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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with the South Korean aerospace manufacturer and defence company, LIG Nex1 Co., Ltd., to provide a Digital Processor for the GEO-KOMPSAT-3 communications satellite.

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Thales Alenia Space has chosen the Safran Aircraft Engines PPS5000 plasma thruster to power six satellites in the second-generation Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS).

Rogue Space Systems Corporation announced the signing of a Bilateral Letter of Intent with Orbit Fab, Inc.. Rogue will provide observation services using their Laura Orbital Robot (Orbot) spacecraft for a future Orbit Fab Demonstration Mission. Additionally, Rogue has agreed to outfit their Orbots with RAFTI fuelling ports to support future on-orbit refuelling from Orbit Fab.

Astroscale said it has decided not to go on with its ELSA-d debris removal mission for the time being after detecting “anomalous spacecraft conditions.”

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, built in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation, arrived at its solar orbit, Lagrange Point 2 (L2), marking the completion of its 1.5 million km journey and the first month of its half-year long commissioning period.

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Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service announced it has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd. (OrbAstro), a satellite and in-orbit service provider.

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SpaceX’s 24th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission (funded by NASA) successfully splashed down off the coast of Florida. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft spent more than 30 days docked to the International Space Station (ISS), and with this completed mission, it successfully transported a variety of research investigations back to Earth for further analysis.

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The second satellite in Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Earth Observation programme is to be launched on 27 January at 2311 UTC from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida (USA) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.