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Space Café Israel by Meidad Pariente: Arie Halsband – Moving from the classical space industry to New Space

In the Ninth episode of Space Café Israel, Meidad Pariente is in conversation with Arie Halsband. Can you share something personal that isn’t written in your LinkedIn profile? Well, I'm not sure that nobody knows. But I'm enthusiastic about history, and read history books, as a hobby. And I think that history may teach us a lot about events, stressful situations, and how people behave in such situations.

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#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: JUICE: Europe’s mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moons

JUICE is the first large mission in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 program. It has two ambitious goals: a) understanding how does the solar system work, and b) exploring  habitable worlds. To achieve this, JUICE carries the most powerful instrument suite to date for the exploration of the Jovian system, comprising of 10 key instruments.

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Safran to provide GNSS solutions for Xona Space Systems

Safran Electronics and Defence Company. Credit Safran Electronics and Defence Company

Safran Electronics and Defence company, Orolia, based in France has announced a partnership with Xona Space Systems to develop support for Xona’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation and navigation signals in its Skydel-powered simulation and testing products. Xona is developing PULSAR, a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service enabled by a commercial constellation of dedicated LEO satellites. Skydel powers Safran’s portfolio of advanced GNSS simulators like the GSG-8.

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Everland names Space Intelligence as primary data partner

Latin American Forest Everland

Everland, a US-based company representing a portfolio of high quality REDD+ forest conservation projects in the world, has named Space Intelligence, a nature mapping service based in Scotland, as its main data partner. Everland will use technology and data from Space Intelligence to build a comprehensive view of changes in land cover across three continents, covering a portfolio of site-based REDD+ projects and their surrounding regions. 

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Sky and Space Company E-SSA Modem Project approved by ESA

Sky and Space logo. Credit Sky and Space Company

Sky and Space Company, a British satellite company with communication nanosatellites and software expertise, in partnership with Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development’s Space Policy Unit, announced on the 5th of April that they have been awarded a grant from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the Enhanced Spread Spectrum Aloha (E-SSA) Modem. The E-SSA aims to revolutionise space-to-ground communications and increase efficiencies for Inter-Satellite Linking. It is designed to be the first-ever modem with the capability to process frames on nanosatellites setting the stage for new applications in nanosatellite constellations and broadening the horizons of the space sector.

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D-Orbit Signs with ESA for IRIDE Satellite Observation Program

D-Orbit has signed a 26-million-euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for IRIDE, a space-based observation program from the Italian Government. It will leverage national competencies and responsibility with the support of ESA, which will manage the project and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) under the framework of Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

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Astroscale on Space Safety Coalition Best Practices Update

Astroscale

While this 2023 update to the Best Practices for Sustainability of Space Operations is a momentous step forward for space operations safety, Astroscale believes certain elements within it still merit further improvement and fall short of what it can fully endorse without reservations. As a result, the Company endorses these updated Best Practices, with three exceptions: clauses 5.a., 7.a., and 8.j.

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