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Iridium makes strategic investment in DDK Positioning for enhanced GNSS accuracy
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Iridium Communications has made a strategic investment in DDK Positioning (DDK), an Aberdeen, Scotland based provider of enhanced Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) accuracy solutions.
DDK uses the Iridium network to provide global precision positioning services that can augment GNSS constellations, including GPS and Galileo, to significantly enhance their accuracy for critical indu NanoAvionics aims for 30 percent US-market share for smallsats
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NanoAvionics has laid out its ambitious growth and business development plans for the USA via its existing facility in Columbia, Illinois. The smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator will develop the only satellite manufacturing facility in the state to become its main hub in the US.
Through this hub, NanoAvionics will further grow the portfolio and expand into other locations acr SES Prices EUR 625 Million Hybrid Bond Offering
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SES S.A. announced the successful launch and pricing of a hybrid bond offering in which it has agreed to sell Deeply Subordinated Fixed Rate Resettable Securities for a total amount of EUR 625 million, with a first reset date on 27 August 2026. The notes will bear a Coupon of 2.875% per annum and were priced at 99.409% of their nominal value.
The instrument's credit ratings are expected to Study: Milky Way evolved slowly, peacefully, just like a lot of other galaxies
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It turns out the Milky Way isn't the product of a big, violent collision, new research says.
According to a study published Monday in the journal Astrophyiscal Journal Letters, Earth's home galaxy evolved slowly and relatively peacefully - and researchers say that makes it a pretty average galaxy.
Being inside the subject matter complicates studies of the Milky Way, so astronome UK companies join forces to build revolutionary beam-hopping satellite
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A group of UK space tech companies are developing a new beam-hopping satellite that will allow satellites to switch which part of the world they cover, managing real-time surges in commercial demand or responding to emergencies such as natural disasters, thanks to government funding.
Led by global satellite communications network OneWeb, the industrial partners have received over 32 millio Merida Aerospace plans to begin rocket test launches in 2021
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All eyes in the space launch and logistics industry are now set on Merida Aerospace following the latest announcement of starting rocket test launches in late 2021. With unique expertise, talent, and resources for spacecraft manufacturing, satellite design, satellite data collection, data distribution, and now, spacecraft launch, the company has stepped into the big game and is ready to go all o British spaceflight to become reality as government provides launchpad for spaceports
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Satellites and rockets could launch from UK soil in 2022, with spaceports planned for Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.
Another barrier to space exploration from UK soil has been lifted, with spaceports expected to be in operation from next summer.
Developed with the UK Space Agency and the Civil Aviation Authority, new regulations being laid in Parliament will mean satellites and rocket May's Full Moon comes with Supermoon Eclipse
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As we approach month's end, there is not one, not two, but three celestial events happening with our Moon!
The Moon will be located on Earth's opposite side from the Sun and fully illuminated May 26, 2021, at 6:13 a.m. CDT. This Full Moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Flower Moon because this was the time of year when spring flowers appeared in abundance.
Compared Who's an astronaut as private spaceflight picks up speed?
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As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
It's already a complicated issue and about to get more so as the wealthy snap up spacecraft seats and even entire flights for themselves and their entourages.
Solar storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth
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A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth.
The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn't particularly powerful on the space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth's magnetic field it triggered the strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn't much disruption this time—few people probably even knew it happened—but it served as a reminder the sun has woken from a yearslong slumber.
While invisible and harmless to anyone on the Earth's surface, the geomagnetic waves unleashed by solar storms can cripple power grids, jam radio communications, bathe airline crews in dangerous levels of radiation and knock critical satellites off kilter. The sun began a new 11-year cycle last year and as it reaches its peak in 2025 the specter of powerful space weather creating havoc for humans grows, threatening chaos in a world that has become ever more reliant on technology since the last big storms hit 17 years ago. A recent study suggested hardening the grid could lead to $27 billion worth of benefits to the U.S.