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Viasat Inc. announced it is joining the Paris Peace Forum’s ‘Net Zero Space’ Initiative in tackling the growing space debris crisis in the shared orbits closest to Earth.

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ExxonMobil and Scepter, Inc. have agreed to work together to deploy advanced satellite technology and proprietary data processing platforms to detect methane emissions at a global scale. The agreement has the potential to redefine methane detection and mitigation efforts and could contribute to broader satellite-based emission reduction efforts across a dozen industries, including energy, agriculture, manufacturing and transportation.

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The Mynaric-co-led consortium UN:IO has been selected by the European Commission for initial work on an independent European satellite network. The European Commission selected UN:IO and one other consortium [New Symphonie] to outline within the next six months a detailed technical concept for their respective proposed constellation architecture to establish Europe’s future sovereign communications infrastructure in space.

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BlackSky’s said its high-resolution small satellite constellation has the highest revisit rate in the world, with a peak of 15 hourly visits per day over certain locations. The real-time geospatial intelligence company recently achieved a 12 small satellite constellation, doubling its imaging capacity.

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The first elements of ESA’s new-generation Vega-C launch vehicle have reached Europe’s Spaceport (aka Centre Spatial Guyanais; CSG) in French Guiana.

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Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky satellites; Date: 9 December 2021, 0002 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Electron successfully delivered the two BlackSky Gen-2 Earth-imaging satellites to a circular 430 km orbit.

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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Ekspress AMU3, Ekspress AMU7; Date: 13 December 2021, 1207 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Russian Proton-M rocket lifted off with two Ekspress telecoms satellites from the Baikonur spaceport as normal and its Briz-M booster activated its thrusters successfully.

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