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Commercial Space Industry Providing Tools To Advance and Augment Space Domain Awareness Visualization and Analytics
The U.S. government employs an array of software visualization tools across multiple space domain awareness (SDA) mission areas. These tools, which support catalog maintenance, orbit modeling, and projection assessments, are…
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Boeing, ExoAnalytic team to offer Australian-operated, ready-to-go Space Domain Awareness system
Boeing Australia and ExoAnalytic have joined forces to offer the Australian Government a fully operational Space Domain Awareness capability which is ready to deploy immediately, and to be operated by…
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Press Release: ExoAnalytic Demonstrates Value-Added Service to Provide Direct Support to First Successful On-Orbit Servicing in Geosynchronous Orbit
New CONFERS Sustaining Member ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. was contracted to provide space domain awareness data and analysis to support the successful Mission Extension Vehicles (MEV-1 and MEV-2). The first mission…
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Chinese ‘space cleaner’ spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite
Last month, a private satellite tracking company spotted a Chinese spacecraft apparently grabbing and throwing a dead satellite away into a "graveyard" orbit.
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A Chinese Space Tug Just Grappled a Dead Satellite
A Chinese satellite pulled a defunct navigation satellite out of the way of other satellites on January 22nd. The satellite, called SJ-21, appeared to operate as a space tug when…
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China’s Shijian-21 towed dead satellite to a high graveyard orbit
China’s Shijian-21 space debris mitigation satellite has docked with a defunct Chinese satellite to drastically alter its geostationary orbit, demonstrating capabilities only previously exhibited by the United States.
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China’s SJ-21 ‘tugs’ dead satellite out of GEO belt: Trackers
China’s SJ-21 satellite now “appears to be functioning as a space tug,” pulling a dead CompassG2, or Beidou, navigation satellite out of the way of other satellites operating in the…
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Tracking Space Debris is a Growing Business
At orbital speeds a tennis-ball-sized piece of space junk packs enough energy to obliterate a satellite. It makes good sense, then, to track orbiting debris, the better to steer spacecraft away…
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NATO Space Pitch Day: Top qualifiers announced
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and NATO Space Centre are proud to announce the top qualifiers of the NATO Space Pitch Day. NCI Agency Chief of Staff…
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HARRIER System Rapidly And Inexpensively Fills Space Surveillance Network Gaps
ExoAnalytic Solutions provides much-needed tracking of near-geosynchronous orbit satellites during Air Force electro-optical sensor gaps and saves $37 million. With the support of the Small Business Innovation Research / Small…
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ExoAnalytic Solutions and NorthStar Earth & Space expand collaboration to protect satellites
Precision SSA services to meet the threat of space congestion London, United Kingdom – April 28, 2021 – In response to the increasing threat of congestion and space debris in…
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Securing cislunar space: A vision for U.S. leadership
by Brien Flewelling — November 9, 2020 Exploitation of the space domain is driving profound changes in U.S. national security and economic strategy. As military and economic activity expands beyond GEO, so too…
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Moon patrols could be a future reality for Space Force
by Sandra Erwin — November 2, 2020 “It’s a brave new world for the DoD to embark on,” said Capt. David Buehler, manager of the AFRL experiment named CHPS, for Cislunar Highway Patrol…
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Commerce Department hopes study will free up funding for space traffic management work
by Jeff Foust — June 19, 2020 WASHINGTON — Two years after a space policy directive gave it responsibility for space traffic management, the Commerce Department says it is making progress on implementing…
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Solar array problem killed Venezuela’s VeneSat-1, officials confirm
by Caleb Henry — March 30, 2020 WASHINGTON — Venezuela confirmed its first and only government-operated communications satellite, VeneSat-1, suffered a mission-ending failure that its Chinese builder blamed on a solar array problem.…
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Venezuela’s only telecoms satellite is lost in space
by Manuel Rued - March 27, 2020 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela’s only telecommunications satellite has veered off its orbit and stopped working, creating a logistical headache for the cash-strapped…
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Venezuela’s flagship communications satellite out of service and tumbling
by Caleb Henry — March 23, 2020 WASHINGTON — Venezuela’s first and only state-owned communications satellite has been out of service since March 13 when a series of maneuvers left it tumbling in…
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DirecTV’s defunct Spaceway-1 reaches high graveyard orbit in one piece
by Caleb Henry — February 14, 2020 WASHINGTON — DirecTV’s Spaceway-1 satellite has been retired to a graveyard orbit 500 kilometers above the geostationary arc, eliminating the risk of the malfunctioning satellite exploding…
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DirecTV’s damaged Spaceway-1 satellite moving to graveyard orbit
by Caleb Henry — January 31, 2020 WASHINGTON — DirecTV’s Spaceway-1 satellite, which suffered a battery malfunction last month that could still cause it to explode, is moving out of geostationary orbit and…
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Air Force awards $9 million on first Space Pitch Day San Francisco
by Debra Werner — November 5, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. Air Force leaders emphasized their commitment to quick acquisition of innovative commercial technologies by awarding a total of $9 million to 12…
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U.S. Air Force to begin transferring space situational awareness data to Commerce Department
by Caleb Henry — July 19, 2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commerce Department is “imminently” close to receiving a repository of satellite and space debris tracking data from the Air Force, a Commerce…
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Stricken with fuel leak, Intelsat 29e seen drifting in geostationary orbit
by Stephen Clark - April 15, 2019 A Boeing-built Intelsat communications satellite launched three years ago is drifting in geostationary orbit after suffering a fuel leak and releasing debris fragments…
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Possible Medium Sized Debris from Intelsat-29e Tracked by ExoAnalytic Solutions
On April 9, ExoAnalytic Solutions tracked what appears to be a medium sized piece of debris separating from the Intelsat-29e satellite. Intelsat 29e had been in a geostationary orbit at 50 degrees…
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New video of Intelsat 29e satellite reveals dramatic “anomaly”
by Eric Berger - April 12, 2019 After another satellite went out of service in geostationary orbit this week, at least temporarily, new data now suggests the spacecraft may not…
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Intelsat-29e satellite suffers fuel leak, spotted drifting along GEO arc
by Caleb Henry — April 10, 2019 COLORADO SPRINGS — Intelsat’s first Epic-series high-throughput satellite, Intelsat-29e, is drifting in orbit after back-to-back anomalies, forcing the company to shift customers to other spacecraft. Intelsat…
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ExoAnalytic, NorthStar E&S team up on space situational awareness
by Caleb Henry — April 1, 2019 WASHINGTON — ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that tracks satellites and space debris using ground-based telescopes, announced a partnership April 1 with NorthStar Earth and Space, a Canadian…
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How to avoid another Telkom-1
by Luca Rossettini — September 7, 2017 The recent failure of PT Telkom’s 18-year-old Telkom-1 satellite highlighted the risk associated with prolonged operations of aging satellites. Announced as a pointing anomaly on August…
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ExoAnalytic video shows Telkom-1 satellite erupting debris
by Caleb Henry — August 30, 2017 WASHINGTON — Ground-based observations of PT Telkom’s 18-year old Telkom-1 satellite show a large cloud of debris generated the night the satellite lost contact with customers…
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Troubled AMC 9 Satellite Sheds Debris in Populated Orbit, Regains Contact with Ground Control
July 3, 2017 The stricken AMC 9 communications satellite that suffered a sudden and unexpected anomaly on June 17 has shed at least four pieces of debris according to information…
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