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OVZON 3 SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS SOLAR ARRAYS IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT OVZON 3 SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS SOLAR ARRAYS IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT - Redwire said Jan. 10 the two unfurlable solar array wings it provided for Ovzon 3, the first commercial satellite to use the space technology company’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) hardware, have successfully deployed in geostationary orbit. Each 10-meter-long ROSA is operating nominally following Ovzon 3’s launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, Redwire announced, providing the 1,500-kilogram broadband satellite and its electric propulsion with a combined 10-kilowatts of power for a trip due to take several months to its final orbital position.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jan 11)


IRIDIUM PIVOTS TO STANDARDIZED DIRECT-TO-DEVICE SATELLITE SERVICES IRIDIUM PIVOTS TO STANDARDIZED DIRECT-TO-DEVICE SATELLITE SERVICES - Iridium Communications plans to make its low Earth orbit constellation compatible with 5G standards used by mass-market smartphones, aiming to enable them to access messaging and SOS services outside cellular coverage from 2026. The standards-based approach comes after a proprietary-only strategy for serving the emerging direct-to-device market derailed last year when Qualcomm scrapped plans to make specialized chips that would give smartphones the ability to connect to Iridium’s satellites.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jan 11)


CHINA TO LAUNCH 26,000 SATELLITES, VYING WITH U.S. FOR SPACE POWER CHINA TO LAUNCH 26,000 SATELLITES, VYING WITH U.S. FOR SPACE POWER - China will start building this year its own version of StarLink, a satellite internet constellation using low Earth orbit, with plans of launching some 26,000 satellites to cover the entire world led by state-run companies. Now that the military use of satellite-based communications systems for warfare in such places as Ukraine and Gaza is increasing, China will set up its own satellite network to compete with the U.S. as a "space power."   More
(Source: Nikkei Asia - Jan 11)


CHINA'S 1ST LAUNCH OF 2024 PUTS 4 SMALL WEATHER SATELLITES INTO ORBIT CHINA'S 1ST LAUNCH OF 2024 PUTS 4 SMALL WEATHER SATELLITES INTO ORBIT - A Kuaizhou 1A solid rocket lifted off from a transport erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 6:20 a.m. EST (1120 GMT and 7:20 p.m. Beijing time) on Jan. 5. Aboard were four Tianmu-1 weather satellites, numbered 15-18. The satellites join two other sets of four Tianmu-1 satellites, which were launched separately on Dec. 24 and Dec. 27 last year.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 11)


SPACEX TO LAUNCH 22 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CALIFORNIA EARLY JAN. 11 AFTER DELAYS SPACEX TO LAUNCH 22 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CALIFORNIA EARLY JAN. 11 AFTER DELAYS - SpaceX is set to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday (Jan. 11) at 3:59 a.m. EST (0859 GMT; 12:59 a.m. local time in California). The mission was initially scheduled to launch on Jan. 9. You can watch the launch via SpaceX's account on X. Coverage will begin about five minutes before the launch.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 11)


LAUNCH ROUNDUP: AXIOM-3 CREW AND TIANZHOU 7 CARGO SPACE STATION MISSIONS THIS WEEK LAUNCH ROUNDUP: AXIOM-3 CREW AND TIANZHOU 7 CARGO SPACE STATION MISSIONS THIS WEEK - A pair of missions to space stations headline the launches for the week of Jan. 10 to Jan. 17. Axiom-3 will be flying four private astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the first crew launch of 2024. Crew Dragon Freedom will fly from Florida, with a multinational crew, for a mission to the Station lasting around two weeks. The Tianzhou 7 cargo spacecraft headed for the Chinese Space Station Tiangong is also flying this week, and Japan is launching a military reconnaissance satellite aboard one of its last H-IIA rockets. In addition, the Gravity-1 rocket developed by the Chinese firm OrienSpace is making its maiden flight. Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1, Starlink 7-10, and Starlink 6-37 are also now on the schedule for this week.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jan 10)


CHINA SATELLITE LAUNCH PROMPTS TAIWAN ATTACK ALERT AHEAD OF PIVOTAL VOTE CHINA SATELLITE LAUNCH PROMPTS TAIWAN ATTACK ALERT AHEAD OF PIVOTAL VOTE - Taiwan's government issued an air raid alert on Tuesday, saying a Chinese rocket carrying a satellite had flown over its southern airspace, which Taiwan's foreign minister described as part of a pattern of harassment days before a pivotal election. The island-wide security alert was sent by the defence ministry to mobile phone users in Taiwan after 3 p.m. (0700 GMT), around the same time Chinese state media confirmed the launch of a science satellite.   More
(Source: Reuters - Jan 10)


ROCKET LAB TO BUILD MILITARY SATELLITES FOR SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ROCKET LAB TO BUILD MILITARY SATELLITES FOR SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY - The Space Development Agency awarded Rocket Lab $515 million to build 18 data transport satellites. The company joins Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, who received awards in August to develop 36 satellites each. The spacecraft are part of the third generation — dubbed Tranche 2 — of SDA’s Proliferated Warfigher Space Architecture, a fleet of hundreds of small satellites operating in low Earth orbit, about 1,200 miles above the planet’s surface.   More
(Source: C4ISRNet - Jan 9)


ULA MARKS SUCCESS WITH THE INAUGURAL MISSION OF ITS VULCAN ROCKET LAUNCHING A MOON-BOUND ROBOTIC LANDER ULA MARKS SUCCESS WITH THE INAUGURAL MISSION OF ITS VULCAN ROCKET LAUNCHING A MOON-BOUND ROBOTIC LANDER - With the company’s future riding on it, United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan rocket successfully put a commercial robotic lander on course for the Moon after lifting off from Cape Canaveral’s pad 41 at 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 UTC). This mission was the first certification flight of Vulcan, an important proving ground for the first launch vehicle developed by ULA since it was established in 2006. The milestone comes roughly a decade after the rocket was first announced.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 8)


VULCAN ON THE PAD FOR ITS FIRST LAUNCH VULCAN ON THE PAD FOR ITS FIRST LAUNCH - After a decade of development, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket is finally on the launch pad for its inaugural launch, carrying not just a lunar lander but also the company’s future. ULA rolled out its first Vulcan rocket to the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 5, ahead of a launch scheduled for 2:18 a.m. Eastern Jan. 8. The rocket’s primary payload is Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jan 8)

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