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Arianespace Vega C Mission Launches Satellites for Airbus, CNES
Arianespace launched the second Vega C mission of 2025 on Friday evening, with Airbus Defence and Space‘s CO3D satellites and the CNES MicroCarb satellite. The VV27 mission launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on July 25 at 11:03 p.m. local time, and lasted 1 hour and 41 minutes. The Airbus “Constellation Optique 3D,” or…
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Crew-11 Arrives at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch
NASA’s Crew-11 mission is officially in the final stretch before liftoff, with all four astronauts arriving at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ahead of their scheduled launch on Thursday. Touching down at the iconic 15,000-foot-long Shuttle Landing Facility, the crew is now immersed in a rigorous pre-launch schedule as they prepare for their journey to…
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Space Traffic Report: Busy Week for Falcon 9: TRACERS, Starlink & O3b Satellites!
This week’s launches predominantly featured SpaceX’s Falcon 9, beginning with a Starlink mission from Vandenberg, followed by the O3b mPOWER satellites for SES from Florida, and concluding with NASA’s TRACERS and accompanying payloads from Vandenberg. The Soyuz 2.1b rounded out the week, completing the Ionosfera-M constellation. Falcon 9 Launch of Starlink Group 17-3 The…
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Starlink Outage Puts Attention on Resilient Communications
SpaceX’s Starlink constellation experienced a network outage on Thursday, drawing calls from the satellite industry about the importance of resilient networks and alternative paths of communication. Starlink service was restored the same day. The company said the outage lasted about 2.5 hours. Starlink Vice President of Engineering Michael Nicolls explained on X that the outage…
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Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
Not surprisingly, Congress is pushing back against the Trump administration’s proposal to cancel the Space Launch System, the behemoth rocket NASA has developed to propel astronauts back to the Moon. Spending bills making their way through both houses of Congress reject the White House’s plan to wind down the SLS rocket after two more launches,…
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Rocket Report: Channeling the future at Wallops; SpaceX recovers rocket wreckage
Welcome to Edition 8.04 of the Rocket Report! The Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield will be a lot of things. Along with new sensors, command and control systems, and satellites, Golden Dome will require a lot of rockets. The pieces of the Golden Dome architecture operating in orbit will ride to space on commercial…
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New Startup Cascade Space Targets Satellite Communication System Design
A new startup Cascade Space raised $5.9 million in funding to develop a platform for satellite communication system design. The company, formerly known as Heliosphere Network, is looking to solve what it sees as a bottleneck in communication system design, test, and operation, especially for lunar and deep space missions. Cascade Space recently released an…
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Viasat Joins DIU’s Hybrid Space Architecture Program for Defense Network Solutions
Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, announced it was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to support the prototyping and demonstration of technologies for the next phase of its Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) project. This groundbreaking initiative aims to integrate civil, commercial, and military space assets into a unified network environment and deliver…