New York NY (SPX) Dec 15, 2022
MetTel reports that its Customer Innovation Labs, the research and development unit of MetTel, has deployed its Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) service using the VMware SD-WAN solution over SpaceX's Starlink satellite service. These technologies far outpace the growth of the overall IT market which Gartner predicts at 5.1% year-over-year in 2023. According to the 2022 Gartner M

Vandenberg CA AFB (SPX) Dec 12, 2022
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is one step closer to launching so it can track water on more than 90% of Earth's surface. The SWOT satellite, or the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, is now encapsulated in its payload fairing in preparation for launch. Technicians at the SpaceX processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California complete

Paris, France (SPX) Dec 12, 2022
A special passenger crossed under the Channel this week: the MicroCarb instrument, en-route to be integrated with its satellite platform at RAL Space (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) in Oxfordshire, England. MicroCarb is a small satellite designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)-the most important greenhouse gas - on a global scale, to better understand the impact of CO2 p

Paris, France (SPX) Dec 14, 2022
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be integrated onto the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite next year. The instrument will continuously monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols from geostationary orb

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Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 Imagine requesting an air taxi by app, like you do now with Uber or Lyft, to travel to your local airport - you could be soaring above road traffic and arrive much faster than driving. Aviation industry creatives are already designing rideshare air services between home and the airport. New remotely piloted and autonomous aircraft will make air travel mor

Making satellite navigation sufficiently accurate by improving its integrity for aircraft to rely on, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System, EGNOS, is today employed by hundreds of airports across our continent, guiding airliners down through all weathers to the point where pilots gain sight of runways to initiate landing. Now an upgraded version of the system, EGNOS v3, has passed its Critical Design Review – putting it on track to enter service by the second part of the decade.

Dublin, the capital and largest city of Ireland, is featured in this image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2.

The first Electron launch from Wallops will mark what spaceport officials hope is the start of a new era of increased launch activity there.

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British cybersecurity software developer Arqit is looking to sell a partly built satellite after scrapping plans for a space-based quantum encryption network.

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Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisitions and integration, wants acquisition officers to avoid cost-plus contracts and buy satellites at fixed prices

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