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Virgin Orbit to Sell Assets to Rocket Lab, Launcher, and Stratolaunch in Bankruptcy Deal
Rocket Lab, Launcher, and Stratolaunch have won bids to purchase assets from Virgin Orbit, according to bankruptcy filings released Tuesday. The auction took place on May 22, and the sale hearing took place Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Virgin Orbit will cease operations with the sale. Rocket Lab…
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Umbra Selected by DARPA for Digital Radar Image Formation Technology (DRIFT) Program
The Department of Defense’s research and development organization, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has selected Umbra as one of its partners for their Digital Radar Image Formation Technology (DRIFT) program. This partnership is a vital part of DARPA’s mosaic warfare vision and aims to demonstrate advanced capabilities to create competitive asymmetries for U.S.…
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Addressing the Bottleneck in the Launch Market
We know launching rockets isn’t easy. It never has been, and even though spaceports and launch providers are emerging at an impressive clip, it remains a tough market to crack. With a slew of launch failures in recent months, there are now an inevitable set of delays as companies look to get their satellites up…
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Saudi Space Commission Announces the Arrival of Saudi Astronauts at the International Space Station
Two Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni and the mission team crew have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), after their spacecraft Dragon 2 successfully docked. NASA has announced the successful docking of Dragon 2 after 16 hours of the rocket launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The docking…
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Axiom Space’s Second Private Mission to the International Space Station Successfully Launched
Four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), the second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 5:37 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled…
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ABS Finds New Teleport Partner in EMEA
ABS is expanding its presence in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The company announced May 21 that it has a new teleport partner in Cyprus, Cyta, which offers satellite access and international extensions globally through a resilient broadband network with integrated security, flexibility and scalability. ABS has successfully migrated its telemetry, tracking…
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Axiom’s second private astronaut mission docks at International Space Station
SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking Monday. Credit: Axiom / SpaceX / NASA Four commercial space fliers who launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Axiom’s second private astronaut mission Sunday arrived at the International Space Station on a SpaceX crew capsule Monday to start an eight-day stay full of…
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InnaLabs Introduces New Radiation Hardened Quartz Accelerometer for Space Applications
InnaLabs, a high-technology SME company renowned for space, aerospace, land, marine, and emerging technology markets with products such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and systems has introduced a new Quartz Accelerometer for space applications. AQUILA is a radiation-hardened Hi-Rel Accelerometer that is based on InnaLab’s successful Quartz Pendulum accelerometer products and heritage. As Europe’s first designed and…
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Axiom-2 liftoffs with first Saudi woman astronaut
First Saudi female astronaut takes flight Axiom-2’s crew consisted of four members from two different countries. Of course, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is commanding the mission, with the other US member being Dragon’s pilot, John Shoffner. The other two crew members were professional astronauts from Saudi Arabia, which is not an ISS member country,…
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SpaceX launches 10th crewed mission, third fully commercial flight
SpaceX on Sunday evening launched a commercial mission to the International Space Station carrying four people, including former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. This “Axiom-2” mission was commanded by Whitson and carried a paying customer named John Shoffner, who served as pilot, as well as two Saudi Arabian mission specialists, Ali al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. Shoffner…