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Archive for January 11th, 2022

Astroscale U.S. and Orbit Fab sign first on-orbit satellite fuel sale agreement

January 11th, 2022 by

Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space refuelling service provider and Astroscale U.S. Inc. announced a commercial agreement to refuel Astroscale’s Life Extension In-Orbit (LEXI) Servicer in geostationary orbit (GEO); LEXI is the first satellite designed to be refuelled.

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Airbus to develop PMAS system for Lunar Gateway module

January 11th, 2022 by

Airbus Crisa, an affiliate company of Airbus, has signed a contract for the development of the Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) with Northrop Grumman.

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Copernicus Sentinel-1B suffers serious anomaly

January 11th, 2022 by

Copernicus Sentinel-1B is unavailable since 23 December 2021 at 0653 UTC, no data are being generated. Following the anomaly, resuming of the operations was carefully prepared including on-board configuration changes preventing the anomaly to occur again.

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Vega C to launch FLEX and ALTIUS

January 11th, 2022 by

Arianespace and the European Space Agency ESA have signed a contract to secure the launch of FLEX and ALTIUS on Vega C, from Europe’s Spaceport mid-2025.

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Virgin Orbit opens launch window for ‘Above The Clouds’

January 11th, 2022 by

The launch window for Virgin Orbit’s third commercial flight,Above the Clouds, opens this on 12 January 2022. The spacecraft to be launched to Low Earth Orbit at 500 km circular orbit at 45 degrees inclination for this mission includes satellites for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program, Polish company SatRevolution, and Spire Global, Inc.

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