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Replay of the media information session following the 306th ESA Council, held on 16 and 17 March 2022 in Paris, France. Updates were provided on ESA’s main programmes, the outcome of the 16 February Space Summit in Toulouse, upcoming missions for Earth Observation, and for ESA astronauts, the overall rollout of the Director General’s Agenda 2025 on the way to the ESA Ministerial Meeting in November 2022 as well as the implications of the current geopolitical situation on ESA’s activities.

As the pieces of Brazil’s modern space ecosystem slide into place, the country isn’t just now waking up to the value and potential in the space ecosystem. It is entering its “second act.

Sierra Space and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have signed an agreement to study collaboration on technologies to support a planned commercial space station.

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Vienna VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has announced a new space-as-a-service agreement with NorthStar Earth and Space ("NorthStar"), a comprehensive Earth and Space Information Services Platform, to build a constellation of satellites focused on space-situational awareness (SSA) and debris monitoring. The first award within the contract is for three satellites, with pre-agreed options for NorthStar to

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) is significantly ramping up its production of satellite dispensers in Linkoping, Sweden, with the construction of a new facility. It will be used to produce dispensers for satellite constellations. With the new building, Beyond Gravity is doubling its production capacity for satellite dispenser systems and creating 60 new jobs in Linkoping. The groundbreaking

San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Astranis Space Technologies Corp. has announced that the first MicroGEO satellite is ready for launch after successful completion of final testing. Astranis has now completed all major tests necessary for its first MicroGEO spacecraft to be ready to ship to the launch site, including vibration and vibroacoustic tests, final solar array and antenna deployment tests, propulsion system tests, soft

A Long March 4C rocket sent a new classified Yaogan satellite into orbit Thursday, marking China’s sixth orbital launch of 2022.

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022
Crews on the International Space Station (ISS) will cope with almost unprecedented human congestion as 18 astronauts and cosmonauts arrive, work and depart from it over the next month, NASA ISS Operations Integration Manager Dina Contella said. "[The] Soyuz launch on schedule on Friday [is] bringing three Russian crew members to the ISS and then returning [on March 30] with three ISS crew

New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022
The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) has started hiring people for top posts at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to take on new space missions and increase the manufacturing and launch of satellites. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to take its missions to another level with an increase in the number of satellite manufa