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Aistech Space SL, a high-resolution thermal imaging service provider, has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd, a satellite and in-orbit service provider, to fly its first Guardian mission scheduled for launch in Q4 2021 onboard a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission.

ESA’s Euclid mission has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space.

One of the two planned Soyuz-ST rocket launches this year from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana has been postponed until 2022, two sources was quoted as saying by Sputnik news agency.

Eutelsat Communications confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, preliminary and non-binding proposal from Patrick Drahi in connection with a potential transaction on all of the company’s share capital.

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Spire Global, Inc. announced a new partnership with SpaceChain, a space-as-a-service solutions provider developing the world’s first decentralised satellite infrastructure (DSI). Together, Spire and SpaceChain are launching a mission to demonstrate the feasibility of blockchain technology computation in space and resolve land-based centralised infrastructure issues.

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China will enter a new era of solar exploration with the satellite’s launch, said the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

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A recently established collaboration between more than twenty European space sector companies has been assembled in response to a European Commission (EC) call for tenders entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space based connectivity.”

AAC Clyde Space has been selected by OHB Sweden to deliver core avionics worth approx. €797,000 to ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite. The order has been preceded by a tightening of the original requirements of the systems.