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The Centro para el Desarrollo tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) Innovation has launched the 2024 call for the Space Technology Program (PTE) focused on promoting the competitiveness of the Spanish aerospace industry as a key actor for the next challenges and opportunities of the sector through the development of technological capabilities based on research and development. The call falls under the scope of Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) Aerospace.

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to analyze ocean data as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.

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China Launches Beijing-3C Remote-Sensing Satellite Constellation - SpaceWatch.Global

Ibadan, 21 May 2024. ⁘ China has launched the Beijing-3C satellite constellation aboard the Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, sending four Beijing-3 optical remote sensing satellites into orbit. This was the 523rd flight mission of the Long March rocket series. The Long March-2D carrier rocket also previously launched Beijing-3A and Beijing-3B satellites into orbit.

The Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation developed the Beijing-3C satellite constellation to provide high spatial and temporal resolution remote sensing satellite data. After the constellation becomes operational, the four satellites will operate in an equal-phase network to support land and resources management, agricultural resource surveys, ecological environment monitoring, comprehensive urban applications and other fields.

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NASA Selects BAE Systems to Develop Ocean Color Instrument

Ibadan, 21 May 2024. ⁘ NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace ⁘ Technologies Corporation) to develop an instrument to analyze ocean data as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.

This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $450 million. Furthermore, it includes the development of two flight instruments as well as options for additional units. The anticipated performance period for the contract includes support for 10 years of on-orbit operations and five years of on-orbit storage, for a total of 15 years for each flight model. The work will take place at BAE Systems, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Ibadan, 21 May 2024. ⁘ The Centro para el Desarrollo tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) Innovation has launched the 2024 call for the Space Technology Program (PTE) focused on promoting the Spanish aerospace industry's competitiveness as a key actor in the space sector through the development of technological capabilities based on research and development. The call falls under the scope of Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) Aerospace.

The program includes EUR 70 million in subsidies from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism of the PRTR Addendum. As a result, applications are open until June 19, 2024, and projects may receive up to 100% advance payment of the aid once the CDTI approves the concession.

The financing program will focus on projects in the new space-satellite constellations and bottom-up space technology maturation areas. As a result, the New space project area will get EUR 30 million for R⁘D projects to develop new products, processes or services that allow considerable improvement in the mass production capacity of space systems, especially those of a strategic nature for Spanish positioning and leadership in the global operation of future satellite services.

On the other hand, the space technology maturation project area will get a pool of EUR 40 million for projects that promote progress in the level of maturity of space technologies, especially those with a high disruptive potential, which will generate a large recurrence of use and/or commercial or enable the development of cutting-edge scientific instrumentation for future space science missions.