OneWeb to Provide Broadband to Canada, Kazakhstan
Ontario-based Galaxy Broadband signed an US $50 million deal to provide OneWeb’s broadband services across Canada, including the northern territory of Nunavut.
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Companies have raised funding for a reusable spacecraft, a space tug, satellites-as-a-service, hyperspectral imaging spacecraft, and to help keep the lights on.
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Here’s a roundup of the latest personnel changes by Spaceflight Inc., ILS, Redwire, Astra Space and Astroscale.
New Spaceflight Inc. CEO
Spaceflight Inc. has announced that former International Launch Services (ILS) President Tiphaine Louradour will succeed Curt Blake as CEO of the company, which arranges rideshare launches and in-orbit transportation for small satellite operators.
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The Biden Administration has announced that the United States and India will expand cooperation in space to include the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program under which NASA pays companies to deliver payloads to the moon. An Indian astronaut will also undergo spaceflight training at the space agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of S-SPACi.
Spire Global’s (NYS: SPIR) weather data is being integrated into myairops’ aviation software in a deepening of the two companies’ strategic data partnership. The updated software will provide customers with additional situational awareness and data insights.
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SpaceX has postponed a planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with 49 Starlink communications satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base until Monday morning due to the need complete pre-flight checks. The launch is scheduled at 8:34 a.m. PST (11:34 a.m. EST/16:34 UTC), with a backup launch opportunity later in the day at 12:30 p.m. PST (3:30 p.m. EST/20:31 UTC). SpaceX will webcast the launch.
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Intuitive Machines Announces Agreement to Deliver AstroForge’s Asteroid Mining Payload
Houston-based Intuitive Machines, LLC has signed an agreement to deliver AstroForge’s Brokkr-2 spacecraft to deep space to observe an asteroid the California company is targeting for mining operations. Brokkr-2 is expected to launch during Intuitive Machines’ second lunar mission in the second half of 2023.
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There’s good news and bad news in the latest scientific assessment of Earth’s vital ozone layer, which helps to protect life on Earth by absorbing the Sun’s ultraviolet light.
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China had a highly successful 2022 in space as it completed initial construction of its Tiangong space station, launched two crews to occupy it, and set a new national record with 64 launch attempts.
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Rocket Lab completed its first launch from U.S. soil as an Electron rocket roared off its launch pad in Virginia and placed three signal collection satellites into orbit.
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Down at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX completed a “flight-like wet dress rehearsal” by filling Starship and its Super Heavy Booster with propellants for the first time.
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When Shri S. Somanath assumed the chairmanship of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) last January, he took over a space agency that had been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. ISRO conducted only four launches in 2020-21, one of which failed. The pandemic had wrecked an ambitious plan to launch Indian astronauts into orbit before the 75th anniversary of the nation’s independence from Britain in August 2022.
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