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UK and USA join forces to launch ‘space weather’ service

June 4th, 2019 Posted in News
4 June 2019 – The UK will develop a new instrument for use on space weather monitoring spacecraft to observe the solar wind, in order to protect astronauts, satellites and ground infrastructure. The Sun is always emitting magnetised plasma called ...
TechDemoSat-1 sail deployed in May 2019

TechDemoSat-1 on-board camera captures drag sail deployment

May 31st, 2019 Posted in News
31 May 2019 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released an image showing the successful deployment of the de-orbit drag sail on-board TechDemoSat-1. The deployment of the Icarus-1 drag sail, which was supplied by Cranfield University, ma...
Measat 3d

Airbus to build multimission satellite for MEASAT

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – Airbus has been selected by MEASAT Global Berhad, the leading Malaysian operator, to build MEASAT-3d, a new multimission telecommunications satellite to replace capacity and augment its core business in Malaysia, Asia, Middle East...
Airbus EDRS C satellite

Launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – The EDRS-C satellite, the second node of the SpaceDataHighway network (also known as EDRS), will be launched into geostationary orbit at 31° East on 24 July 2019 by an Ariane 5 launcher.
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2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards open for nominations

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards open today. The British Interplanetary Society has again been selected by the Foundation to organise and manage th...
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NASA awards $608 million contract to PAE-KBR Joint Venture

April 29th, 2019 Posted in News
29 April 2019 – NASA recently announced it awarded the Base Operations, Spaceport Services contract at the Kennedy Space Center to the joint venture PAE-SGT Partners LLC, known as PSP. The firm fixed-price contract with a potential value of $608.7...