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Archive for December 20th, 2021

CYGNSS satellites celebrate five years of conducting critical hurricane research

December 20th, 2021 by

A constellation of Southwest Research Institute-built and -operated satellites recently celebrated five years in orbit, circling the tropics to assess wind speeds to better understand how hurricanes intensify.

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Mynaric selected for DARPA programme

December 20th, 2021 by

Mynaric has been selected to work on the architectural design of a next-generation optical communications terminal as part of the phase 0 of the Space Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) programme of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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L3Harris completes final U.S. Missile Defense Agency satellite design milestone

December 20th, 2021 by

L3Harris Technologies completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) programme Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.

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L3Harris delivers fourth Advanced Baseline Imager to NASA

December 20th, 2021 by

L3Harris Technologies has delivered its fourth imager to NASA, completing the series of advanced weather sensors for NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and lays the groundwork for future imager programmes.

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Inmarsat ORCHESTRA hits first milestone in space with new LEO satellite

December 20th, 2021 by

Inmarsat said that ORCHESTRA, the company’s future network for global mobility and government communications, achieved its first milestone in space with the successful activation of a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite payload.

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Spainsat NG programme successfully passes Critical Design Review

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The Spainsat NG programme has successfully passed another important milestone, the critical design review (CDR) of the payload and the complete satellite, including the CDR elements of the Pacis 3 partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA). The review was declared successful after verifying the good progress of the tests performed on the development models of the X-band payload.

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Delay of the day: H-IIA/Inmarsat 6 F1

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Inmarsat and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced a new date and time for the launch of the first satellite in the Inmarsat-6 fleet (I-6 F1) aboard MHI’s H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 45 (HIIA F45).

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