EgyptSat-2 is the result of a cooperative agreement between Egypt and China, with a grant of $45m from the Chinese government.  ...

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SatellitePro ME

Published: 12 July 2020

Recently we announced that AImotive, an automotive supplier of automated driving technologies, and C3S, the satellite and space technology provider, will collaborate on a ...

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SpaceWatch.Global

Published: 12 July 2020

WASHINGTON — NASA announced July 9 two new directives regarding planetary protection for missions to the moon and Mars that implement recommendations of an independent review board last year. The two directives, announced by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during a ...

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SpaceNews

Published: 11 July 2020

Hours after calling off a launch of a different rocket from a nearby launch pad, SpaceX's launch team loaded a Falcon 9 rocket with propellant Saturday and fired its nine main engines on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, setting ...

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Spaceflight Now

Published: 11 July 2020

Loft Orbital is working under a contract from SSCI, which received a DARPA contract to fly a demonstration of the Blackjack Pit Boss mission system. WASHINGTON — Loft Orbital’s YAM-3 satellite — scheduled to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare ...

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SpaceNews

Published: 11 July 2020

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SpaceQ

Published: 11 July 2020

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speaks at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s ...

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GeekWire

Published: 11 July 2020

NASA's Perseverance rover, contained inside its aeroshell for a searing plunge into the Martian atmosphere next year, has been cocooned inside the payload shroud of its Atlas 5 launcher and mated with the rocket ahead of liftoff from Cape Canaveral scheduled for ...

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Spaceflight Now

Published: 10 July 2020

WASHINGTON — Program delays have forced Eumetsat to reserve a pair of Ariane 6 rockets for two European weather satellites originally anticipated to launch on Ariane 5 rockets.  Eumetsat had signed a contract with Arianespace in 2015 to launch two ...

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SpaceNews

Published: 10 July 2020

This summer, Northrop Grumman is playing an important role in a historic phase of Mars exploration. Northrop Grumman’s LN-200S inertial measurement unit (IMU) will provide extended life inertial navigation for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Perseverance Mars Rover, a mission that will ...

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Satellite Evolution Group

Published: 10 July 2020