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With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back
The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim at the massive orbiting research complex for a planned stay of six to eight months. Spacecraft commander Zena Cardman leads the mission, designated Crew-11, that lifted off from Florida’s Space…
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LZ-1 receives its final Falcon landing as SpaceX hand over the landing pad
After years of delivering iconic views of Falcon boosters performing Return to Launch Site (RTLS) landings, SpaceX is retiring Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1). The plot of land for LZ-1 was leased to SpaceX for five years by the U.S. Air Force’s 45th Space Wing in February 2015. The concrete pad was constructed later that year…
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Artemis II astronauts discuss mission status ahead of in-capsule training
Scheduled to launch in February 2026, the Artemis II Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are currently at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final integration and stacking. The Artemis II astronauts — comprised of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — recently spoke…
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The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week
Although NASA and its counterpart in Russia, Roscosmos, continue to work together on a daily basis, the leaders of the two organizations have not held face-to-face meetings since the middle of the first Trump administration, back in October 2018. A lot has changed in the nearly eight years since then, including the Russian invasion of…
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Amazon CEO on Kuiper: There Will Be 2 Players in LEO
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors that Amazon is planning to bring Project Kuiper into commercial beta service later this year or early next year, highlighting interest from enterprise and government customers. “We’re working very hard to get the satellites into space,” Jassy said Thursday. “We have some delays with some of the rocket providers,…
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The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert
This is Part 2 of our interview with Col. Raj Agrawal, the former commander of the Space Force’s Space Mission Delta 2. If it seems like there’s a satellite launch almost every day, the numbers will back you up. The US Space Force’s Mission Delta 2 is a unit that reports to Space Operations Command,…
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Space entrepreneurs see defense projects as next frontier for funding and innovation
The Golden Dome is envisioned as a network of satellite sensors and interceptors that could protect America from incoming missiles. (Lockheed Martin Illustration) Will the Golden Dome be a golden opportunity for commercial space ventures? That may be a bit of an exaggeration. But at a Seattle Tech Week presentation on the space industry, a…
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SFL Missions to Develop Maritime Monitoring Satellite for Norway
SFL Missions Inc. will develop a microsatellite for the Norwegian Space Agency for maritime ship tracking under a contract announced July 29. The AISSat-4 satellite, targeted for lunch in less than a year, will add capacity to Norway’s maritime situational awareness network. SFL said AISSat-4 is being developed on its Spartan 6U nanosatellite platform and…
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EchoStar Orders $1.3B D2D Constellation from MDA Space
EchoStar is moving forward with plans for a standards-based direct-to-device (D2D) constellation, placing an initial $1.3 billion order with Canadian manufacturer MDA Space for 100 Aurora satellites. The contract announced Aug. 1 is for 100 satellites, but EchoStar plans to expand it to 200 satellites to even thousands of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The…