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NanoAvionics, Lacuna Space Sign 2nd Contract
NanoAvionics U.K. and Lacuna Space, both based at Harwell Campus Space Cluster, signed a second contract to integrate the Lacuna Space LoRa-based Space Gateway into NanoAvionics’ M6P nanosatellite bus, which will...
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Aerial view of Harwell Campus. Photo: NanoAvionics
Orbex CEO Ready for the Challenge Ahead
The commercial reality of a space port in Scotland has taken a new, positive step with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). In recent days, the company revealed its latest...
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Orbex CEO Chris Larmour. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Kleos Space Satellites Ready to Launch
Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, completed all acceptance reviews and the satellites are mission-ready awaiting transport to RocketLab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The satellites...
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Kleos Space cubesats. Photo: Kleos
Russia Successfully Launches Space Telescope
Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on July 13, carrying the Spektr-RG space telescope. The rocket lifted off from launch pad N81 at Baikonur cosmodrome at 3:30 p.m.,...
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In this frame grab taken from video on Saturday, July 13, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, a Russian Proton-M rocket takes off from the launch pad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo: Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP
Maxar Builds GEO Satellite for Ovzon
Maxar Technologies began production on a Legion-class Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden that works to increase mobile broadband connectivity in...
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Artist rendition of an Ovzon satellite. Photo: Ovzon
Virgin Orbit Successfully Tests LauncherOne
Richard Branson-backed space startup Virgin Orbit has completed a key step along its path to launching satellites for commercial customers. The company held a successful “drop test” of its LauncherOne...
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Drop shot from the Virgin Orbit test. Photo: Tech Crunch
Arianespace Launch Failure Destroys UAE Satellite
A military spy satellite has come crashing down to earth after the failure of its launch rocket, sending the expensive payload into the Atlantic. The European Vega rocket had been launched from French...
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Arianespace launching a Vega 5 rocket. Photo: Getty/Forbes