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Maxar Intelligence has launched its first two high-resolution Earth imagery and mapping satellites with solar arrays onboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The company said Thursday the satellites deployed their solar arrays after launch and began receiving and transmitting signals, indicating that the spacecraft perform well in space where […] More

Investment firm Leonid Capital Partners has announced extending a new $20 million term loan to satellite vehicle maker ABL Space Systems. In a press release Wednesday, James Parker, co-founder of Leonid Capital Partners, said, “ABL Space Systems is doing groundbreaking work to increase domestic launch resiliency and build out ‘responsive launch’ capabilities for the Department of […] More

Alice Fakir, a federal cybersecurity services partner at IBM, said the updated version of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework puts a focus on timeliness and reporting and managing supply chain risks and third-party risks, FedTech reported Wednesday. “This updated framework is calling for better awareness and improvement of security controls around […] More

NASA has selected nine companies to conduct a total of 12 studies on the feasibility of using commercial services, such as payload delivery, payload hosting, communications relay and surface imaging, to support future science missions to Mars. The Mars Exploration Commercial Services research program focuses on four categories: small payload delivery and hosting services, large […] More