian Firms Team Up to Deliver High-Resolution Hyperspectral Earth Observation Microsatellites

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, USA, 5 April 2022 –LatConnect 60 (LC60), an Earth observation and data fusion company based in Perth, Australia, has signed an agreement to work with Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland to build and launch the first microsatellite in a planned high-resolution hyperspectral imaging constellation. The smart satellites will be placed in 30-degree…

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Amazon Secures Up to 83 Launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance for Project Kuiper

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Agreements comprise the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history, providing heavy-lift capacity for Project Kuiper to deploy majority of its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 3,236 satellites Launches planned with Arianespace’s Ariane 6, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rockets; Beyond Gravity to build low-cost, scalable dispenser system…

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Teledyne, Sierra Space and Nissan Designing Next-Generation Lunar Terrain Vehicle for NASA

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 5, 2022 — Teledyne Brown Engineering announced today, at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, CO, that it is leading a team including partners Sierra Space and Nissan North America, to design the crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that will support future exploration on the moon. With almost seven…

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Mercury Announces New Line of Drop-in Radiation-Tolerant Power Supplies for the Space Market

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Standardized ultra-compact FPGA power module enables the most demanding on-orbit processing ANDOVER, Mass. — April 4, 2022 — Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, today announced the new RH5210 radiation-tolerant power module, the first in a series of ultra-compact radiation-hardened multi-output power supplies designed…

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Italy at 37th Space Symposium

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For the first time, Italy will be present with a National Pavilion showcasing 12 leading companies The Italian Trade Agency, the Governmental Agency that supports the business development of Italian companies abroad and promotes the attraction of foreign investment in Italy, is proud to announce its first-ever cohort participation at the upcoming 37th Space Symposium…

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SwRI’s New Space System Integration Facility Supports Smallsat Development

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San Antonio, TX — April 4, 2022 — Southwest Research Institute has added a new, 74,000-square-foot Space System Integration Facility to its San Antonio headquarters. The SwRI facility can rapidly respond to customers needing to design, assemble and test spacecraft, particularly small satellites for emerging “new space” applications, including support for the commercial and U.S.…

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Leaders to Sign First-Ever Space Industry Pledge on Diversity at 37th Space Symposium

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — March 31, 2022 — Next week, at the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium, twenty-one space companies will come together as the charter signatories of a first-of-its-kind industry pledge to advance diversity across our collective workforce in the years ahead. The “Space Workforce 2030” pledge commits these companies to annual reporting of data…

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