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NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable
In a new report, the federal department charged with analyzing how efficiently US taxpayer dollars are spent, the Government Accountability Office, says NASA lacks transparency on the true costs of its Space Launch System rocket program. Published on Thursday, the new report (see .pdf) examines the billions of dollars spent by NASA on the development…
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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future
New Frontier Aerospace’s chief operating officer, David Gregory (at left), lays his hand on the company’s Mjölnir rocket engine while CEO Bill Bruner strikes what he calls his “Wernher von Braun pose” with a 3D-printed model of the company’s hypersonic rocket ship. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) TUKWILA, Wash. — Thirty years after the first…
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Airline Execs See IFC Business Models as Part of Larger Brand Strategy
DENVER, COLORADO — Providing passengers in-flight internet connectivity (IFC), with live TV and on-demand entertainment streaming services from takeoff to landing is gaining serious momentum in the airline industry. Satellite operators like OneWeb, Intelsat, Viasat and Telesat are among the satellite providers competing to offer IFC services to airlines. According to a Frost and Sullivan…
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Fleet Space Invests in Thor Energy for Mineral Exploration Partnership
Fleet Space Technologies is investing $250,000 into Thor Energy Plc, a mineral exploration company, as part of a collaboration at a site in South Australia. Fleet Space and Thor will perform ambient noise tomography surveys at the Alford East project in South Australia, a prospective site for copper and gold. They will use Fleet’s Exosphere…
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Iceye to Supply Flood and Bushfire Data to Australian Government
The Australian government signed a deal with Iceye for flood and bushfire hazard data across the country. The agreement for access to Iceye’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery will help Australia deal with the impact of flood and bushfire and the nation’s disaster response. Australia estimates that flood and bushfire events caused a $5…
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SES Connects 400 Sites in Mexico With Mobile Backhaul
SES has connected 400 remote villages and communities across Mexico with voice and data services via mobile backhaul. SES announced Thursday the mobile backhaul service via the SES-17 satellite will transmit 2.2 Gbps to hundreds of thousands of residents across the sites, giving these communities 4G network services for the first time. SES-17 is a…
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Verizon Debuts Mobile Network-as-a-Service Vehicle Equipped With Satellite
Verizon has a new private network solution that is a mobile trailer equipped with 4G, 5G, satellite, and edge computing capabilities. The company announced its Mobile Onsite Network-as-a-Service on Thursday, a 10-foot portable trailer. The trailer delivers a private network, private mobile edge compute (MEC), SD-Wan, and satellite connectivity to customer locations. It’s pitched as…
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Chinese astronauts inspire students to pursue dreams
China’s Shenzhou-16 astronauts in the Tiangong space station encouraged the primary and secondary school students across the country on Friday, the first day of the new semester, to chase their dreams. Via a video link, Zhu Yangzhu, the country’s first flight engineer in space, called on students to stay self-motivated, adding that his dream of…
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European official on Ariane 6 debut: “Please allow me to not speculate at this time”
Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket is reaching its decisive phase of testing, officials said this week. This includes a short- and long-duration firing of the rocket’s first stage at European launch facilities in French Guiana, tests that could occur today and about one month from now. “They are really the decisive moments when we see…
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Four-person crew returns to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule
A SpaceX Dragon capsule with a crew of four returning from the International Space Station streaked through the atmosphere over Florida and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, closing out the company’s initial commercial crew contract with NASA. But SpaceX has at least eight more space station crew rotation missions under contract with…