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Kongsberg Exec Atle Wøllo to Lead NanoAvionics as New CEO
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has appointed Atle Wøllo as its new CEO, the company announced Monday. This comes two years after the Norwegian defense firm acquired NanoAvionics, a company that began as a spin-off from Lithuania’s Vilnius University and became a leading small satellite manufacturer. Wøllo is a former Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace executive and was previously…
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Rocket Lab Set to Launch Five IoT Satellites for Kinéis on 50th Electron Mission
Rocket Lab USA, a global company in launch services and space systems, announced the launch window for the Company’s 50th Electron launch. The mission will deploy five Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellites for French company Kinéis. The ‘No Time Toulouse’ mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a…
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China Roundup: Chang’e 6 lands on the Moon, and record-breaking EVA
China’s Chang’e 6 landed on and sampled the far side of the Moon while the Shenzhou-18 crew performed a record-breaking spacewalk at the Tiangong Space Station. Additionally, 10 more rockets were launched from the country in the last few weeks. Chang’e 6 lands on the far side of the Moon China’s sixth uncrewed lunar exploration…
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NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial
NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency put out a call to industry in April to propose ideas on how to return the Mars rocks to Earth for less…
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Starliner crew welcomed aboard space station
Space station commander Oleg Kononenko, flanked on his left by Starliner commander Butch Wilmore and on his right by co-pilot Sunita Williams, anchors a group photo of the lab’s seven long-duration crew members and their two visitors. Back row, left to right: cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, Jeanette Epps and Matthew Dominick; middle row, left to right:…
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Museum of Flight exhibition celebrates 150 years of space station dreams and realities
Retired NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger takes selfies in front of a super-sized space station window in the Museum of Flight’s “Home Beyond Earth” exhibit. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The dream of having people live and work in space didn’t start with billionaire Jeff Bezos, or even with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. Instead, you’d…
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base
A stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites, which included the first six featuring Direct to Cell capabilities. The batch launched on the Starlink 7-9 mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 2, 2024. Image: SpaceX SpaceX kicked off the weekend with the launch of another batch of its Starlink satellites. The mission,…
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U.S. Space Force’s R2C2 Program Accelerates with $1 Billion Small-Business Contract
In a groundbreaking move aimed at accelerating critical space technologies, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO) has awarded a $1 billion Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to 20 small businesses for the development of ground-systems software. The contract, part of the Rapid Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) program, marks a significant shift towards…
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Starship Flight 4 makes a big splash, twice
One of Starship’s aft fins breaking up due to extreme heating. Image: SpaceX Somehow, the fin survived and continued operating through reentry. However, this partial breakup coated the camera with debris and cracked the glass in front of it, blocking our views. Call outs were heard for landing burn start and finish, although without camera…