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Intelsat is buying two more OneSat satellites from Airbus Space Systems, operating in multiple frequency bands. They are due to be delivered in 2023. The geostationary satellites will help provide communications services, for example in the aviation connectivity business. Under the terms of the contract, Airbus will deliver an “end-to-end fully integrated solution”, including design and manufacture of the satellites. ...
The ESA has signed a €296.5m contract with France’s Thales Alenia Space to start building the European element for the Lunar Gateway, the planned replacement for the International Space Station. The work will provide the new space exploration facility with communications and refuelling capabilities. Specifically, the European System Providing Refueling, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT), will be a cylindrical module with ...
Virgin Orbit has rescheduled the second test flight of its LauncherOne rocket for this Wednesday, 13 January (not Sunday 10 January, as first announced). The mission will launch the CubeSats of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission. These will be the first payload to be carried by the rocket into space. https://twitter.com/Virgin_Orbit/status/1347244235787968512 The LauncherOne will take off from the ...
Lockheed Martin Space has been awarded a $4.934bn contract for the manufacturing, assembly, integration, test and delivery of three Next Generation Geosynchronous (NGG) Earth orbiting space vehicles (SVs). The company was previously chosen to develop the SVs back in August 2018, receiving $2.9bn. Work is expected to be completed by 31 May 2028, and they will operated by the United ...
The UK’s Space Research and Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) – via funding from the UK Space Agency – is supporting five new space projects involving industry and university collaboration. The universities involved are Edinburgh, Leicester and Southampton, and the startup companies are Absolar, ArchAI, Geospace Agricultural, Redshift, Trade in Space and XCAM. The aims of the projects vary from ...
NASA is backing two heliophysics missions to explore space weather and the Sun, bidding to better understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system: the Solar-C EUVST and EZIE missions. Solar-C EUVST The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) leads the Solar-C EUVST Mission (Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope), which is due to launch in 2026. It will study how ...
Lockheed Martin is buying Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, in a transaction valued at $4.4 billion. The proposed acquisition will add “substantial expertise” in propulsion to Lockheed Martin’s portfolio, says the company, with the deal expected to be completed in the second half of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and approval by Aerojet Rocketdyne’s stockholders. ...
The Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury is to get a satellite propulsion test facility, the Science Minister Amanda Solloway has announced. The new centre is intended to enable companies and academics to test space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft, said the government. It will allow new types of more sustainable ...
Lunar samples successfully collected by China’s Chang’e 5 robotic probe have completed their journey to Earth, according to Chinese media. The rocks and dust from the moon had been previously been delivered from Chang’e 5’s ascender to its reentry capsule. It represents the first mission since 1976 – the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission – to bring lunar samples down ...
NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded three contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three US companies selected to provide the commercial launches are Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black LLC. And the value of their fixed-price contracts, $3.9m, $3.0m and $9.8m, respectively Miniature satellites help provide a low-cost platform for ...
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