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The falling costs of space launch and the increasing capabilities of small satellites have enabled the emergence of radically new space architectures--proliferated constellations made up of dozens, hundreds, or even [...]

Introduction 'I watch what our adversaries do. I see them moving quickly into the space domain; they are moving very fast, and I see our country not moving fast, and [...]

COMPANY: Marton Precision Manufacturing PROBLEM: Inconsistencies between CAM program and post-processed G code necessitated dry runs, extra material and extra time SOLUTION: NCSIMUL Machine software from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence RESULTS: [...]

Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. I was standing in the control room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on June 11, 2008, with my fellow engineers and scientists, counting [...]

In a nondescript industrial park in far-north suburban Austin, about 150 people are building spaceships. Covering one wall is a giant portrait of Wernher von Braun, the German rocketry pioneer. [...]

1959-1969: The Space Race 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... liftoff! Scholastic launched its first issue of Science World in September 1959. Over the following decade, one of the major [...]

Everything changed for space-based positioning, navigation and timing around the world on Dec. 23, 2018. Or maybe it didn't. The innovations heralded by the launch of the first GPS III [...]

With the launch of two additional spacecraft in August and October 2017, the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) reached the goal of a four-satellite constellation with the first fully-operational services [...]

In my last column I discussed the new space race by Amazon and SpaceX to launch tens of thousands of satellites to provide internet access from anywhere on earth. This [...]

A new space race is on. Symbolized by the historic landing of China's robotic explorer on the far side of the Moon, the goal this time is to create a [...]

Less than three weeks after its launch, the first GPS III satellite, SVN74, started transmitting navigation signals. SVN74 uses the pseudorandom noise (PRN) code number G04 previously used by the [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Skylo, the first satellite-based IoT solution that turns machines into always-connected smart objects, has announced an exclusive partnership with BSNL, India's government-owned telecommunications provider, the [...]

SpaceX on Sunday successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for its seventh trip to space -- the second individual Falcon 9 rocket to reach [...]

Aevum This week, a company based out of Alabama called Aevum unveiled the (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201203005732/en/Aevum-Rolls-Out-Ravn-X-The-World%E2%80%99s-First-Autonomous-Launch-Vehicle-and-the-Largest-Unmanned-Aircraft-System-UAS) Ravn X, a drone designed to carry and launch satellites into low-orbit. It weighs in at [...]

Satellite laser ranging or SLR has been an indispensable independent tool for validating the precise orbits determined for GNSS satellites using microwave pseudorange and carrierphase observations for several decades. SLR [...]

(https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/11/spacex-ultra-heavy-starship-version-2-could-launch-satellite-version-of-project-orion.html#comments-anchor) (https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/08/spacex-super-heavy-starship-2-0-will-be-8-times-bigger-than-super-heavy-starship.html) Last year, Elon Musk tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters. Nextbigfuture wrote about this conceptual plan last year. The [...]

SpaceX, YouTube Scientists should soon have an easier time studying rising sea levels as (https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-17-new-models-earth-warming-faster-climate-change.html) climate change takes hold. NASA and the ESA have partnered with SpaceX to (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-us-and-european-partners-launch-mission-to-monitor-global-ocean) launch [...]

SpaceX is launching a satellite in November that will track how climate change is causing sea levels to rise. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will take off November 10 from [...]

A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body have a 10% chance of colliding Thursday night, according to satellite-tracking company LeoLabs. It's impossible to intervene to prevent a [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS NASA has announced it will launch the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite on Tuesday, Nov. 10, the agency said. The spacecraft is named in honor [...]

Elon Musk said Tuesday that SpaceX's internet satellite project, Starlink, has now launched enough satellites for its public beta. Musk tweeted that once the most-recently launched satellites are in position, [...]

NASA says 'an unknown piece of space debris' flew uncomfortably close the International Space Station on Tuesday. The debris, which was predicted to zip past the ISS at 6:21 p.m. [...]

NASA says 'an unknown piece of space debris' flew uncomfortably close the International Space Station on Tuesday. The debris, which was predicted to zip past the ISS at 6:21 p.m. [...]

* Enables ground movement monitoring with the help of data obtained through satellite image analysis in a cost and time effective manner * Can be applied in many land risk [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Orbit Communication Systems Inc., (TASE: ORBI), a provider of precision tracking-based communications solutions, has announced Orbit's Tracking and Telemetry Antenna Solution met all performance expectations [...]

Rocket Lab Rocket Lab recently made a successful (https://www.engadget.com/rocket-labs-electron-makes-successful-return-to-flight-after-failed-launch-070809406.html) return to flight and launched a client satellite from its Electron Rocket, but that's not all that happened on the mission. [...]

Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is on a roll this week. After successfully (https://www.engadget.com/rocket-labs-electron-makes-successful-return-to-flight-after-failed-launch-070809406.html) returning to launch following a failure in July, the company announced that it has received FAA clearance [...]

ATLAS Space Operations reported that BlackSky has selected ATLAS to provide telemetry, commanding, and data support for its fifth and sixth satellites in its high-revisit Earth imaging satellite constellation. According [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, has announced that the BSAT-4b satellite, built for Broadcasting Satellite [...]

Byline: posted by Intelsat Intelsat, operator of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, announced the successful launch of Galaxy 30, a geosynchronous communications satellite that will primarily provide [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS SES, the provider of global content connectivity solutions, has announced that American launch provider SpaceX will provide launch capability for up to 3 of its [...]

Amazon has won FCC approval to launch 3,236 Kuiper internet satellites, a $10B project that competes with SpaceX's emerging Starlink network. Amazon has won approval to deploy a NGSO system [...]

U.S. satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems has agreed to invest $50 million in the British government and Bharti-backed consortium buying collapsed satellite operator Oneweb. Hughes previously partnered with OneWeb, [...]

Minotaur product line boosts flawless record to 27 missions Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully launched its Minotaur IV space launch vehicle and placed a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft into orbit [...]

China has indicated enhanced cooperation with Pakistan over BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, Chinese satellite navigation system similar to US's Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's GLONASS, and the European Galileo systems. [...]

The launch engines were developed by Rafael Advanced Systems and Tomer, a government-owned defense company The Space Administration in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), of the Israel [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) launched the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites as part of a US Air Force constellation the company is [...]

Isreal's Defence Minister, Benny Gantz said, 'This is another extraordinary achievement for the defence establishment, for the defence industries as a whole, and for Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in particular.' [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom OneWeb, a UK-based low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite company, has found itself under financial strain since its inception back in 2012. Despite backers including SoftBank, Airbus [...]

SpaceX is just a few days away from Falcon 9's third Starlink internet satellite launch in 22 days, also the second commercial Starlink rideshare mission in two weeks. If successfully, [...]

SpaceX has launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites, growing the constellation by another 58 spacecraft just 10 days after its most recent Starlink launch. That brings the total number [...]

SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 rocket in the span of just four days on Wednesday at 9:25 PM EDT (6:25 PM PDT). This one was carrying 60 more satellites [...]

Byline: Harry Baldock, Total Telecom It has been a busy week for SpaceX, who on Saturday sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, marking the first manned space [...]

Byline: DAN THISDELL First launch validates mobile infrastructure and provides valuable data from 12s flight before booster rocket cut out Virgin Orbit's attempt at a maiden flight of its air-launched [...]

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Byline: Dan Thisdell First attempt to fly Virgin Group's satellite launch system ends after 9s with engine shutdown, but wealth of data and smooth run through ground operations routine offers [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, today launched Intelsat CellBackhaul, an end-to-end managed service that helps Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) [...]