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DoD awards $15 million Defense Production Act contract to LeoLabs

DoD said this agreement is to "ensure the continued viability of space surveillance capability" in the U.S. industrial base. WASHINGTON — The Defense Department announced on July 10 it has awarded LeoLabs, a provider of space surveillance data services, a $15 ...

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SES Inks Video Services Deal with BBC Studios 

Photo: SES BBC Studios (BBCS) and its subsidiary UKTV have awarded SES a multi-year contract to manage the playout and distribution of over 50 linear channels, ...

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First Flight of New Chinese Rocket Fails 

Kuaizhou-11 launch fails on July 10. Photo: China Central Television (CCTV)/China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) via SciNews The first flight of the Chinese rocket Kuaizhou-11 carrier ...

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Report: SpaceX sees EXIM Bank as ‘Critical’ to Winning Global Market

SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Photo: Pixabay. United States space companies are hoping to get more help against foreign competitors ...

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Intermap Technologies Partners With Zipline for African Medical Operations

A Zipline drone. Photo: Zipline Intermap Technologies revealed a new contract with Zipline to deliver geospatial Elevation-as-a-Service to support their expanding medical operations in Africa, including on-demand emergency ...

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New Chinese satellite launcher fails on first flight

The first flight of the new Chinese Kuaizhou 11 solid-fueled rocket failed to place two small satellites into orbit Friday, and Chinese state media said the cause of the malfunction is under investigation. ...

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Reaction Dynamics receives $1.5 million from Canadian Space Agency for rocket engine development

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Cost growth prompts changes to Europa Clipper instruments

WASHINGTON — Cost overruns on three instruments for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft led NASA to consider dropping them from the mission and ultimately requiring significant changes to some of them. At a July 9 briefing to the Committee on Astrobiology ...

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Op-ed | U.S. satellites increasingly vulnerable to China’s ground-based lasers

Of the world’s 50 satellite laser ranging stations, five fixed stations are in Shanghai, Changchun, Beijing, Wuhan and Kuming The Defense Intelligence Agency warned in January 2019 that China likely will field in 2020 a ground-based laser weapon that can counter ...

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AISSat-1 marks the first NewSpace decade for Norway

KONGSBERG is celebrating 10 successful years since the AISSat-1 AIS-receiving satellite, complete with its KONGSBERG AIS payload, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on July 12, 2010.The game-changing AISSat-1, the first operational AIS receiver in space, is financed ...

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