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Sidus Space secures new agreement for LizzieSat data sales
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Sidus Space, a Space and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) provider listed on NASDAQ (SIDU), has successfully inked a new deal to commercialize the data anticipated from its forthcoming LizzieSat satellite array. The company, known for its diversified space services, plans to employ a suite of instruments on the LizzieSat satellites, designed to capture a wide array of data through hyperspectral, multisp Planet Labs advances satellite communication with NASA CSP ground tests
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In an innovative stride within the aerospace industry, Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has recently concluded a pivotal phase in their collaboration under NASA's Communications Services Project (CSP). This marks a significant milestone as they work to refine inter-satellite communication technologies, specifically satellite-to-satellite links.
As a key player in the domain of daily Earth data a Ovzon receives follow-on order for SATCOM-as-a-Service valued at 1.8 MUSD
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Ovzon has received a 1.8 MUSD follow-on order to provide three months of SATCOM-as-a-Service in Europe with an estimated start date in December 2023.
This award is a follow-on order to the 4.8 MUSD contract from April of this year from an existing European customer. The April 2023 contract included both Ovzon SATCOM-as-a-Service and Ovzon On-The-Move (OTM) terminals.
Ovzon's SATCOM-a Momentus Advances Vigoride-7 Testing, Aiming for 2024 SpaceX Launch
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Momentus Inc., the U.S.-based commercial space firm known for its satellite transportation and in-space services, has achieved a significant milestone with the completion of vibration testing on its Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle. This critical phase of testing is an essential step toward its anticipated launch aboard the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission, earmarked for no earlier than March 202 ESA's Proba-3 Formation Flying Mission Proceeds to Final Checks
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) ambitious Proba-3 mission has recently completed a critical environmental testing campaign, marking a significant milestone on its path toward a 2024 launch. Conducted in Ottobrunn, Germany, these tests have proven that the mission's equipment can endure the harsh conditions of launch and the extreme thermal environment of outer space. The comprehensive campaign Endeavour assembly at Science Center starts with lifting 52-ton rockets into place
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The space shuttle Endeavour's twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft's aft skirts in a first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.
The two solid rocket motors—each weighing 104,000 pounds and the size of a Boeing 757 fuselage—were transported by truck in early October from Mojave Air and Space Port to the science center in South Los Angeles.
"It's actually pretty exciting. This is the first big tall pieces of the stack going into the building," California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph said. Each solid rocket motor measures 116 feet and makes up most of the length of the 149-foot solid rocket boosters. At liftoff, the white solid rocket boosters were set underneath Endeavour's wings and produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff.
On Monday, the motors will be moved from their current location—next to the museum's dining terraces—a few hundred feet closer to the construction site.
The first significant action begins Tuesday, when the science center will lift the first solid rocket motor into place.
Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age 87
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In US capital, selfies with asteroid hinting at Earth's origins
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In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel.
The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which scientists are studying in the hope of discovering if asteroids actually brought the building blocks of life - carbon and water - to Earth.
Exhibited to the pub ESA's Hera mission is bringing two CubeSats along. They'll be landing on Dimorphos
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In about one year from now, the European Space Agency will launch its Hera mission. Its destination is the asteroid Didymos, and it'll be the second human spacecraft to visit the 390-meter chunk of rock. NASA's DART mission crashed a kinetic impactor into Didymos' tiny moonlet Dimorphos as a test of planetary defense.
Hera will perform a follow-up investigation of the binary asteroid to measure the size and morphology of the impact crater on Dimorphos. To help it along, it's taking two tiny CubeSats that will land on Dimorphos.
It might seem strange that two tiny satellites will perform landings on an asteroid. But Hera is designed to fulfill different goals. First of all, it's part of the ESA's Planetary Defense program.
NASA Goddard's 'spiky' antenna chamber: Signaling success for 50 years
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On any given day, NASA's networks may communicate with more than 100 space missions. Whether the mission keeps the lines of communication open with orbiting astronauts or peers deep into the cosmos, those dozens of satellites all have one thing in common: each needs an antenna. Without one, NASA missions and their discoveries simply would not be possible.
To ensure those antennas are up to the challenges of spaceflight, for most that means rigorous testing on the ground in a simulated space environment. The Goddard ElectroMagnetic Anechoic Chamber (GEMAC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been an integral antenna proving ground for more than 50 years.
