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Mitsubishi Electric has made a statement of intent by acquiring one of the most talked about companies in the Japanese space sector over the last few years. It is to acquire Infostellar, a company that provides ground segment as a service (GSaaS) offerings for orbiting satellites through its proprietary ground station platform, StellarStation. The platform…

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely that Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule won’t be certified for operational flights to the International Space Station until next year. That’s just three years before NASA’s official retirement date for the ISS in 2030, though lawmakers in Congress…

The Atlas 5 Amazon Leo 8 mission, also designated Leo Atlas 8, lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at 12:30:15 a.m. EDT, flying a north-easterly trajectory. ULA confirmed deployment of all 29 satellites at 1:30 a.m. EDT. The launch supported Amazon’s broadband internet constellation, which relies on multiple launch providers. The 551 designation denotes…

The Amazon Leo constellation now has enough satellites in orbit to support “continuous service across initial latitudes,” after a United Launch Alliance (ULA) mission in the early hours of Thursday.  ULA launched 29 satellites for Amazon Leo in an Atlas V mission that took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30…

Early analysis points to the aft section of the first stage as the origin of the anomaly, consistent with publicly available video footage. Blue Origin has remained circumspect about the root cause while its investigation continues. While major infrastructure such as the lightning tower was lost, critical systems including the tank farm sustained only limited…