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The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim at the massive orbiting research complex for a planned stay of six to eight months. Spacecraft commander Zena Cardman leads the mission, designated Crew-11, that lifted off from Florida’s Space…

After years of delivering iconic views of Falcon boosters performing Return to Launch Site (RTLS) landings, SpaceX is retiring Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1). The plot of land for LZ-1 was leased to SpaceX for five years by the U.S. Air Force’s 45th Space Wing in February 2015. The concrete pad was constructed later that year…

Although NASA and its counterpart in Russia, Roscosmos, continue to work together on a daily basis, the leaders of the two organizations have not held face-to-face meetings since the middle of the first Trump administration, back in October 2018. A lot has changed in the nearly eight years since then, including the Russian invasion of…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors that Amazon is planning to bring Project Kuiper into commercial beta service later this year or early next year, highlighting interest from enterprise and government customers.  “We’re working very hard to get the satellites into space,” Jassy said Thursday. “We have some delays with some of the rocket providers,…

This is Part 2 of our interview with Col. Raj Agrawal, the former commander of the Space Force’s Space Mission Delta 2. If it seems like there’s a satellite launch almost every day, the numbers will back you up. The US Space Force’s Mission Delta 2 is a unit that reports to Space Operations Command,…