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year, which included advertising-supported Pandora music streaming.

Maxar is a leading maker of large geostationary communications satellites, having made orbiters for EchoStar, SiriusXM and others.

Earlier this month two communications satellites Maxar built for McLean, Virginia-based Intelsat launched. The Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 satellites are the first of five that Intelsat is launching for its communications services.

Two more Maxar-built satellites, Intelsat’s Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36, are scheduled to launch later this month. By Greg Avery – Denver Business Journal

Autoliv Launches Holistic Approach To Motorcycle Safety To Save More Lives

Autoliv, Inc., the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, is looking beyond the car and developing a series of products to significantly improve motorcycle safety. The concepts include the world’s first motorcycle helmet with an integrated airbag for enhanced head protection in collaboration with AIROH, airbags for protective clothing, and a motorcycle airbag.

Instead of focusing on one specific safety product, Autoliv

Research has identified the types of severe injuries that are most frequently sustained by motorcycle riders. The injury mechanisms were then reproduced in virtual and physical testing. Based on insights derived from the tests, two sets of new safety solutions were developed: on-vehicle- and on-rider safety solutions.

“To substantially reduce the number of motorcycle rider injuries and fatalities, we need to take a holistic approach where we investigate several combined countermeasures. We have always developed our products based on real world data to ensure the benefit for the end user. We intend to use the same approach to other mobility modes, like motorcycle riders, to save more lives”, said Mikael Bratt, President, and CEO of Autoliv.

Together with Italian helmet manufacturer AIROH, Autoliv has studied and developed a concept of a motorcycle helmet with an integrated airbag. Autoliv’s testing shows that the peak linear head acceleration and head injury risk in an impact can be significantly reduced by utilizing airbag technology. In addition, Autoliv is focused on improving chest and shoulder protection for motorcycle riders, primarily to protect a rider that is ejected from a motorcycle. Consequently, Autoliv is developing inflators and airbags for highquality protective clothing such as rider jackets.

Orion spacecraft buzzes moon, earns high marks from NASA

NASA's newest spacecraft buzzed the surface of the moon early Monday, bringing a spaceship for people into lunar orbit for the first time in decades.

The Orion capsule, designed and developed by Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space, passed 81 miles above the lunar surface and flew to the correct position to orbit the moon six days after its nighttime launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NASA officials give the Colorado-born spacecraft stellar grades for its performance, saying the Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without crew on board, has gone according to plan and exceeded expectations.

Lockheed Martin Space, NASA and their various industry and international partners have run countless simulations and modeled missions in the seven years of preparation for this flight.

Even so, flying a spacecraft far from Earth, where its exposed to space radiation, is different than the countless simulations run in test labs at the company’s Waterton Canyon campus and at NASA’s mission control center in Houston, said Mike Hawes, Lockheed Martin Space’s vice president and director of human space flight.

“We’re learning a few things,” he said. “We haven’t flown a spacecraft likes this in the lunar environment for 50 years.”

The Orion capsule blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Nov. 16, riding the 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket — the largest NASA has ever flown.

The Artemis 1 mission is considered the first step in NASA’s program returning U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon. That mission, scheduled for no sooner than mid2025, will include the first woman and the first person of color to set foot on the moon, NASA says.

Lockheed Martin Space designed and built Orion capsules to be NASA’s first spacecraft to fly beyond the moon, into the solar system and eventually to Mars.

The 21,000-employee division of Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. (first won a contract to design and build the capsules in 2006.