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Spaceleaks daily: Mar 25, 2021
Worldwide:
- ESA boost for UK space transportation initiatives Orbex and Skyrora
- How the ESA is using space tech to build an ICU train
- NASA to offer funding for initial studies of commercial space stations
- Overview: Latin America’s satellite projects
- Uganda set to build a satellite ground station facility
Business:
- Swarm takes LoRa Sky-High
- Relativity Space printed its Terran 1 rocket’s second stage in a few weeks
- Italy’s Leaf Space to establish U.S. office
- FAA streamlines commercial space launch and re-entry with new Part 450 Rule
- Cubic’s nuvotronics wins 2 DoD “5G to Next G” program awards for PolyStrata tech
- Avanti taps former OneWeb CIO for CTO role
- Satellite software startup Utilis raises $6 million to detect terrestrial water leaks
- NBN Co ‘contemplates’ path to 100Mbps-plus business satellite services
- Bluestaq receives $280M contract modification to further develop Space Force data management platform
Technology:
- ESA Lunar cave explorer
- Arianespace and Starsem to continue OneWeb constellation deployment with fifth launch
- EUMETSAT and Arianespace confirm the launch of two Meteosat Third Generation satellites with Ariane 6
- Engineers detail plans for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight on April 8
- Satellite imagery shows mega container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal
- Galileo satellite checks out, dodges space debris, returns to active service
- SpaceX launches 4th Starlink mission this month
- New imaging algorithm can spot fast-moving and rotating space junk
Education:
OneWeb: Key details about a secret meeting between PM Boris Johnson and an Indian billionaire Sunil Mittal in the Number 10 garden last summer are being withheld from parliament, a Commons select committee chairman has claimed. The PM would not reveal whether he personally brokered Sunil Mittal’s £400m investment in satellite company OneWeb.
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