Eutelsat selects Thales Alenia Space to build a new flexible software-defined satellite
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) (Paris:ETL) has selected Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67 % and Leonardo 33 %) to build a next-generation highly flexible, software-defined satellite (SDS).
The Flexsat (for flexible satellite) will be based on Thales Alenia Space's cutting-edge 'Space Inspire' (INstant SPace In-orbit REconfiguration) product line, enabling seamless reconfigurati Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth's surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates of up to 100 gigabits per second - 100 times faster than the fastest internet speeds in most cities - via an optical communication link to a ground-based receiver in Califo ONERA acquires two satellite platforms from NanoAvionics for its nanosat FlyLab mission
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
French aerospace lab ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales) has signed a contract with NanoAvionics, a space mission integrator and satellite manufacturer, for the procurement of two 8U and 6U nanosat platforms, dedicated to ONERA 's FlyLab mission.
The contract includes the supply of all the components necessary for the operation of the satellites, but also the in Geologist studies asteroids and moondust to decode the history of the solar system
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
Michelle Thompson is a geologist. But while "geo" means earth, she studies things that are decidedly unearthly, or at least extraterrestrial: the moon and asteroids.
"I study space weathering: how space environments affect tiny mineral particles on planetary surfaces," said Thompson, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue University Kayhan Space awarded grant to develop autonomous collision avoidance capabilities in space
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
Kayhan Space, a leading provider of spaceflight safety solutions, has been awarded the largest in the latest series of advanced industry grants from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) to accelerate development of coordinated autonomous satellite collision avoidance capabilities for its Pathfinder Max software platform.
Kayhan Space has been awarded AWS successfully runs AWS compute and machine learning services on an orbiting satellite
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
at AWS re:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space experiment. The experiment, conducted over the past 10 months in low Earth orbit (LEO), was designed to test a faster, more efficient method for customers to collect and analyze valuable space data dir AST SpaceMobile announces pricing of upsized $75M public offering of Class A common stock
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has announced the pricing of its previously announced public offering of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Class A Common Stock"). The Company has agreed to sell 13,636,364 shares of Class A Common Stock at a price to the public of $5.50 per share. The Company has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additiona Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus program with Vega C
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
On November 29, 2022, Arianespace announced having signed with the European Commission (Directorate General for Defence, Industry and Space), a contract for the procurement of five launch services with Vega C for the Copernicus component of the European Union's (EU) Space Programme.
"I would like to thank the European commission, especially the DG DEFIS teams, along with ESA, for continuin Arianespace Ariane 6 to launch Intelsat satellites
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
Arianespace signed a contract with longtime customer Intelsat to launch two satellite payloads, IS-41 and IS-44, using the heavy-lift Ariane 64 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in 2025. This agreement repurposes a previous launch contract and adds one additional satellite.
"We are honored, yet again, by our faithful longtime partner Intelsat with another significant contract," said NASA's Orion capsule to leave distant retrograde orbit, return to Earth
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
NASA's Orion space capsule, which is in day 15 of its Artemis 1 test flight, is scheduled to leave its current distant retrograde orbit on Thursday, as the spacecraft begins the process of returning home to Earth.
Artemis 1 mission management leaders provided a preview on Wednesday, from Johnson Space Center, of the upcoming maneuver that will ultimately send the test flight past the mo SiriusXM commissions Maxar to build two satellites
Thursday, 01 December 2022 11:35
Maxar Technologies and SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) have announced a new agreement commissioning Maxar to build and deliver two new geostationary communications satellites for SiriusXM. The SXM-11 and -12 satellite orders increase the total number of spacecraft in development for SiriusXM by Maxar to four, following the 2021 agreement for the construction of SXM-9 and -10.
"This investment reaf Renewed support for ESA innovation at Paris Ministerial
Thursday, 01 December 2022 09:00
Member State delegations pledged a record-breaking €16.9 billion budget for ESA at last week's Council at Ministerial Level in Paris, including renewed support for dedicated R&D programmes employed by ESA’s Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality to invent the future in space.
Pillars of Creation (NIRCam and MIRI composite image)
Thursday, 01 December 2022 07:57
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Pillars of Creation (NIRCam and MIRI composite image) SpaceX again postpones Japanese moon lander launch
Thursday, 01 December 2022 07:28
SpaceX on Wednesday postponed the launch of the world's first private lander to the Moon, a mission undertaken by Japanese firm ispace.
A Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to blast off at 3:37 am (0837 GMT) on Thursday from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida, but SpaceX said further checks on the vehicle had led to a delay.
"After further inspections of the launch vehicle and data review, we're standing down from tomorrow's launch of @ispace_inc's HAKUTO-R Mission 1; a new target launch date will be shared once confirmed," the firm tweeted.
Until now, only the United States, Russia and China have managed to put a robot on the lunar surface.
The mission by ispace is the first of a program called Hakuto-R.
The lander would touch down around April 2023 on the visible side of the Moon, in the Atlas crater, according to a company statement.
The delay came after the launch had already been postponed by a day due to the need for additional pre-flight checks, SpaceX and ispace said on Wednesday.
Measuring just over 2 by 2.5 meters, the lander carries on board a 10-kilogram rover named Rashid, built by the United Arab Emirates.
At NASA, France's Macron and US vow strong space cooperation
Thursday, 01 December 2022 07:00
Paris and Washington pledged Wednesday to reenforce their cooperation in space, particularly on exploration and climate, during a visit by France's Emmanuel Macron to NASA headquarters alongside US Vice President Kamala Harris.
The French president, on a state visit to the United States, highlighted the American lunar program Artemis, whose first uncrewed test mission launched in mid-November with participation of the European Space Agency (ESA).
"We are very keen" to participate, he told Harris, adding with a smile: "It's very important for us, as long as you can propose a French leader to fly to the Moon quite rapidly," he said, in a nod to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who joined Macron for the NASA visit.