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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule
NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location. Or to put it another way: NASA is seeking to learn more about what it would take to remove the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia and relocate it to…
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Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty
Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport in Nova Scotia. Tensions have risen between the United States and Canada of late (for reasons which are baffling to this author,…
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Dogfighting in space won’t look like the movies, but this company wants in on it
If a battle is fought in space, it will look nothing like those depicted in the Star Wars franchise, with sleek TIE fighters blasting enemy ships with laser cannons and mag-pulses. Instead, these battles will be cerebral and unhurried, somewhat like the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, a slow-burning political thriller with a plot…
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SLS enters pad flow ahead of historic Artemis II mission
NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad 39B after an approximately 10-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. Crawler Transporter 2 (CT-2) carried the Moon rocket and its Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1) back to the historic launch site after a slightly…
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Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers
A little more than a month ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk put down a marker of his intent to saturate low-Earth orbit with up to 1 million satellites. Its purpose? Provide always-on data center services around the planet. Now, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has done something similar with a filing to the…
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SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX Update March 20, 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX launched its 30th batch of Starlink satellites this year with a Friday afternoon launch…
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China launches new remote sensing satellite
China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province on Sunday. The Yaogan-50 02 satellite was launched at 9:22 p.m. aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket and has entered its planned orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The satellite will be mainly used…
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Kepler Communications Launches Space-Based Cloud Infrastructure with NVIDIA
Kepler Communications announced the commissioning of distributed on-orbit computing across its Tranche 1 optical data relay constellation, the world’s first commercially operational optical data relay network. This expands the network’s capabilities beyond connectivity to deliver scalable, cloud-like processing directly in space. The Kepler Network integrates optical connectivity, distributed on-orbit computing, and secure payload hosting into…
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Spaceport Nova Scotia Selected Sovereign Launch Site for Canadian National Defense
Maritime Launch Services welcomed the Department of National Defence (DND) as a tenant at Spaceport Nova Scotia, marking a historic milestone in establishing Canada’s sovereign launch capability from Canadian soil. Under the agreement announced by the Government of Canada, DND will lease a dedicated launch pad at Spaceport Nova Scotia to support the operational needs of…
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Flexell and NanoAvionics Sign Multi-Million Euro Solar Array Deal for Korean Satellites
Flexell Space, a South Korean space energy company, has signed a multi-million euro solar array supply contract with Lithuania-based satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics). This strategic partnership agreement covers the supply of deployable kilowatt-class satellite solar arrays for sovereign Low-Earth Orbit national security satellites, built by Hanwha Systems, currently under development…