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SpaceX launches NASA, NOAA missions exploring the impacts of the Sun
The Falcon 9 carrying NASA’s IMAP mission transits the disk of the Sun seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Update: Launch occurred at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC). With successful payload deployments complete about 1.5 hours after liftoff. A trio of Sun-studying, marquee missions for both NASA and the…
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NASA targeting early February for Artemis II mission to the Moon
NASA is pressing ahead with preparations for the first launch of humans beyond low-Earth orbit in more than five decades, and officials said Tuesday that the Artemis II mission could take flight early next year. Although work remains to be done, the space agency is now pushing toward a launch window that opens on February…
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Eutelsat, Skynopy to Test Use of OneWeb Ground Stations for Earth Observation Data
European satellite operator Eutelsat said it will work with French startup Skynopy to explore selling unused capacity from its OneWeb ground stations to Earth observation operators. The initiative will start with tests on Ka-band antennas across OneWeb’s 42 gateway sites worldwide. “Any LEO ground station network has, by nature, idle time on its ground stations,”…
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Voyager Selects Vivace as Manufacturing Partner for Starlab Space Station
Voyager Technologies has selected Vivace Corporation to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station. Vivace is an aerospace manufacturer that produces hardware for a wide range of space customers including NASA, United Launch Alliance, Rocket Lab, and Northrop Grumman. It is based in NASA’s Michoud assembly facility near New Orleans, Louisiana. Vivace…
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Zeno Power to Acquire Nuclear Waste for Long-Duration Space Missions
Zeno Power has signed an agreement with French nuclear fuel cycle manager Orano to acquire Americium-241, an isotope the U.S. startup plans to repurpose for powering long-duration and deep-space missions. The company said it will make a “multi-million-dollar” annual payment to Orano for the supply, which will be sourced from the firm’s recycling site in…
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Space42 Teams up with Microsoft for Sovereign Cloud Initiative
Space42 will help create what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud in a new initiative working with Microsoft. This mobility cloud will be enabled by Core42’s Sovereign Public Cloud which leverages Microsoft Azure. The initiative aims to combine Space42’s mobility expertise with Microsoft’s cloud and logistics application suite. It aims to accelerate the…
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SpaceX Launches 3 Science Satellites for NASA and NOAA
SpaceX launched three science and weather satellites for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday. The launch for NASA heliophysics mission IMAP, or the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, also carried NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft. SpaceX launched the three satellites on a Falcon 9…
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Firefly Secures $10 Million From NASA for Additional Lunar Mission Data
Firefly Aerospace said it received an additional $10 million from NASA after delivering extra scientific data and imagery collected during its Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon earlier this year. The mission, which spanned 45 days en route to the lunar surface and two weeks of operations on it, yielded nearly 120 gigabytes of…
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Industry Groups Press FCC to Ease Spectrum Limits on LEO Satellites
Eleven industry organizations are urging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revise restrictions on signal strength for low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, saying rules imposed more than 20 years ago are outdated and holding back growth in the sector. In a letter sent Monday to FCC Chair Brendan Carr, the groups said that lifting equivalent…
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U.S. Launches Three Spacecraft Aboard Falcon 9 to Boost Space Weather Monitoring
The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to improve monitoring of solar activity and its effects on technology, astronauts, and infrastructure on Earth. The launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center sent the probes on a journey toward the Lagrange 1 point, around 1.5 million kilometers from the sun,…