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Four concepts chosen for NASA’s Pioneers program
Read more →: Four concepts chosen for NASA’s Pioneers programNASA has selected four astrophysics mission concepts that will be in the running to join its Pioneers program.…
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Nokia Deploys Globalstar’s Band 53 Spectrum at Port of Seattle
Read more →: Nokia Deploys Globalstar’s Band 53 Spectrum at Port of SeattleGlobalstar revealed Jan. 7 that business partner Nokia entered into an agreement with Tideworks Technology to deploy Globalstar’s Band…
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New image of Mars’ Valles Marineris reveals its enormous scale
Read more →: New image of Mars’ Valles Marineris reveals its enormous scaleValles Marineris, also known as Mariner Valley, is a vast, expansive canyon covering a quarter of Mars’ equator.…
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EU Needs to Pick One Mission for European LEO Constellation
Read more →: EU Needs to Pick One Mission for European LEO ConstellationOn December 23, shortly before the holidays, I received a press release that headlined: “European space and digital…
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NASA selects potential small-scale astrophysics missions, Hubble measures exoplanet’s odd orbit
Read more →: NASA selects potential small-scale astrophysics missions, Hubble measures exoplanet’s odd orbitThe Hubble Space Telescope has successfully measured the highly eccentric and distant orbit of an exoplanet circling a…
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Virgin Orbit will launch a test rocket from the wing of a 747 plane as soon as Wednesday
Read more →: Virgin Orbit will launch a test rocket from the wing of a 747 plane as soon as WednesdayJanuary 7: VO now has a more firm date of Wednesday, January 13. Virgin Orbit has announced the…
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SpinLaunch expanding team at Spaceport America to prepare for unique test launch
Read more →: SpinLaunch expanding team at Spaceport America to prepare for unique test launchSpinLaunch is a company founded in 2014 to develop a new way to launch payloads into space. Now…
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ESA Director General Jan Woerner to Step Down Early
Read more →: ESA Director General Jan Woerner to Step Down EarlyEuropean Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jan Woerner has decided to step down from his position at the…
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SpaceX delivers for Turkey in first launch of 2021
Read more →: SpaceX delivers for Turkey in first launch of 2021Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into space from Cape Canaveral and…
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Airbus Closed 2020 With Intelsat OneSat Order, Forecasts More Deals This Year
Read more →: Airbus Closed 2020 With Intelsat OneSat Order, Forecasts More Deals This YearLast year, Airbus had the target of selling three of its new flexible OneSat satellites to customers around…
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Looking back on the failed ‘Mars One’ project
Read more →: Looking back on the failed ‘Mars One’ projectBack in 2011, a company called Mars One was founded by a small private Dutch organization with a…
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SN9: Latest SpaceX Starship prototype fires engines up for the first time, test success uncertain
Read more →: SN9: Latest SpaceX Starship prototype fires engines up for the first time, test success uncertainThe last big test before Starship SN9’s flight was conducted on Wednesday with the static fire of all…