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Russia launches space station cargo ship
A Soyuz 2.1a rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying a Progress cargo ship loaded with 5,500 pounds of equipment, supplies and propellant bound for the International Space Station. Image: NASA TV. A Russian Progress cargo ship loaded with more than 5,500 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station blasted…
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Sierra Space’s Shooting Star Module Commences Testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility
Sierra Space, a pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced the commencement of a comprehensive testing campaign for the Shooting Star cargo module at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. This pivotal phase of testing aims to validate the spacecraft’s resilience to the demands of…
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Intelsat Wins American Airlines IFC Deal to Connect 500 Regional Jets
Intelsat will equip nearly 500 American Airlines regional jets with satellite in-flight connectivity under a deal announced Nov. 30. American currently offers high-speed Wi-Fi on more than 900 mainline aircraft, and this update to regional aircraft will bring the number of satellite-connected aircraft to more than 1,400. Intelsat’s solution includes its multi-orbit electronically steered array…
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Rocket Report: A mysterious explosion in China; Firefly tests new engine
Welcome to Edition 6.21 of the Rocket Report! Someone is always watching, and it’s more difficult than ever to hide bad news. This is one of my mantras as a reporter who will always come down on the side of transparency. We’ve seen space companies and government agencies in the United States try to downplay…
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Redwire’s Onboard Computer Powers ESA’s Hera Mission Studying DART’s Planetary Defense Impact
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world’s first planetary defense test mission, launched two years ago on November 24, 2021. With Redwire’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) and digital sun sensors onboard, DART made history when it successfully impacted the moonlet of binary asteroid Didymos in September of 2022 to adjust its speed and…
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Ursa Major Raises $138 Million for Launching Solid Rocket Motor Line
Ursa Major, one of America’s leading privately funded companies focused solely on rocket propulsion, announced that it closed $138 million in its Series D and D-1 funding rounds. The investments were led by Explorer 1 Fund and Eclipse, and include RTX Ventures, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Exor Ventures, Mack & Co., LLC, XN,…
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Telesat Government Solutions Secures DARPA Space-BACN Phase 2 Contract
Telesat Government Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of leading satellite operator Telesat, announced that it was awarded the Phase 2 contract of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. The goal of Space-BACN is to create a reconfigurable, multi-protocol inter-satellite optical communications terminal that is low in size, weight,…
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Hubble placed in safe mode after continued gyro troubles [U: Back up]
Update: Hubble has returned to science operations while NASA still investigates what caused the issue. NASA investigating source of gyro troubles It appears that over the last week NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has run into some troubles with one of its gyros… again. The historic space telescope received five brand new gyroscopes (gyros), which it…
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China completes initial set-up of first high-orbit satellite internet
China has completed the initial set-up of its first high-orbit satellite internet, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Following the launch of a group of high-throughput communication satellites, the high-orbit satellite internet fully covers the whole territory of China and key areas of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) participating countries.…
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Chang’e 5 lunar samples put on display in Macao
Lunar samples retrieved by China’s Chang’e 5 robotic mission went on display in Macao on Tuesday, marking the first time any lunar samples have been brought to the city for public exhibition. The samples, contained in a specially built glass case and closely guarded, can be viewed by members of the public at the Macao…