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Two BeiDou satellites successfully launched into orbit
Image: Xinhua News Agency China has launched two satellites into medium-Earth orbits (MEO) for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, reported the China Satellite Navigation Office. The satellites were carried by a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch…
SpaceX to launch European satellites
SpaceX has signed a deal to launch four of Europe’s flagship navigation and secure communications satellites into orbit, reported The Wall Street Journal. The European Commission and the European Union (EU) member states have yet to give a final approval…
Space Force, NRO launch space observation satellites
Image: SSC Space Systems Command (SSC), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), United Launch Alliance (ULA) and their mission partners successfully launched the “Silent Barker”/NROL-107 mission aboard an Atlas V rocket September 10, 2023, at 8:47 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41…
First Fix: Satellites and spacetime
Matteo Luccio Sitting comfortably in a thin aluminum tube at 35,000 ft, I can continue to communicate via e-mail — and, soon, via video — and write this editorial, while on my way from Portland, Oregon, where I live, to…
SSC releases Epoch 2 RFI for industry inputs on MW/MT satellites
Image: Lockheed Martin The Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, and Missile Defense Acquisition Delta of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has released a request for information (RFI) seeking industry inputs for the next Epoch of medium-Earth-orbit missile…
China launches CentiSpace-1 navigation enhancement satellites
Photo: Wang Zhigang via https://mp.weixin.qq.com/. On Oct. 7, China launched a pair of satellites designed to enhance BeiDou navigation signals. The CentiSpace-1 S5 and S6 satellites were launched via a Long March 11 solid rocket that lifted off at 9:10…
Galileo Constellation Grows with the Launch of Two New Satellites
After a three-day delay, on Dec. 4, at 7:19 p.m. EST (00:19 GMT) launch service provider Arianespace launched Galileo satellites 27 and 28 on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Manufactured by OHB, the satellites are operated by…
New GNSS aboard LEO satellites in development
A new GNSS architecture aboard low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites is in development. The patent-pending system architecture “is combining the efficiency and innovation of the new space era with the world of satellite navigation to help enable modern intelligent systems to operate…