Leonardo DRS sold its satellite communications business to SES for $450 million after considering bids from several interested buyers.

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During the day, they are working on the Kyiv-headquartered startup’s lightweight solid-fuel rocket. But after hours, Promin Aerospace employees volunteer to protect their homes and families as territorial defense members and humanitarian aid coordinators.

Boeing executives are meeting with startups at the Satellite 2022 conference with an eye toward investment and collaboration.

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Within a decade, satellite mobility providers expect to offer customers a seamless transitions between terrestrial and satellite networks.

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Moscow (AFP) March 23, 2022
The Russian space agency said Wednesday it will insist its international partners pay it in rubles, after President Vladimir Putin said Russia will only accept ruble payments for gas deliveries to "unfriendly countries". "We will also conclude all our external agreements in rubles," the Roscosmos space agency head Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by the official Tass news agency. Hour

Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is open to more acquisitions that vertically integrate its business after buying managed services provider AXESS Networks, according to its CEO Miguel Panduro.

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Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, said companies that manufacture their own satellites buses are bidding much lower prices than those that don't

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United Launch Alliance remains confident that its Vulcan Centaur rocket will make its first launch this year while Blue Origin is pushing back the first flight of its New Glenn vehicle.

NASA announced March 23 that it will support development of a second lander to transport astronauts to and from the lunar surface to provide competition with SpaceX for the later “sustainable” phase of the Artemis program.

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 23, 2021
Meals are set to get a little more exciting at the International Space Station next month as celebrity chef Jose Andres and his company ThinkFoodGroup will send two dinners to space, as a multinational crew joins astronauts already in orbit. Andres is giving two dishes - the popular rice dish Chicken and Mushroom Paella and the pork and tomato offering Secreto de Cerdo with Pisto - to