Intelsat/SKY Perfect JSAT Corp expand high-throughput inflight connectivity network over Asia
Friday, 04 February 2022 04:51
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Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), has expanded its partnership with SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation to use its next-generation JCSAT-1C high-throughput satellites (HTS) over Japan and Asia, one of the fastest-growing markets for air travel. The partnership benefits both airlines and passengers SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida
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SpaceX launched 49 of its own Starlink broadband communications satellites from Florida on Thursday afternoon in a mission delayed by over a week.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:13 p.m. EST into a sunny, warm sky from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The Starlink launch had been postponed repeatedly as the company dealt with adverse weather and other delays to launch an Defence Procurement Minister launches Defence Space Strategy
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It's a huge pleasure to be here today on the next step in our execution of the Integrated Review, the Defence Command Paper and Defence and Security Industrial Strategy.
A lot has happened in Defence in the last year. From assisting in homeland resilience in issues as varied at vaccine delivery to Heavy Goods Vehicle support to the largest Royal Navy deployment in decades making our positi UK cutting-edge space defence backed by 1.4 billion pounds
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The UK will invest 1.4 billion pounds to bolster our national interests in space, as part of the first Defence Space Strategy published this week.
Following publication of the National Space Strategy in September last year, the Defence Space Strategy (DSS) outlines how Defence will protect the UK's national interests in space in an era of ever-growing threats, stimulating growth across the Webb team begins aligning the telescope
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This week, the three-month process of aligning the telescope began - and over the last day, Webb team members saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the entire telescope and were detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. This milestone marks the first of many steps to capture images that are at first unfocused and use them to slowly fine-tune the telescope. This Satellites Offer New Capabilities and Complexities for 5G Networks
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New advances in 5G standards are creating opportunities to integrate non-terrestrial networks (NTN) into an interoperable, standardized wireless experience across the entire globe. Today, 5G Americas, the voice of 5G and 4G LTE for the Americas, announced the release of its latest white paper covering the role of 5G in satellite networks entitled, "5G and Non-Terrestrial Networks."
Said Ch Satellogic Announces Strategic Partnership With Palantir Technologies
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Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, has announced a new partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR), a leading builder of operating systems for the modern enterprise. Under the agreement, Satellogic will leverage Palantir's Foundry platform, accelerating business processes, rapid image product delivery, AI model training, and enterprise-wid New Center for Satellite Constellation Interference
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At a press conference today, NSF's NOIRLab announced that it has been selected, along with the SKA Observatory (SKAO), by the International Astronomical Union to host the new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. The center coordinates collaborative multidisciplinary international efforts with institutions and individuals and works acr Space Force communications satellite WGS-11 clears critical design review
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The WGS-11+ Wideband Global Satcom satellite that Boeing developed for the U.S. Space Force passed a critical design review and will transition to production.
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SpaceX launches latest Starlink batch ahead of premium service plan
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SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites Feb. 3 as it prepares to offer a faster, more expensive premium service for the broadband network.
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India targets August launch for Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
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Delayed two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chandrayaan-3 mission will mark India’s second attempt to land on the moon.
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Webb Quest: Mind-blowing mission to the early Universe
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Embark on a mission with ESA astronomers Mark McCaughrean and Giovanna Giardino to learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope and the early Universe. This programme is suitable for primary and secondary students. Join the quest!
Find more educational resources, videos and links about astronomy on ESA Education's Teach with Astronomy webpage.
Quantum Space unveils plans for cislunar platforms
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A startup led by a former acting administrator of NASA has announced plans to develop platforms serviced by robotic vehicles in cislunar space to support a range of applications.
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Leftover SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage will impact the lunar surface in early March
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The moon is set to gain one more crater. A leftover SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage will impact the lunar surface in early March, marking the first time that a human-made debris item unintentionally reaches our natural satellite.
In 2015 the Falcon 9 placed NOAA's DSCOVR climate observatory around the L1 Lagrange point, one of five such gravitationally-stable points between Earth and the Sun. Having reached L1, around 1.5 million km from Earth, the mission's upper stage ended up pointed away from Earth into interplanetary space.
This rendered a deorbit burn to dispose of it in our planet's atmosphere impractical, and the upper stage also lacked sufficient velocity to escape the Earth-moon system. Instead it was left in a chaotic Sun-orbiting orbit near the two bodies.
Now credible public estimates forecast its impact with the moon on 4 March at 12:25:39 UTC at a point on the lunar far side near the equator.
Space Force extends L3Harris’ contract to upgrade space tracking system
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The U.S. Space Force has extended L3Harris’ contract to develop a software platform used to monitor satellites and debris in orbit, the company announced Feb. 3.
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