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ESA’s Ariane 6 and Vega-C will soon join the family of launch vehicles operating from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The P120C motor, which will power both Ariane 6 and Vega-C, will soon come into operations with the Vega-C inaugural flight.

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Boeing unveiled a new high-throughput small satellite production, integration and test facility designed for efficiency and rapid delivery timelines. Housed in the world’s largest satellite factory, Boeing’s 93,000 m² El Segundo facility, the small satellite production line will be powered by Boeing subsidiary, Millennium Space Systems.

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Russian state-run space corporation Roskosmos did not expect to sign contracts for major launch campaigns, as was the case with UK OneWeb project, corporation spokesperson Dmitry Strugovets has said.

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Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, announced its forward progression towards launch of its LizzieSat (LS) satellite to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission is slated to take place later this year.

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South Korea successfully test-fired a solid-fuel space rocket Wednesday, the country’s defence ministry said.

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Rocket: Chang Zheng 11; Payload: Tianping-2A, Tianping-2B, Tianping-2C; Date: 30 March 2022, 0229 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 584 km × 604 km × 97.80 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits.

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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.

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.