Tag: BreakingSpace
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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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President Trump names Sean Duffy as acting NASA administrator
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening the appointment of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as NASA’s interim administrator, replacing Janet Petro, who had been serving as Acting Administrator since Jan. 20. Duffy’s appointment comes more than a month after President Trump rescinded his earlier nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman. Isaacman, an entrepreneur, pilot,…