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Spaceleaks daily: Mar 24, 2021
Worldwide:
- ISRO static test of SSLV’s first stage solid motor unsuccessful
- Germany urges EU to include New Space in its LEO plan
- UK cuts Army and invests in space defense and drone warfare
Business:
- Lockheed Martin partners with satellite start-up Omnispace to build a space-based 5G network
- Atomionics raises seed funding to make navigation easy in areas where GPS doesn’t work
- NanoAvionics CEO unveils new MP42 Bus, says market needs bigger smallsats
- Myriota launches commercial service in the United States and Canada with second-generation nanosatellites
- Global Eagle Entertainment completes Chapter 11 restructuring
- UK SpaceTech Open Cosmos launches two satellites to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas across the globe
- Arqiva to help power Musk’s satellite broadband ambitions
- Cubic Nuvotronics wins contract to develop high-altitude balloon payload for wideband global satellite operations
- OneWeb demonstrates its satellite-based communications system to the U.S. Department of Defense
- OneWeb announces commercial aviation deal ahead of new satellite launch
- SAR provider Synspective signs launch agreement with Exolaunch
- Kymeta Interoperability with Kepler LEO Satellites Promises Powerful Connectivity of the Future with Kymeta™ u8 Terminal
- Skymet opens up a trove of satellite data to all
- Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. announces appointment of Ellen Lord to Board of Directors
Technology:
- L3Harris builds prototype satellite to track hypersonic weapons
- NASA, industry to mature vertical solar array technologies for Lunar surface
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity gets 1st taste of Red Planet air (video)
Science:
Skymet, the private weather forecaster, is giving everyone free access to its 10-year geospatial proprietary farm-level data repository through a digital platform ‘SkAlgeo’. The datasets extracted from satellite imagery every fortnight pan-India contain the Greenness Index, the Standard Precipitation Index, information related to crop health and soil moisture among others.
Russia has named next Soyuz transport after Yuri Gagarin as 60th anniversary of history flight approaches. It is also the 20th anniversary of MIR Space Station reentering Earth’s atmosphere.
The Telegraph reports that towers company Arqiva has done a deal with Elon Musk that will allow him to use Arqiva’s ground station dishes to extend Starlink satellite broadband service across the UK. Arqiva has large ground station dishes spread across southern parts of the UK which can connect broadband satellites to fiber networks.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will be landing rockets on Mars ‘well before 2030’ (he didn’t say humans this time). He also said that European rocket efforts are “aiming too low”, claiming that only “rockets that are fully & rapidly reusable” are going to be competitive.
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