Two Earth-imagery satellites developed by aerospace company Airbus SE were lost after the rocket they were on failed shortly after liftoff Tuesday night. The two destroyed satellites would have completed an Airbus satellite fleet called Pléiades Neo, which the aerospace company has said provides customers with sophisticated imagery of Earth. The rocket that failed Tuesday night is called Vega C. …
The company is competing against billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to provide fast internet via satellites. A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 36 UK telecommunication and internet satellites blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East on Friday, the space agency said. OneWeb, a London-headquartered company, is working to complete the construction of a constellation …
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