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Starship Block 3 and HLS: The path to get back to the Moon
Amid numerous questions about whether SpaceX can have the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship ready in time for Artemis 3, the company released a significant amount of information on its progress with HLS and Starship in relation to the Artemis Program. Starship Human Landing System (HLS) SpaceX recently released an update regarding Starship…
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Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”
As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt…
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China launches crewed Shenzhou-21 mission
China has launched its tenth crew to the Tiangong space station. This was the 16th crewed spaceflight for China’s Shenzhou program overall, which has continually occupied the orbiting outpost since June 2021. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced the names of the three taikonauts the day before launch. Shenzhou-21 will be commanded by Zhang…
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NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back
About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday. The X-59 Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is designed to decrease the noise of a sonic boom when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, paving the way for future…
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SpaceX teases simplified Starship as alarms sound over Moon landing delays
SpaceX on Thursday released the most detailed public update in nearly two years on its multibillion-dollar contract to land astronauts on the Moon for NASA, amid growing sentiment that China is likely to beat the United States back to the lunar surface with humans. In a lengthy statement published on SpaceX’s website Thursday, the company…
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Unibap Space Solutions and Leonardo to Collaborate on Space-Based ISR
Swedish space computing company Unibap Space Solutions announced a deal with Leonardo this week to collaborate on space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems. The companies plan to conduct a joint technical study focused on integrating Unibap’s edge computing solutions into Leonardo’s future Earth observations space infrastructures and developing Unibap’s solutions along a joint roadmap,…
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Watchdog Calls for FCC to Reject SpaceX Spectrum Buy, Investigate Musk’s Ties to China
Watchdog group Frequency Forward is calling for the FCC to deny SpaceX’s purchase of EchoStar spectrum and investigate Elon Musk’s business ties to the Chinese government. The group filed a petition to deny with the FCC on Oct. 30, over SpaceX’s $17 billion deal to buy EchoStar spectrum licenses to bolster its direct-to-cell services. “The…
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Iceye Launches New Tasking Product for Tactical Use Cases
Iceye has a new satellite imagery tasking product geared toward short notice for critical operations, calling it Tactical Access. It is a subscription tasking product for customers that need tight timelines on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tasking. Announced Oct. 30, Iceye described it as a change from the “first-in-first-out” typical tasking model, saying that it…
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Rocket Report: SpaceX surpasses shuttle launch total; Skyroot has big ambitions
Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time, humans have lived in space continuously, even through spacecraft accidents and wars on Earth. This is a remarkable milestone that all of humanity…
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Rocket Report: SpaceX surpasses shuttle launch total; Skyroot has big ambitions
Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time, humans have lived in space continuously, even through spacecraft accidents and wars on Earth. This is a remarkable milestone that all of humanity…