European greenhouse gas emissions decline but land stores weakenAccording to recent research, Europe’s net greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by around 25% since the 1990s. While this is good news, the study also revealed a weakening in the capacity of land and vegetation to absorb and store atmospheric carbon.
FCC approves Starlink first generation upgrade planSpaceX has secured permission to gradually replace first-generation Starlink satellites with larger spacecraft designed to provide more broadband capacity.
SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) and Bhutan’s Implementing Partners Launch Farm Action Toolkit ServiceOn 5/13/24, in alignment with the NASA Interagency Agreement with the US Department of State Advancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Bhutan through Increased Earth Observation Capacity, Aparna R. Phalke, Sarah Cox and Tony Kim (ST11) traveled to Thimphu, Bhutan, to represent the SERVIR SCO at the official launch on 5/17/24 of the “Farm […]
China to leverage growing commercial space sector to launch megaconstellationsChina will utilize expected launch capacity from the country’s emergent commercial space sector to help realize its megaconstellation plans.
Launch providers look for competitive advantages in era of transitionThe launch industry is negotiating a transition into new families of launch vehicles, working to bring additional capacity into the market while seeking out competitive advantages against a growing number of competitors.
Intelsat expands OneWeb LEO partnershipGeostationary satellite operator Intelsat has bought at least five times more capacity from Eutelsat’s OneWeb low Earth orbit constellation to strengthen its multi-orbit broadband strategy.
SpaceX gets E-band radio waves to boost Starlink broadbandSpaceX has secured conditional approval to use extremely high-frequency E-band radio waves to improve the capacity of its low Earth orbit Starlink broadband constellation.
Eutelsat scales back OneWeb Gen 2 upgrade planEutelsat has decided to hold off deploying significantly upgraded OneWeb broadband satellites to instead focus on adding continuity of service capacity for customers with long-term contracts, the French fleet operator said Feb. 16.
Viasat has enough throughput on ViaSat-3 Americas to avoid replacementViasat has ruled out ordering a ViaSat-3 Americas replacement as it expects to recover a fraction of the satellite’s 1 terabit per second capacity, the operator said Oct. 12 around three months after disclosing its antenna issue.
Starlink and SES join forces for multi-orbit cruise connectivitySpaceX and SES are pooling their broadband satellites to offer cruise operators an integrated service promising up to 3 gigabits per second of capacity per ship.
Viasat not ready to declare Viasat-3 Americas a total lossViasat is holding off on a contingency plan for ViaSat-3 Americas in the hope it could still get some capacity from the broadband satellite despite its defective antenna, the operator’s chair and CEO Mark Dankberg said Aug. 9.
Xenesis to send optical terminal to ISS platformXenesis is preparing to install an optical communications hub to increase data downlink capacity for customers of Bartolomeo, Airbus’ external research platform on the International Space Station.
NASA Awards $14 Million to Universities for Supportive STEM EffortsNASA is investing more than $14 million in 19 U.S. colleges and universities to grow their STEM capacity to participate in critical spaceflight research and prepare a new generation of diverse students for careers in the nation's science, technology, engineering, and math workforce.
Astranis Announces Contract To Bring Internet To 2 Million People In Philippines Next YearAstranis set to build, deploy, and operate small geostationary broadband satellite with the capacity to connect up to 2 million people across 5,000 remote and rural communities in the Philippines in new long term contract with Orbits Corp, the satellite services arm of Philippine internet service provider HTechCorp.
China looks to build new space partnerships with Egypt satellite projectChina has delivered a set of satellites to Egypt as part of a program to develop the latter country's capacity to assemble, integrate and test satellites.
Ball and Seagate test data storage devices for satellitesBall Aerospace and Seagate Technology Holdings are working together to develop and test high-capacity commercial data processing and storage devices for spaceflight applications.
China launches Tianlian data relay satelliteChina launched the eighth satellite for its Tianlian data relay network in geostationary orbit on a Long March 3B rocket Tuesday, adding capacity to a constellation linking mission controllers with the Chinese space station and other low-orbiting spacecraft.
NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate AdvisorIn an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration’s climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York, to serve in the role in an acting capacity.
SpaceX sets new rocket reuse records with successful Starlink launchSpaceX launched 60 more Starlink satellites Wednesday into a sunny sky over Florida’s Space Coast, adding more capacity and coverage to the company’s commercial broadband network while setting new records for the pace it is reusing Falcon 9 rocket boosters.

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