Airbus Defence and Space UK will be testing their new Skynet 6A at the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility. Space Force is opening a new commercial services procurement office in Chantilly, Virginia, that'll be known as COMSO. AT&T has filed with the Federal Communications Commission to lease spectrum to AST SpaceMobile, and more.
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T-Minus Guest
Our guest is Sita Sonty, Partner, Associate Director and Global Space Lead for Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Sita joins us to discuss edge computing in space. You can read her latest article on the subject published by Via Satellite, “Size of the Prize: How Will Edge Computing in Space Drive Value Creation?” Tune in to tomorrow’s episode of T-Minus Deep Space for our full extended interview with Sita.
You can follow Sita on LinkedIn and at Boston Consulting Group’s website.
Selected Reading
UK’s largest satellite testing facility in Oxfordshire welcomes first customers- Business Magazine
Space Force commercial office to open new facility in Virginia- SpaceNews
AT&T Files With FCC to Lease Spectrum to AST SpaceMobile- Via Satellite
Rocket Lab Beats Guidance in Q1, Reporting $55M in Revenue- Via Satellite 
Intuitive Machines prepares for first lunar mission, faces challenge to NASA contract win- TechCrunch
Telesat eyes 2026 for first Lightspeed launches amid funding delays- SpaceNews  
Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River- NASA
Liftoff: Modi's space push for India counts on private players- Reuters 
Chinese rocket scientists conducted frame-by-frame analysis of Starship launch- Interesting Engineering
China’s spaceplane conducted proximity and capture maneuvers with subsatellite, data suggests- SpaceNews
How Satellite Prevented a War for Water- Via Satellite 
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 68% in April, first major drop under Lula- Reuters
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