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Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’
Read more →: Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, discusses his vision for space settlement with GeekWire’s Alan…
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Startup Space Spotlight: Israel’s NSLComm is Supercharging Smallsat Bandwidth
Read more →: Startup Space Spotlight: Israel’s NSLComm is Supercharging Smallsat BandwidthIsraeli aerospace startup NSLComm has achieved what it considers to be an industry first. It has developed a flexible…
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China’s BeiDou-3 Satellite Network Up and Running, State Officials Confirm
Read more →: China’s BeiDou-3 Satellite Network Up and Running, State Officials ConfirmThe first eight of 35 planned BeiDou-3 satellites have formed a functioning network, as first reported by Maritime…
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fires up rocket for another step toward spaceflight
Read more →: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fires up rocket for another step toward spaceflightVirgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space plane fires up its hybrid rocket motor during a test flight. (MarsScientific.com and…
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DigitalGlobe Releases Commercial Version of Geospatial Big Data (GBDX) Notebooks
Read more →: DigitalGlobe Releases Commercial Version of Geospatial Big Data (GBDX) NotebooksDigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, has announced the commercial release of Geospatial Big Data (GBDX) Notebooks, allowing customers…
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Madison Dearborn Partners, CoVant Acquire LinQuest
Read more →: Madison Dearborn Partners, CoVant Acquire LinQuestMadison Dearborn Partners (MDP) and CoVant Management have acquired military satellite communications prime contractor LinQuest Corporation.The company’s management,…
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Gogo, Iridium Partner to Deliver Global L-band Service
Read more →: Gogo, Iridium Partner to Deliver Global L-band ServiceIridium Communications has announced Gogo as the newest value-added manufacturer for Iridium Certus aviation terminals. As an Iridium…
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Branson pride in VSS Unity’s test flight success
Read more →: Branson pride in VSS Unity’s test flight successVirgin Galactic’s VSS Unity conducted her second powered test flight on Tuesday, taking another step towards being ready…
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Cygnus OA-9E delivers the science, won’t be used as experiment module this flight
Read more →: Cygnus OA-9E delivers the science, won’t be used as experiment module this flightJust a few days after berthing to the International Space Station, the S.S. J.R. Thompson Cygnus is now…
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How do we get our message across to the extraterrestrials? The answers are evolving
Read more →: How do we get our message across to the extraterrestrials? The answers are evolvingAstronomers and artists sent a binary-coded radio transmission in the direction of an extrasolar planet known as GJ273…
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SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says
Read more →: SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk saysA camera mounted on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket shows the deployment of two prototype Starlink satellites in February.…
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Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86
Read more →: Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Former astronaut Alan Bean in his Houston art studio. Credit: Smithsonian…