January 9th, 2022 by
Voyager Space Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro’s technology throughput to civil, commercial, and defence customers.
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January 9th, 2022 by
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 7-m, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.
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January 9th, 2022 by
Arianespace has been awarded a launch contract by SITAEL, with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as the final customer, to orbit PLATiNO 1 & 2 satellites, between 2022 and 2024 on Vega and Vega C. PLATiNO 1 and 2 are Earth observation small satellites operating on Sun-synchronous orbits. PLATiNO 1 will embark a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), operating in the X band, while PLATiNO 2 will carry an optical thermal instrument.
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January 9th, 2022 by
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 49 Starlink satellites (Starlink 4-5); Date: 6 January 2022, 2149 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The satellites were deployed into 210 km × 339 km × 53.22 degrees transfer orbit 15 minutes after lift-off.
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