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Chinese taikonauts complete first CSS spacewalk
Taikonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo opened the Tianhe 1 hatch on 4 July at 0011 GMT. Boming exited the Chinese space station airlock first to attach a foot restraint and platform to the end of the station's 10 metre robotic arm. He then mounted the arm. Mission...
OneWeb completes its “Five to 50” milestone with fourth launch this year
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1B Fregat vehicle at 1248 GMT 1 July from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia. The vehicle was carrying 36 OneWeb satellites bringing its number of in-orbit units to 254. The satellites were deployed in to a LEO, near polar...
Seradata Space Conference 2021 Review: Space Debris risk & cyber extortion dominate threats; reprogramming payloads & reusing satellites are the opportunities
Seradata hosted its biennial space insurance conference virtually this year with over 170 attendees during the afternoons of 23 and 24 June. It was sponsored by ExoAnalytic, Piiq Risk Partners, Aon ISB, and Russell Group. The conference was ably chaired by Morten...
Virgin Orbit launches seven CubeSats into LEO for military and commercial customers
Virgin Orbit has successfully launched a LauncherOne rocket its the carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl, at 1447 GMT on 30 June. The "Tubular Bells: Part One" mission began with the carrier aircraft taking off from Mojave Air and Space Port, California, USA at 1350 GMT....
Bharti Global to increase OneWeb investment by US$500 million, completing financing for constellation
Bharti Global, based in India, intends to increase its investment in LEO constellation operator OneWeb by a further US$500 million, making it the biggest shareholder. The announcement, made on 29 June, details that Bharti has decided to exercise a call option it had...
Russia launches Progress MS-17 resupply freighter to the ISS
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A rocket carrying the Progress MS-17 re-supply vessel in to LEO at 2327 GMT on 29 June. The mission lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan towards the ISS and was loaded with 2,439 kg of water, fuel, food, air,...
Russia launches first next-gen naval reconnaissance satellite
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1B rocket at 1950 GMT, 25 June from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Northern Russia. The vehicle was carrying the first military Pion-NKS satellite which was later designated as COSMOS 2550. The Pion-NKS satellite is the first of the...
Space companies eyeing up public listing to fund future growth
Yahsat GEO satellite operator Yahsat announced its intention to start publicly trading at least 30 per cent of its shares on 21 June. The company based in and primarily-owned by the United Arab Emirates hopes to be listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange by Q3...
Iridium wins US$30 million US Army contract
Iridium Communication was awarded a research and development contract worth up to US$30 million by the United States Army on 24 June 2021. This contract is to develop a new payload, based on Iridium Burst® technology, to be hosted on small satellites supporting...
Seradata Space Conference: ULA chief Tory Bruno warns that launches to orbits close to SpaceX Starlink constellation will be problematic
PARIS — The arrival of several mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, coupled with today’s imprecise satellite tracking, will make satellite collisions just as important as frequency interference in future licensing regimes, United Launch Alliance Chief...
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