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20 years after Columbia disaster, lessons learned still in sharp focus at NASA
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The seven-person crew of the space shuttle Columbia in orbit during their 16-day science mission. From left to right (in red): Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark; (in blue): David Brown, William McCool, and Michael Anderson. Credit: NASA Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003,…
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Tiphaine Louradour to Leave ILS International Launch Services
Tiphaine Louradour, president of ILS International Launch Services (ILS), is departing the company, ILS announced Tuesday. Louradour took the lead at ILS in March 2020 and has been at the helm of the company through the pandemic and geopolitical constraints due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. ILS is a U.S. company headquartered in Reston, Virginia,…
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Iridium Rolls Out More Capable GO! Device for Off the Grid Personal Connectivity
Iridium Communications is rolling out a new portable wireless access device called Iridium GO! exec, an upgraded version of the Iridium GO! device that lets customers use their smartphones like a satellite phone in remote locations. The GO! exec is a small portable personal communications device that can fit in a laptop carrier or backpack…
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Nigeria first African country to gain Starlink connectivity
This may seem a bit confusing if you remember that Starlink officially made its way to all seven continents last year. While some parts of the African continent had service, this was limited to islands such as Réunion, which is a region of France, and Madeira, which is part of Portugal. Nigeria is the first…
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On Orbit’s Future Space Economy Series: Infrastructure for a New Frontier
The second episode of On Orbit’s Future Space Economy webcast features Sidus Space Founder and CEO Carol Craig, Kepler CEO Mina Mitry, Orbit Fab CDO Jeremy Schiel, SpaceRyde CEO Sohrab Haghighat, and BCG’s Sita Sonty in a discussion about financing, building, and networking complex infrastructure in space. The Future Space Economy is, at its core,…
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Science fiction focuses on the far future of terraforming, with a tie-in to today’s cities
An artist’s conception shows a city taking shape on Mars. (SpaceX Illustration) Billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of making Mars more like Earth, or seeing millions of people living and working in space — but could such dreams ever be turned into reality? In a new novel titled “The Terraformers,” science…
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NASA discovers Mars formation resembling the face of a bear
The University of Arizona, which operates the camera, shared the image in a tweet with a report breaking down how exactly the bear was formed. The eyes of the feature are two impact craters. The “V-shaped collapse structure” resembling a snout is a hill. And the circular facial pattern that outlines the head “might be due to…
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LeoLabs West Australian Space Radar is Now in Service
LeoLabs entered a new space radar into service, the West Australian Space Radar (WASR), giving the company coverage of the Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific region. The new site will enable better tracking and monitoring of median to high inclination resident space objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), along with the Kiwi Space Radar in New…
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Starlink satellites, Italian space tug launched by SpaceX rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday from California’s Central Coast with 49 Starlink internet satellites and a rideshare space tug for the Italian company D-Orbit, itself carrying tech demo experiments and cremated human…
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