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NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar satellite servicing demo mission
NASA has canceled an over-budget, behind-schedule mission to demonstrate robotic satellite servicing technology in orbit, pulling the plug on a project that has cost $1.5 billion and probably would have cost nearly $1 billion more to get to the launch pad. The On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 mission, known as OSAM-1, would have grappled…
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Viasat Wins IFC Deal for Icelandair’s New Airbus Aircraft
Icelandair has selected Viasat to provide the in-flight connectivity for the airline’s new fleet of Airbus aircraft, Viasat announced Tuesday. This comes after Icelandair ordered 13 Airbus A321XLR planes in July 2023, the airline’s first order of Airbus aircraft. The new fleet is expected to service routes between Iceland and Europe as well as transatlantic…
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Viasat Wins IFC Deal for Icelandair’s New Airbus Aircraft
Icelandair has selected Viasat to provide the in-flight connectivity for the airline’s new fleet of Airbus aircraft, Viasat announced Tuesday. This comes after Icelandair ordered 13 Airbus A321XLR planes in July 2023, the airline’s first order of Airbus aircraft. The new fleet is expected to service routes between Iceland and Europe as well as transatlantic…
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Axelspace Successfully Launches PYXIS Demonstration Satellite
Axelspace Corporation announced the successful launch and orbital insertion of the demonstration satellite “PYXIS,” marking another milestone in the company’s history. PYXIS was launched on March 4, 2024 (PST) on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base (California, USA). Axelspace has received the first voice transmission*1 from PYXIS. It will now proceed through the…
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SpaceX Launches 53 Satellites in First Rideshare Mission of 2024
SpaceX launched 53 payloads in the Falcon 9 Transporter-10 smallsat rideshare mission, SpaceX’s first rideshare mission of 2024. The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 4 at 2:05 p.m. PT. This was the tenth dedicated rideshare mission organized by SpaceX. Aboard the Transporter-10 mission were…
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SpaceX Launches 53 Satellites in First Rideshare Mission of 2024
SpaceX launched 53 payloads in the Falcon 9 Transporter-10 smallsat rideshare mission, SpaceX’s first rideshare mission of 2024. The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 4 at 2:05 p.m. PT. This was the tenth dedicated rideshare mission organized by SpaceX. Aboard the Transporter-10 mission were…
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Crew Dragon docks with space station after smooth rendezvous
Crew Dragon Endeavour approaches the International Space Station carrying three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut. Image: NASA TV. A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station early Tuesday after a 28-hour orbital chase, bringing three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the outpost for a six-month tour of duty.…
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Astroscale Wins New UKSA Study for Refueling Mission
Astroscale will play a key role in a UK Space Agency (UKSA) Active Debris Removal (ADR) Refueling feasibility study. Astroscale has placed a successful bid to lead this study, the company announced March 5. This 2 million pound ($2.54 million) UKSA study is focused on the refueling of the UK’s first active debris removal (ADR)…
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Using Hubble and Webb, scientists investigate galaxies responsible for the reionization of the universe
Utilizing the infrared-sensitive instruments of the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, as well as observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists recently collected the first spectroscopic observations of some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, some being born during the first one billion years of the…