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Exotrail has signed a contract with Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer OHB LuxSpace for a co-engineering phase aiming the further integration of ExoMG – cluster², a configuration of Exotrail’s high thrust electric propulsion product family, into the Triton-X Heavy platform.

AAC Clyde Space AB has won an order from Aegis Aerospace to supply its Starbuck power systems and battery solutions worth US$500,000 for a satellite mission carried out on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Italy and France pledged to strengthen their co-operation on space launchers as part of a broader bilateral treaty. Among the goals laid out in the treaty were pledges to reinforce military connections, including at an industrial level, and work together in the space sector.

Engineering teams have completed additional testing confirming NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is ready for flight, and launch preparations are resuming toward Webb’s target launch date of Wednesday, 22 December.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B; Payload: Zhongxing 1D (ChinaSat 1D); Date: 26 November 2021, 1640 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was deployed into a 182 km x 35,830 km x 27.08 degrees geostationary transfer orbit.

Astroscale Holdings Inc. announced it closed its Series F round with additional funding of US$109 million from a group of new investors led by THE FUND Limited Partnership in Japan, with participation from international investors. This is the largest funding round in the company’s history and brings the total amount raised to US$300 million.

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Thales Alenia Space has inaugurated a new Friction Stir Welding facility at one of its production sites in Turin, which will double production capacity of pressurised modules, for the production of the future orbiting and surface infrastructures.

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The cargo spacecraft Progress MS-17 has been successfully de-orbited and dumped in the Pacific Ocean far away from shipping routes.

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