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Vast’s Haven-1 Commercial Space Station to be Equipped with SpaceX Starlink Network
Vast announced that its Haven-1 is scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station, will be equipped with SpaceX’s Starlink laser terminal providing Gigabit/s speed, low latency connectivity to its crew users, internal payload racks, external cameras, and instruments. “If you need to provide high-speed, low-latency, continuous internet connectivity on a space station in…
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The most metal of rockets has gone into the great mosh pit in the sky
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off for the final time on Tuesday. United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off for the final time on Tuesday. United Launch Alliance The rocket will now go into retirement after 16 flights. United Launch Alliance The rocket will now go into…
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Allied Nations Align Their Messaging for Deterring Conflict in Space
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The importance of allies and partners working together to understand what military deterrence in space activities means, and define what rogue behaviors should trigger deterrence, has become a bigger part of space domain situational awareness. Military commanders, leaders in military intelligence, and commercial industry partners from Canada, Norway, the U.S., and Germany,…
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World Economic Forum Report Paints Bright Future for the Space Economy
The global space economy could be worth close to $2 trillion by 2035. This is according to a new World Economic Forum report released this week. The report says it expects the sector’s valuation to surge up to $1.8 trillion by 2035 and be roughly rival the size and reach of the global semiconductor industry…
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Fleet Space Successfully Deploys Centauri-6 Satellite on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 Mission
Fleet Space Technologies, one of the leading Australian space exploration companies, announced the successful deployment of its next-generation Centauri-6 satellite on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 mission, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The addition of Centauri-6 to Fleet Space’s satellite constellation will play a vital role…
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After a fiery finale, the Delta rocket family now belongs to history
The final flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket took off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Delta IV Heavy, one of the world’s most powerful rockets, launched for the 16th and final time Tuesday. It was the 45th and last flight of…
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2024 Total Solar Eclipse: No photos, videos, or words can do it justice
After a short nap in a Walmart parking lot, a wildlife refuge, and then a quick realization our planned viewing location would be closed, we witnessed something most people never get to see, a total solar eclipse. However, time continues to move forward and what is done is done. For those that witnessed it, what…
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New US Space Force Strategy Outlines Criteria For Commercial Adoption
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The U.S. Space Force on Wednesday released its first strategy for acquiring commercial space capabilities, which include four criteria to guide its decision-making in this area and, as expected, the document does not outline funding plans. The decision-making criteria outlined in The U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Strategy: Accelerating the Purposeful Pursuit of Hybrid…
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Tata Advanced Systems and Satellogic Announce the Successful Launch of TSAT-1A Satellite
Tata Advanced Systems, one of India’s leading private sector players for aerospace and defense solutions, and Satellogic, a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation data collection, announced the successful deployment into space of TASL’s TSAT-1A satellite aboard the Bandwagon-1 mission, which SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida,…
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Raytheon Achieves Key Milestone in Testing of VIIRS Sensor for NASA-NOAA JPSS Program
Raytheon, an RTX business, has completed a major test milestone on its latest Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor. The VIIRS instrument observes and collects global environmental data that spans visible and infrared wavelengths across land, ocean, and atmosphere and is a pivotal part of the NASA-NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series of…