Celestia UK announced the appointment of Dr Mehul ‘Micky’ Mehta as CEO to manage its ambitious growth plans in the fields of Antenna, RF and Signal Processing technologies. Before joining Celestia UK, Micky was co-founder and VP Modem Design at Blu Wireless Technology, responsible for PHY layer design and development. …
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Inmarsat has been honored by the UK Ministry of Defence with a prestigious Silver Award in this year’s Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, in recognition of our support for the armed forces community. In order to be considered for the award, recipients must be able to actively demonstrate that they treat service …
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The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) announced the postponement of its international Mars analog mission “AMADEE-20”. The simulation of a crewed mission to the Red Planet was originally scheduled to take place later this year in October in Israel. Due to pandemic related safety concerns the Austrian Space Forum in accordance …
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TNO is the first to deliver an optical module to German Airbus Defence & Space which is assembling the Sentinel-5 satellite instrument. The aim of Sentinel-5 is to accurately monitor the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere on a daily basis. In developing a spectrometer and a telescope for the satellite, …
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Exolaunch, a Berlin-based rideshare launch-and-deployment solutions provider, signed a launch agreement with Swarm Technologies, a Mountain View-based satellite company providing low-cost global connectivity for IoT devices, to launch 24 satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. Under the contract, Exolaunch will provide launch, integration and deployment services to the …
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Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Thomas Jarzombek, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy. This event will take place on 25 August 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST. Thomas Jarzombek will share some thoughts about Germany’s role in the European and global space sector. He will highlight the national …
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by Dr. Moriba Jah and John Holden The only way to achieve transparency between actors in space is through the development of a civil-space situational awareness (SSA) and space-traffic management (STM) entity that can monitor, assess, and make evidence widely accessible to all. The first Space Security Exchange (SSE) bi-lateral meeting …
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Astroscale U.S. Inc., (“Astroscale U.S.”), the U.S. unit of Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, announced that Carolyn Belle and Rob Staples have joined Astroscale U.S. Belle is serving as Director, Advanced Systems as of July 2020, and Staples is serving as Program Manager as …
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Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) for the delivery of the X-Band Transceiver and X-Band Diplexer. These critical systems will ensure communications for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover …
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By Jessica West and Gilles Doucet Specialists in space security constantly call for more responsible norms of behavior in outer space. As the number of users and uses of space grows, the calls get louder and more urgent. Meanwhile, many states claim to want the same thing. Canada’s national defense …
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