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6 teams of Seattle-area students competing in national finals of Team America Rocketry Challenge
Read more →: 6 teams of Seattle-area students competing in national finals of Team America Rocketry ChallengeOdle Middle School students from Bellevue , Wash., prepping a rocket for launch. (Twitter Photo via @OdleRocketry) Six…
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NASA’s lunar orbiter spots the smoking hole left behind by Israel’s moon lander
Read more →: NASA’s lunar orbiter spots the smoking hole left behind by Israel’s moon landerA processed image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, taken on April 22, highlights the dark smudge and bright…
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SpaceX Launch Delayed Due to High Winds
Read more →: SpaceX Launch Delayed Due to High Winds1045pm ET Update: About 15 minutes before the Falcon 9 rocket was due to liftoff on Wednesday evening…
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Picturing black holes; Cloud City Tech Meetup; and classic arcade games
Read more →: GeekWire Calendar Picks: Picturing black holes; Cloud City Tech Meetup; and classic arcade games–One of the biggest scientific feats was accomplished this year when a team of astronomers captured an image…
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NASA taps Blue Origin and 10 other companies to work on moon lander studies and prototypes
Read more →: NASA taps Blue Origin and 10 other companies to work on moon lander studies and prototypesAn artist’s conception shows a landing system in lunar orbit. (NASA Illustration) It’s almost as if Amazon billionaire…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk says ‘goodness’ will come from twice-delayed Starlink launch
Read more →: SpaceX’s Elon Musk says ‘goodness’ will come from twice-delayed Starlink launchSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sits on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, in…
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On Orbit Episode 3: Space’s Private Industry Ambassador
Read more →: On Orbit Episode 3: Space’s Private Industry AmbassadorOn Orbit is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Via Satellite Executive Editor and SATELLITE Chair Jeffrey Hill, focusing…
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Eutelsat, Maxar Selected for NASA Study
Read more →: Eutelsat, Maxar Selected for NASA StudyMaxar Technologies and Eutelsat were selected to participate in NASA’s Space Relay Partnership and Services Study. This studies…
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NOAA Awards Harris Ground Segment Contract Extension
Read more →: NOAA Awards Harris Ground Segment Contract ExtensionThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris a three-year, $284 million sole-source extension on the ground…
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China’s satellite navigation industry sees rapid development
Read more →: China’s satellite navigation industry sees rapid developmentChina’s satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93…
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Comtech Receives $5.2 Million of Funding for US Army BFT Program
Read more →: Comtech Receives $5.2 Million of Funding for US Army BFT ProgramComtech Telecommunications revealed that during its third quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was…
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NASA looking at SLS certification schedule changes in ‘Drive to EM-1’
Read more →: NASA looking at SLS certification schedule changes in ‘Drive to EM-1’NASA is looking at deferring some programmatic certification activities until after the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) flight in addition…