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Spanish Smallsat Launcher PLD Space Closes $28M Funding Round
Read more →: Spanish Smallsat Launcher PLD Space Closes $28M Funding RoundSpanish smallsat launcher in development PLD Space has closed a $28 million oversubscribed Series B funding round, the…
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Relativity Space Taps Microsoft VP for New Software Engineering Role
Read more →: Relativity Space Taps Microsoft VP for New Software Engineering RoleRelativity Space has hired its first vice president of Software Engineering, bringing on Scott Van Vliet, former Microsoft…
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SpaceX’s first launch of 2022 will deploy more Starlink internet satellites
Read more →: SpaceX’s first launch of 2022 will deploy more Starlink internet satellitesFile photo of a stack of Starlink satellites before a previous mission.. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX plans to kick…
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After a year filled with new missions and discoveries, Mars and its robots look ahead to 2022
Read more →: After a year filled with new missions and discoveries, Mars and its robots look ahead to 2022After the successful launch of three new Mars missions in the summer of 2020, Mars exploration was looking…
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Engineers taking more time to assess Webb’s behavior in space before continuing deployments
Read more →: Engineers taking more time to assess Webb’s behavior in space before continuing deploymentsSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Northrop Grumman teams work with the sunshield on the James Webb…
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Webb telescope unfurls diamond-shaped sunshield
Read more →: Webb telescope unfurls diamond-shaped sunshieldEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with one-day delay in sunshield tensioning. Artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope, as it…
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Chinese Mars mission sends photos of the Red Planet
Read more →: Chinese Mars mission sends photos of the Red PlanetThe China National Space Administration published on Saturday four pictures taken by its Tianwen 1 Mars mission, including…
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Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight
Read more →: Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflightJeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after riding Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Blue Origin Photo) For 25…
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Live Blog: Updates on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope historic launch and deployment
Read more →: Live Blog: Updates on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope historic launch and deploymentWhat is launching and how do we watch it? Check out our launch spotlight and how to watch…
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Test launch of Russia’s heavy-lift Angara rocket marred by upper stage failure
Read more →: Test launch of Russia’s heavy-lift Angara rocket marred by upper stage failureAn Angara A5 rocket lifts off Dec. 27 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense The…
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SpaceX raises $337 million in new funding
Read more →: SpaceX raises $337 million in new fundingThe Form D filed with the SEC on Wednesday (via Reuters) revealed that the first sale from this…
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China launches final rocket of the year into orbit
Read more →: China launches final rocket of the year into orbitChina launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province early…