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Vast Reveals Final Interior Design for Haven-1 the First Commercial Space Station
Vast, the US-based space habitation technology company pioneering the path to long-term living and thriving in space, unveiled its interior design features aboard Haven-1, the world’s first commercial space station. Vast’s inaugural station combines the functionality of its state-of-the-art facilities for scientific research, technological advancement, and global collaboration in low-Earth orbit (LEO) with its remarkable…
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Anduril and Impulse Space to Collaborate on National Security Space Missions
Defense tech company Anduril Industries is partnering with Impulse Space to integrate the companies’ technologies for national space security missions. Under a new agreement announced Friday, Impulse will provide the Mira orbital transfer vehicle to Anduril, which will integrate its own payloads and other partner systems onto the spacecraft to support classified mission requirements. In…
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Rocket Report: ULA investigating SRB anomaly; Europa Clipper is ready to fly
Welcome to Edition 7.15 of the Rocket Report! It’s a big week for big rockets, with SpaceX potentially launching its next Starship test flight and a Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Europa Clipper mission this weekend. And a week ago, United Launch Alliance flew its second Vulcan rocket, which lost one of its booster nozzles…
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Viasat Delivers ViaSat-3 F1 Satellite Services to U.S. Marine Corps and Commercial Airlines
Viasat, Inc., a global company in satellite communications, announced that it is now delivering ViaSat-3 F1 (VS3 F1) service to the U.S. Marine Corps, marking a government customer’s first use of the ViaSat-3 network. This follows the VS3 F1 satellite, which recently began to deliver services for commercial airline customers operating over North America. The…
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NASA Optical Ground Station Transmitted First Lasercom Uplink to TBIRD
While NASA’s TBIRD lasercom payload completed its mission in September, NASA is still sharing milestones it reached. Before the mission ended, a NASA optical ground station transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD smallsat. The TBIRD payload, built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, was launched in May of 2022 on a Terran Orbital satellite.…
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China launches third high-orbit internet services satellite
China on Thursday sent a new high-orbit internet services satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country’s southwestern Sichuan Province. The satellite was launched at 9:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket and then entered its preset orbit. It is the third member of an internet delivery high-orbit…
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Dragon receives long-planned propulsive landing upgrade after years of development
SpaceX announced a new capability for the Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 27 in the unlikely event of a parachute failure. Dragon now has built-in redundancy to propulsively land using its SuperDraco thrusters, saving the vehicle and potential crew from a rough landing or imminent danger. SpaceX introduced the concept of a propulsive landing Dragon over…
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NATO Surveys the Space Capabilities of Member Nations
As the five step North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Planning Process (NDPP) wends its way over the next year to assigning quantitative space system targets to the alliance’s 32 countries, policymakers may consider having dedicated NATO satellites. The five steps in the four-year NDPP are the establishment of political guidance; requirements determination; the assignment…
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‘We have a telescope!’ Rubin Observatory construction team installs its huge mirror
The Simonyi Survey Telescope now has its mirrors and a camera in place. (Credit: Rubin Observatory) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its mirrors, plus a camera for good measure. Last week’s installation of the telescope’s combined primary/tertiary mirror represented a major…
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Broadcaster Sky Taps SES for More Capacity
SES has signed a new capacity agreement with one of Europe’s biggest DTH players. It has extended its long-standing partnership with Sky through a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighborhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East. SES announced the new deal on Oct. 10. Under the agreement, SES will…