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Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator: Does he have The Right Stuff?
Jared Isaacman with his family after the Polaris Dawn mission. Image: Polaris Program Heavy bias towards SpaceX is a concern Since flying on Inspiration4, Isaacman has embedded himself in the support of SpaceX and its mission for making humanity multi-planetary. In fact, the Polaris Program is basically a means to help support SpaceX in learning…
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Europe’s Meteosat 3rd-Gen Most Advanced Weather Satellite Became Fully Operational
EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites became fully operational. MTG-Imager 1 also receives a new name, Meteosat-12, to mark the occasion. The two main instruments on board Meteosat-12, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), play a crucial role in enabling meteorological services to help protect lives and livelihoods by providing high-resolution,…
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Trump nominates Jared Isaacman to become the next NASA administrator
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX, to become the next NASA administrator. “I am delighted to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),” Trump…
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Intuitive Machines Partners with Johns Hopkins APL for Lunar Communications and Navigation
Intuitive Machines, a leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, has announced it has entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to advance safe, secure, and reliable lunar communications and navigation infrastructure in cislunar space. Cislunar space encompasses the region of space that extends from Earth’s gravitational influence…
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SpaceX launches latest broadcast satellite for SiriusXM on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center
This rendering shows what the Maxar-built SXM-9 will look like once on orbit. Image: Maxar With a Thursday late morning liftoff, SpaceX sent the latest satellite in the radio broadcast fleet owned by SiriusXM on geostationary transfer orbit trajectory. The SXM-9 satellite lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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SpaceX Launches GEO Satellite for SiriusXM
SpaceX launched a new satellite for SiriusXM’s satellite radio business on Thursday morning. The Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite, SXM-9, will deliver SiriusXM’s audio entertainment and information to millions of consumers. SpaceX launched the mission on a Falcon 9 rocket, which took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:10 a.m. The satellite was…
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Sierra Space Signs Multiple Agreements to Advance Manufacturing in Microgravity
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth, announced two new agreements to further the advancement of manufacturing in the microgravity environments of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Under new Memoranda of Understanding (MOU), Sierra Space will collaborate with both California-based…