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A Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink broadband satellites on Oct. 12, the first Starlink mission flown by the rocket since Sept. 19. The launch resumes a cadence of Falcon 9 missions to build out SpaceX’s low Earth orbit broadband constellation.
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Czech defense company CSG has acquired a 9.5% stake in Canada’s MDA Space, becoming the satellite and space technology company’s largest shareholder. The transaction gives CSG a significant position in a space-sector supplier, though the reports provide no further details on the deal’s terms or any planned strategic changes.
A Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink broadband satellites on Oct. 12, the first Starlink mission flown by the rocket since Sept. 19. The launch resumes a cadence of Falcon 9 missions to build out SpaceX’s low Earth orbit broadband constellation.
Reveal Technology introduced an upgraded platform that fuses satellite and drone imagery into 3D terrain models for U.S. Army soldiers. The software is designed to support terrain analysis and mission planning even when military communications are disrupted.
Regional operators ABS, Hellas Sat and Arabsat say governments’ growing emphasis on sovereign satellite connectivity is strengthening the appeal of geostationary-orbit fleets. They argue GEO operators can offer governments full control of a satellite when required, an advantage they see in the current geopolitical environment relative to low Earth orbit services.
York Space Systems will support a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration under a recent U.S. Space Force award for the Space Data Network. The demonstration will test how systems from different vendors work together within the network, though the announcement provides no further details on participants or schedule.
Kratos says its OpenSpace ground system platform was used in a KT SAT demonstration of end-to-end connectivity across a native, multi-vendor 5G New Radio non-terrestrial network. The demonstration brought together the ground system and network components to show connectivity across the NTN.
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