Arianespace has signed the first American customer for its Vega small launch vehicle, agreeing to launch several Skybox Imaging satellites in 2016, the launch services company announced March 17.
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News from the ITU Symposium on Small Satellite Regulation
In-depth coverage of the 2015 ITU Symposium on small satellite regulation and communications systems from Prauge from veteran telecom SpaceNews reporter Peter B. de Selding.
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NASA, Lockheed Martin to Celebrate Langley’s Contributions to Orion
Officials who oversaw the design, development and testing of the Orion spacecraft will visit NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to celebrate Langley’s contributions to Orion’s successful December flight […]
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U.S. Air Force Targets 2016 for Outsourcing WGS Operations
The U.S. Air Force hopes to outsource the day-to-day operation of its Wideband Global Satcom communications satellites as early as next year.
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Why LeoSat’s Leaving Internet for the Masses to OneWeb
Kymeta’s ex-CEO talks to SpaceNews about leading LeoSat’s effort to deploy a satellite constellation aimed at serving high-end broadband users.
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Boeing Still Tinkering with Giant Welder for SLS Stages
Boeing is about three months behind schedule on a giant welding tool to be used in the assembly of NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, but the first flight of the massive vehicle remains on track for 2018.
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NanoRacks External Platform Delivered for Launch
NanoRacks is excited to announce that on February 17, 2015, the NanoRacks External Payload Platform (NREP), manufactured by Airbus DS Space Systems Inc., was delivered to Lockheed Martin Cargo Mission […]
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Com Dev Gears Up for Mega-constellaton Opportunity
Com Dev said it had created a separate “Skunk Works”-type engineering team to prepare the company for bids on one or more of the mega-constellations offering satellite Internet services.
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Taking a Closer Look at Orion After Successful Flight Test
Engineers across the country have been busy taking a closer look at NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the data it produced during its successful flight test in December 2014. Inside the […]
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NASA’s Airborne Science Mission Returns to the Skies for Final Flights
NASA’s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) returned to the skies for its fifth and final year of science flights on March 4. The remotely piloted Global Hawk research aircraft took […]
