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Rocket Report: Starship experiences a RUD; Blue Origin nails its debut launch
Welcome to Edition 7.27 of the Rocket Report! Thursday was an eventful day in super heavy lift launch, with Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket having a highly successful debut launch before dawn in Florida, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Then, on Thursday afternoon, an upgraded Starship took flight from South Texas. The first stage…
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Seattle-area firm launches program to back new space ventures with million-dollar bets
Fuse has come up with a mission patch for its program to back early-stage space ventures. (Fuse Graphic) Seattle-area venture capital firm Fuse wants to light a spark for entrepreneurs focusing on the final frontier, and it’s willing to invest a million dollars to turn a good idea into a great startup. The Fuse Space…
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Here’s what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year
SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday afternoon. It’s the first of what might be a dozen or more demonstration flights this year as SpaceX tries new things with the most powerful rocket ever built. There are many things on SpaceX’s Starship to-do…
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Trump Nominates Olivia Trusty as FCC Commissioner
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Olivia Trusty as a Republican commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, Trump announced Jan. 16. Trusty is currently the policy director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. She previously served as a legislative assistant for Senator Roger Wicker and Congressman Bob Latta. She has also worked on…
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NGA Director Frank Whitworth to Keynote GovMilSpace at SATELLITE
Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will keynote the opening of the GovMilSpace program at SATELLITE 2025. Whitworth has served as director of the NGA since June of 2022. He is responsible for leading and directing NGA under the authorities of the Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence. …
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Xplore Announces Successful Launch, Communications and Control of Hyperspectral Satellite
Xplore, a dual-use space company providing satellite data announced the successful launch, communications and control of XCUBE-1, its first hyperspectral satellite, which launched as part of the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission mission with SpaceX via launch integrator Maverick Space Systems. XCUBE-1 was deployed to a mid-inclination orbit following its launch from Vandenburg Space Force Base in…
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Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space
SpaceX launched an upgraded version of its massive Starship rocket from South Texas on Thursday, but the flight ended less than nine minutes later after engineers lost contact with the spacecraft. For a few moments, SpaceX officials discussing the launch on the company’s live webcast were unsure of the outcome of the test flight. However,…
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few months. The mission began with a middle-of-the-night launch from Kennedy at 1:11 am EST (06:11 UTC) Wednesday. It took about an hour…
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General John Raymond Joins Planet’s Board of Directors
Planet Labs has named retired General John “Jay” Raymond to its board of directors, the company announced Jan. 16. Gen. Raymond served as the first Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As the first Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Raymond was responsible…
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Sky Perfect JSAT to Deploy New Disaster Response Solution in Japanese Arena
SKY Perfect JSAT will bring new disaster response capabilities to the Kobe region of Japan. Sky Perfect JSAT will deploy a disaster-response satellite communications system for Glion Arena Kobe, a multi-purpose arena set to open in Kobe in around three month’s time, the company announced on Jan. 17. This system, powered by the satellite IP…