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India's Big Balloon ... First Sudent-Led Micro Satellite Launch
Hyderabad added yet another feather in its scientific cap with the successful launch of India's first student-led micro satellite from the balloon facility of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in the c...
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China Launches First Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite Plus Six SmallSats
China's launch of the Zhangheng-1 satellite and secondary payloads. On February 2, China launched the nation's first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors, which could help establish a ground-s...
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Airbus Joins EGNOS V3 Consortium
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to develop EGNOS V3, the next generation of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) planned to provide the aviation c...
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National University of Singapore and DSO Launch a STAR Focusing on Formation Flying Smallsats
News comes of another university, National University of Singapore, which is creating a research center to develop satellites, focusing on small sats. Yesterday Satnews shared a similar announcement about Tel Aviv Uni...
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National University of Singapore and DSO Launch a STAR Focusing on Formation Flying Smallsats
News comes of another university, National University of Singapore, which is creating a research center to develop satellites, focusing on small sats. Yesterday Satnews shared a similar announcement about Tel Aviv Uni...
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Rocket Lab Gets Their Kicks ... Successfully Tests a Kick Stage to Circularize Satellites' Orbit
Rocket Lab kick stage, with the four silver spheres of the new Curie engine seen in the middle. Photo Rocket Lab Rocket Lab's rocket named Still Testing was successfully launched on January 21st, and now they've anno...
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Canadian Kepler Communications Clyde Space-Built Smallsat Successfully Launched by China
Satnews Daily January 23rd, 2018 A new era in space communications started on Friday, January 19, with the successful launch of an ultra-low-cost telecommunications satellite from Canada-basedKepler Communications — this mission serves as a technolo...
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Arianespace Flight VA241 All Prepped for January 25 Launch
Satnews Daily January 22nd, 2018 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s upcoming mission from French Guiana is now complete following integration of the two satellite passengers: SES-14 for operator SES and Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 — both of these satellites will b...
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A Second Orbital ATK Life Extension Mission Vehicle Ordered by Intelsat
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has been awarded a contract for a second Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2). The vehicle was ordered by Intelsat S.A. to provide life extension services for an Intelsat satellite. Orbital ATK is n...
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Iridium's NEXT's Good News Is Good News ... 10 Satellites Pass Test
Last week's successful launch of the Iridium-4 launch with SpaceX caused quite the stir on the West Coast of the United States due to some stunning visuals in the evening sky, and people not knowing about the launch t...