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Archive for March 29th, 2022

Redwire solar arrays for new weather and climate research satellite

March 29th, 2022 by

Redwire Corporation is supplying solar array technology that will power the newest of PlanetiQ’s weather and climate monitoring satellites, GNOMES-3, which is aboard the Transporter 4 launch scheduled to lift off on 1 April 2022 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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Satellites around the Moon come another step closer

March 29th, 2022 by

ESA has evaluated initial ideas to create a network of lunar telecommunications and navigation satellites. Creating a commercial telecommunications and navigation service for the Moon will allow many of the dozens of planned lunar missions to share the same infrastructure to communicate with Earth, as well as to find their way on the lunar surface.

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Exolaunch to launch AlfaCrux aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission

March 29th, 2022 by

University of Brasilia (UnB), a federal public university in Brazil, has awarded a contract to Exolaunch to launch its AlfaCrux satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission.

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China launches first rocket with sold strap-ons

March 29th, 2022 by

Rocket: Chang Zheng 6A; Payload: Tiankun-2, Pujiang-1; Date: 29 March 2022, 0950 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 588 km × 604 km × 97.79 Sun-synchronous orbit.

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