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Inmarsat GX5 Satellite Finalizes Launch Date
Inmarsat received formal confirmation from its launch partner, Arianespace, that the company’s GX5 satellite will be launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov 22. The...
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Airbus Tests Sentinel-6A’s Operational Fitness
Airbus space engineers are currently testing the Copernicus Sentinel-6A satellite at the Space Test Center of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn — near Munich, Germany — to prove its readiness...
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Atlas Space Operation, Aevum Work on ASLON-45 Space Lift
Atlas Space Operations and Aevum revealed their partnership and collaboration on The Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON)-45 space lift mission. The partnership expands on the existing collaboration between Atlas...
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SSTL Ships Satellite for Astroscale's ELSA-d Mission
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has shipped a 16 kilogram (kg) Target satellite for Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission to Tokyo, where it will be bolted to the...
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Astroscale's Elsa-d satellite. Photo: Astroscale
Spaceflight, Rocket Lab to Launch Ale Mission
Spaceflight arranged for Tokyo-based Ale to launch its entertainment and science satellite on Rocket Lab’s next Electron launch. The mission, called “Running Out of Fingers” by Rocket Lab to signify...
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Photo: ALE
China Launches Gaofen-7 Earth Observation Satellite
On Sunday, China launched a new Earth Observation (EO) satellite, Gaofen-7, which aims to play an important role in land surveying and mapping, urban and rural construction, and statistical investigation,...
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