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US Congress recommends placing assets at Lagrange points to counter China
A bipartisan committee in the US House of Representatives recently issued a report on the economic and technological competition between the United States and China and offered nearly 150 recommendations to “fundamentally reset” the relationship. The report followed a year-long study of the competition between the countries since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization…
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AWS Ground Station Opens New Antenna Location in Alaska
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new ground station in Alaska for its AWS Ground Station managed service. This is the 12th ground station in the global network, which allows satellite operator customers to control satellite communications and process satellite data without building their own network of ground stations. The Alaska location is notable because…
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AWS Ground Station Opens New Antenna Location in Alaska
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new ground station in Alaska for its AWS Ground Station managed service. This is the 12th ground station in the global network, which allows satellite operator customers to control satellite communications and process satellite data without building their own network of ground stations. The Alaska location is notable because…
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Axiom Space Collaborates with Kepler Space and Skyloom for World’s First Orbital Data Center
The Houston-based company Axiom Space has entered agreements with Kepler Communications US and Skyloom Global Corp. to integrate and demonstrate high data rate Optical Intersatellite Links (OISLs) on the first module of Axiom Space’s commercial space station – Axiom Station. In parallel, the Axiom Space team is building the world’s first scalable, cloud technology-enabled, commercial…
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Equatorial Launch Australia Unveils Completed Designs for Multi-Rocket Reusable Launch Pads
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has released completed designs for its state-of-the-art launch pads – a world first in launch pad design allowing any NewSpace rocket to be quickly and seamlessly mated with the pivot base of the pad – enabling all seven Space Launch Complexes (SLCs) at the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) to launch any…
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Daily Telescope: A colorful Christmas tree in the night sky
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a…
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Blue Origin Successfully Completes 24th New Shepard Mission to Space
Blue Origin successfully completed its 24th New Shepard flight and 13th payload mission from Launch Site One in West Texas. The flight carried 33 payloads from NASA, academia, research institutions, and commercial companies, bringing the number of payloads flown on New Shepard to more than 150. Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s nonprofit, flew 38,000…
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White House Introduces Novel Space Activities Framework
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced a new U.S. policy for novel space activities — private sector activities that are not directly regulated under the current U.S. regulatory system. The policy was unveiled Dec. 20 at the third National Space Council meeting. The White House said the U.S. Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision…
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White House Introduces Novel Space Activities Framework
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced a new U.S. policy for novel space activities — private sector activities that are not directly regulated under the current U.S. regulatory system. The policy was unveiled Dec. 20 at the third National Space Council meeting. The White House said the U.S. Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision…
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Via Satellite’s Top Stories of 2023
The past year saw a number of shakeups in the satellite industry — like the Viasat/Inmarsat merger and Steve Collar leaving SES. Both of those operators are also dealing with in-orbit anomalies on their next-generation satellites. At the same time, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations like Starlink, Kuiper, and Lightspeed moved forward, and the satellite industry…