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Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25
Russia’s space agency successfully launched a robotic spacecraft Thursday on a journey to the Moon, the country’s first lunar explorer since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976. The Luna 25 mission lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, located in Russia’s Far East, at 7:10 pm ET (23:10 UTC). Heading east, a…
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Northrop Grumman Completes Major Milestone in Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission
Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered two major components of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) and has started the next phase of pre-launch preparations. This two-satellite constellation will deliver protected satellite communications to the Northern polar region – one of the most difficult locations on Earth to deliver communications. The most recent accomplishments include: Successful…
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SES Partners with Quanta in Brazil, Secures C-Band Certification from the FCC
SES has revealed details of a new content deal in Latin America. It is partnering with Quanta, that will see the two companies interconnect their content delivery networks for sports and events customers operating in Latin America. SES announced details of the partnership Aug. 10. Quanta’s newly-inaugurated teleport in São Paolo has been interconnected with…
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True Anomaly Selects Redwire to Provide Cameras and Navigation Technology for its Orbital Vehicle
Redwire is continuing to enable today’s most ambitious national security space missions through a wide range of mission-critical systems and capabilities. During a panel at Small Satellite Conference 2023, Redwire announced that it was selected by True Anomaly, a technology company revolutionizing space security and sustainability with fully-integrated hardware and software, to provide navigation technology…
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Most distant star ever detected seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Earendel was first discovered last year by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star is located so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it did when the universe was just 7 percent of its current age. “The smallest objects previously seen at such a great…
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Russia shoots for the Moon for the first time since 1976
The Soyuz rocket carrying Luna 25 lifts off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Russia launched its first robotic mission to the moon since 1976 on Thursday. The Luna 25 spacecraft, also known as the Luna-Glob-Lander lifted off at 7:10 p.m. EDT (2310 UTC). The lander’s mission is to touchdown north of Boguslawsky crater near the south…
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Firefly Aerospace Showcases New Elytra Orbital Vehicles with Enhanced On-Orbit Mobility
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced the expansion of its on-orbit services with a line of highly mobile and scalable orbital vehicles named Elytra. As the wings of a firefly, Elytra (pronounced ella-truh) offers on-orbit mobility, hosting, delivery, and servicing across cislunar space and beyond. When launched on Firefly’s small- and medium-lift launch…
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Pale Blue to Supply Water-Based Propulsion Systems for Yonsei University
Pale Blue, a space tech company focused on innovative propulsion technology has been awarded a new contract with Yonsei University in South Korea to provide the Resistojet (0.5U-sized water vapor) propulsion system for a pair of 6U satellites. The propulsion system will be used to do formation flying for a laser crosslink system between the…
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Virgin Galactic flies its first space tourists
Anastatia Mayers, 18, takes in the view from nearly 55 miles up as she, her mother Keisha Schahaff, 46, Jon Goodwin, 80, and three Virgin Galactic crew members enjoy three to four minutes of weightlessness in the company’s seventh sub-orbital spaceflight, the first with commercial space tourists aboard. Image: Virgin Galactic. A mother and daughter…
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It’s finally time—Virgin Galactic is flying private astronauts into space
SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico—On Thursday morning, Virgin Galactic plans to fly private citizens into space for the first time. The company’s VSS Unity spacecraft is due to be released from its carrier aircraft after 9 am local time (15:00 UTC), and it will then rocket above an altitude of 80 km. The vehicle will carry…