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.
European Service Module, Orion, Moon, Earth
Thursday, 01 December 2022 06:22
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European Service Module, Orion, Moon, Earth France joins ASAT testing moratorium
Thursday, 01 December 2022 02:26
The French government said Nov. 29 it will join the United States and several other countries in a pledge not to conduct anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons tests that can leave hazardous debris in orbit.
Wide-Field-of-View missile warning satellite transmits first images
Wednesday, 30 November 2022 20:31
The U.S. Space Force has received initial images from a new missile-warning satellite launched in July.
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Hiber demands Astrocast cash after failed acquisition
Wednesday, 30 November 2022 19:20
Dutch remote monitoring specialist Hiber is demanding $1.5 million from cash-strapped Astrocast after plans to be sold to the company ran out of time, according to the Swiss small satellite operator.
OroraTech raises funding for additional thermal mapping satellites
Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:39
OroraTech, a German company developing a constellation of thermal mapping satellites for tracking wildfires and other applications, has raised an additional 15 million euros ($15.4 million) to support work on future satellites.
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