Blue Origin carried out the first flight of a new model of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Oct. 23, a mission the company called “nominal and on target” despite going to a slightly lower altitude than past flights. The post Blue Origin conducts first flight of second human-rated New Shepard appeared first on SpaceNews.
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The ripples from Intelsat’s $3.1 billion sale to rival satellite operator SES are disrupting and delaying deals for suppliers and other companies further downstream, according to finance experts on an Oct. 22 Satellite Innovation panel. The post SES-Intelsat combination’s far-reaching impact on deal-making appeared first on SpaceNews.
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The company is building two satellites for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program The post Space Force awards Northrop Grumman $1.8 billion contract extension for missile warning satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.
Companies will compete for space missions under an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract model The post Space Development Agency selects 19 companies for low-Earth orbit demonstration program appeared first on SpaceNews.
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The agreement is for six missile-tracking satellites that will operate in medium Earth orbit The post Millennium Space secures $386 million contract for missile-defense satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Given its dominance in the launch market and Starlink’s explosive growth in satellite communications, what impact will SpaceX have on the optical terminal business? At the […] The post Is SpaceX poised to shake up optical terminal sales? appeared first on SpaceNews.
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HELSINKI — India’s Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample return mission will target a landing between 85 and 90 degrees latitude in the southern hemisphere of the moon, and follow up with a […] The post India to target moon’s south pole with sample return mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Newly announced reforms promise to ease restrictions on space technologies but strict controls remain on cutting-edge synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites The post U.S. eases export rules for space tech, but high-resolution radar satellites remain under tight control appeared first on SpaceNews.
A recent opinion piece in SpaceNews, How countries can increase their participation in the global space economy, highlighted six areas — leadership and collaboration, funding and revenue, regulatory frameworks, technology […] The post Winning hearts and minds to further the global space economy appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Telesat has ordered 127 gateway antennas from South Korea’s Intellian for its upcoming Lightspeed low Earth orbit broadband network, the Canadian geostationary satellite operator announced Oct. 23. The post Telesat contracts Intellian for Lightspeed LEO gateways appeared first on SpaceNews.
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