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Astroscale Looks to Oil, Nuclear Industries for End-of-Life Research
Read more →: Astroscale Looks to Oil, Nuclear Industries for End-of-Life ResearchAstroscale has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a professor at Northumbria University Newcastle in England to investigate…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Completes First Test Flight from Spaceport America
Read more →: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Completes First Test Flight from Spaceport AmericaOn Friday May 1, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company completed the first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America…
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Report: Amazon Circles Bankrupt OneWeb Assets
Read more →: Report: Amazon Circles Bankrupt OneWeb AssetsAmazon is circling crashed satellite company OneWeb, the British firm backed by Sir Richard Branson and SoftBank, The Sunday Telegraph can…
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Blue Origin preparing to enter the orbital arena
Read more →: Blue Origin preparing to enter the orbital arenaBlue Origin has been making significant progress on the structures, systems, propulsion, and infrastructure supporting their New Glenn…
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Virgin Orbit’s first launch could happen later this month
Read more →: Virgin Orbit’s first launch could happen later this monthVirgin Orbit’s carrier jet, named Cosmic Girl, takes off April 12 from the Mojave Air and Space Port…
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Kratos Receives Contract to Monitor Space Force Bandwidth
Read more →: Kratos Receives Contract to Monitor Space Force BandwidthKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a contract for satellite bandwidth utilization services for the…
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NASA confirms it’s working with Tom Cruise (and SpaceX?) to make a movie on space station
Read more →: NASA confirms it’s working with Tom Cruise (and SpaceX?) to make a movie on space stationTom Cruise played a drone repairman who turned into an action hero in the 2013 sci-fi movie “Oblivion.”…
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China to debut new version of powerful Long March 5 rocket this week
Read more →: China to debut new version of powerful Long March 5 rocket this weekA view of the next-generation Chinese crew spacecraft during pre-launch processing. Credit: CCTV A prototype for China’s next-generation…
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Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assets
Read more →: Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assetsAn artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (Credit: OneWeb) London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Amazon…
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SpaceX aces last Dragon parachute test before crew launch
Read more →: SpaceX aces last Dragon parachute test before crew launchA Crew Dragon mass simulator descends under four main parachutes during a drop test Friday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX…
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NASA, SpaceX enters the critical month of May on track to end the gap
Read more →: NASA, SpaceX enters the critical month of May on track to end the gapWith the news SpaceX completed the 27th and the final test of the upgraded Mark-3 parachutes for the…
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Hopeful for launch next year, NASA aims to resume SLS operations within weeks
Read more →: Hopeful for launch next year, NASA aims to resume SLS operations within weeksA crane hoisted the Space Launch System core stage into the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space…