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For the first time, we’re seeing views of China’s entire space station
China’s Tiangong space station orbits nearly 240 miles (380 kilometers) above Earth. China’s Tiangong space station orbits nearly 240 miles (380 kilometers) above Earth. China’s Tiangong space station orbits nearly 240 miles (380 kilometers) above Earth. China Manned Space Agency China’s Tiangong space station orbits nearly 240 miles (380 kilometers) above Earth. China Manned Space…
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A 60 year old rocket engine is getting a face lift with 3D printing
New RL10 to reduce price and increase production This week ULA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, owned by L3Harris, celebrated the RL10 engine’s sixtieth anniversary. With it, the company announced a new version of the engine would fly on a Vulcan rocket in 2025. The RL10C-X, cause every cool new product needs an “X” at the end,…
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DoD Innovation Unit Issues New Hybrid Space Architecture Solicitation
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday issued a solicitation for a hybrid space architecture (HSA) that integrates commercial space sensor and communications capabilities with government space systems for rapid military, civil, and commercial communications across all domains while using commercial best practices for securing and defending the network. The DIU wants commercial solutions, open standards, and…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hardware seen outside Florida factory
Potential New Glenn flight hardware in the wild In a recent fly over of Florida’s Space Coast, NASASpaceflight photographer Max Evans, snapped a photo of what looks to be flight hardware for Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. It sported a clean coat of paint with Blue Origin’s logo and name as well as “New Glenn”…
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Launch Roundup: Soyuz resupplies the ISS; SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites
This week, SpaceX continued its incredible launch cadence with two more launches of Falcon 9, a Soyuz 2.1a resupplied the International Space Station (ISS), and three missions launched consecutively out of China. The week began with Roscosmos launching the Progress MS-25 resupply capsule on a Soyuz 2.1a up to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. …
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Telesat Wins Phase 2 Space-BACN Contract from DARPA
Telesat’s government subsidiary won a Phase 2 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. This new award is a follow-on to the Phase 1 contract that Telesat Government Solutions won in August 2022. In Phase 1, 11 companies were selected for work across three technical areas. Space-BACN…
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Spire Debuts Weather Forecast for Utilities and Commodity Traders
Spire Global is launching a new weather forecast model geared toward the energy and commodity markets. The High-Resolution Weather Forecast model announced Tuesday is designed to provide customizable weather forecasts to help energy traders, commodity traders, utilities, and grid operators anticipate the impact of weather on price dynamics, market trends and energy supply and demand.…
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The State of the Optical Communications Market
Laser communications terminals provide increased data rates, which means they are able to send and receive more information in a single transmission compared to systems based on radio frequency. Future technologies will target scalability and the establishment of a mesh network of interoperable, multi-domain, multi-orbit laser communications. Laser communications have come a long way since…
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XArc and Astroport Receive $1.3 Million in Multiple NASA SBIR/STTR Awards for 2023
Astroport Space Technologies and its parent organization Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) received a combined $1.3M in NASA SBIR/STTR awards for the development of extreme environment landing pad technologies. The SBIR/STTR Phase 1 and Phase 2 awards will focus on the development of lunar construction and operations technologies needed for lunar surface landing/launch pads (LLPs) in…
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Eyes in the Sky: How Satellite Data Transforms Economic Modeling
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently unveiled its PortWatch platform, a groundbreaking application resulting from a collaborative effort with partners such as the World Bank, Oxford University, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and ESRI, which offers the ArcGIS geospatial data analysis software. PortWatch harnesses the power of satellite imagery and satellite enabled Automatic…