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Space ISAC: Cyber Warfare, Space Weather Keep Threat Levels High for Industry
Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has reaffirmed its recommendation to maintain the Threat Level at Level 3 which is High for the space industry. It said the purpose of this announcement is to raise awareness of the space industry, government, and international partner perspective on the current threat level. Space ISAC confirmed…
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European Space Agency Partners with Vast for Future Human Spaceflight Missions in LEO
Space station manufacturer Vast and the European Space Agency (ESA) will collaborate to accelerate human spaceflight missions in LEO under the terms of a new partnership agreement announced June 6. The agreement outlines the parties’ intention to foster human spaceflight, science, technology and commercialization development and explore collaboration in LEO destinations other than the International…
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Space Pioneer Secures $207 Million for Reusable Rocket, Targets Megaconstellation Contracts
Chinese commercial space company Space Pioneer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., Ltd, has announced a successful funding round worth more than 1.5 billion yuan ($207 million) on June 6. This investment, termed “C+,” involves at least 15 investors, including private equity and state-linked investment entities. The funding will primarily support the development and…
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Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ picture, dies in plane crash at 90
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders adjlusts his helmet while suiting up for his 1968 moon mission. (NASA Photo) Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as seen from lunar orbit, died today in a plane crash in waters off the San Juan Islands. The 90-year-old spaceflier’s son, Greg…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Continues Mars Sample Collection as Return Mission Plans Evolve
Efforts to collect samples on Mars using the Perseverance rover are ongoing, even as NASA reevaluates the timeline and approach for returning those samples to Earth. Since its landing on Mars in February 2021, the Perseverance rover has filled 26 of its 43 sample tubes, with 20 containing rock cores, two containing regolith, and one…
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Vast and ESA Sign MoU to Collaborate on Future Vast Space Stations
During ILA Berlin, ESA and Vast signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future Vast space stations. The agreement outlines the parties’ intention to foster human spaceflight, science, technology, and commercialization development and explore collaboration in low-earth orbit destinations other than the International Space Station. The collaboration will initially focus on exploring opportunities for access to…
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Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Docks with the International Space Station
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams successfully docked Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), about 26 hours after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The astronauts monitored Starliner as it autonomously conducted a series of maneuvers to steadily bring the spacecraft closer to the orbiting laboratory before docking.…
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RTX Supplies Blue Canyon Satellites for NASA PREFIRE Polar Climate Mission
RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits into space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Blue Canyon provided two heritage 6U CubeSats…
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Rocket Report: Starliner soars to space station; Starship’s wild flight
Welcome to Edition 6.47 of the Rocket Report! The monumental news of late is that Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft not only successfully launched on an Atlas V rocket, but then subsequently docked with the International Space Station. Congratulations to all involved. It’s been a long road to get here. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and…
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SpaceX Starship Achieves Key Milestones with Fourth Successful Flight Test
SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to the return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data. On June 6, 2024, Starship successfully lifted off at 7:50 a.m. CT from Starbase…