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Astroscale’s ELSA-d demonstrates Magnetic Capture in space

With space debris an ever growing problem, Astroscale has announced the successful completion of Phase 3A of its ELSA-d mission (End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration). It successfully tested its ability to capture its client spacecraft using the servicer’s magnetic system, in a demonstration performed on 25 August 25. Basically, the procedure was a validation of ELSA-d’s ...

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U.S. Space Force stands up final field command, STARCOM

One to record: The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has activated its third and final field command, its Space Training and Readiness Command, dubbed STARCOM. At a ceremony at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado last week, Brig. Gen. Shawn N. Bratton, Air National Guard assumed its command. “Today marks a significant milestone for the U.S. ...

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Iceotope leads CPD accredited course on Data Centre Liquid Cooling

Iceotope Technologies, the precision immersion cooling specialist, has announced a CPD accredited training module addressing CPUs and GPUs in data centre and edge computing environments. Specifically, the training module covers the challenge of the processors becoming ever more powerful while being required to operate in a more diverse range of locations. “In this era of ...

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Commercial space revenue growth shrugs off Covid

New research published suggests that commercial space revenue grew 6.6% in 2020, exceeding $356 billion, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Space Foundation released “The Space Report 2021 36th Annual Space Symposium Special Edition” at the Symposium, which took place earlier in the week at Colorado Springs. Headline points include infrastructure and support industries growing the most, ...

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iSpace announces its next-gen larger lunar lander

iSpace – the lunar space transportation company based in Tokyo – has unveiled its next generation lunar lander, dubbed Series 2. It will first be used for the company’s third lunar mission. The new design of the lander sees an increase in size and payload design capacity. Standing at approximately 9 ft tall and 14 ...

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BAE Systems furthers defence collaboration with Intel

BAE Systems has announced another strategic business agreement for its FAST Labs R&D organisation having early access to selected Intel technologies. The agreement, says the company, is intended to help accelerate development of military applications. The agreement will enable it “to develop and more quickly field next-generation defense applications based on Intel’s most advanced technology”. ...

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Redwire highlights HOSS (Hyperion Operational Space Simulation Laboratory)

Redwire, the Jacksonville, Florida-based space infrastructure company, has unveiled its Hyperion Operational Space Simulation Laboratory (HOSS), which it describes as “a first-of-its-kind digital engineering environment”. Announcing “initial operational capability” for the state-of-the-art facility, the company says it is designed to address next-generation space architectures and solutions, via artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber technologies. It ...

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US, UK defence partners run Swarm and Search Capture the Flag AI challenge

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has partnered with the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to bring together AI experts from the around the world in a Swarm and Search Capture the Flag Challenge. Due to conclude today – with a final, single-elimination showcase event – the competition opened in early May. ...

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Firefly appoints former Blue Origin, SpaceX engineer as COO

Firefly, the Texas-based launch and in-space services provider, has appointed Lauren Lyons as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). With the company approaching its first Alpha launch, and the development of the Blue Ghost lunar lander, it says Lyons’ priorities will be to focus on “transitioning Firefly from an R&D environment to a production environment”, responding ...

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South Korea invests in OneWeb LEO satellite constellation

The South Korean chaebol Hanwha Systems is the latest equity partner within OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, which was bought from bankruptcy by the UK Government and the Indian company Bharti Global for $1 billion in June 2020. Investments have since followed from SoftBank of Japan (also an original investor), EchoStar of ...

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