Gearing up for the Moon with Pangaea
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Gearing up for the Moon China scraps expendable Long March 9 rocket plan in favor of reusable version
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China’s main launch vehicle designer has scrapped plans for an expendable Long March 9 rocket in favor of a design featuring a reusable first stage.
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What is ESA’s Moonlight initiative?
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Going to the Moon was the first step. Staying there is the next ambition.
ESA is a key partner in NASA’s Artemis programme, which aims to return people to the Moon by the end of the decade. Dozens of other international public and private missions are setting their sights on the lunar surface in the coming years.
But to achieve a permanent and sustainable presence on the Moon, reliable and autonomous lunar communications and navigation services are required.
This is why ESA is working with its industrial partners on the Moonlight initiative, to become the first off-planet commercial
Outlining the requirements for a rendezvous mission with an interstellar visitor
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Cygnus arrives at space station despite solar array problem
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A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Nov. 9 despite having only one of its two solar arrays deployed.
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Astra lays off 16% to focus on spacecraft thrusters and new rocket
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Astra Space is laying off one-sixth of its workforce, a move the company’s leadership says is needed to focus its resources on production of spacecraft electric thrusters and development of a new launch vehicle.
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SpaceWERX awards 124 orbital prime contracts
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The SpaceWERX Orbital Prime program awarded 124 Phase 1 contracts from June 15 to Sept. 22, 2022, each with a five-month term valued at $250,000. Orbital Prime, which is the first space effort under the SpaceWERX Prime line of business, intends to invigorate the In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing, or ISAM, market using Active Debris Remediation as a use case for the foundational tec UniSA launches Global Executive MBA in Defence and Space
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The University of South Australia is collaborating with American and British partners to launch a Global Executive MBA in Defence and Space, the first program of its kind in Australia.
Leveraging the growth of two key sectors and the recent AUKUS strategic alliance, the MBA will address critical skills gaps in defence and space and help build a pipeline of talent across Australia, the Unit Satellites help scientists track dramatic wetlands loss in Louisiana
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New research uses NASA satellite observations and advanced computing to chronicle wetlands lost (and found) around the globe.
From Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border, Louisiana has lost enough wetlands since the mid-1950s to cover the entire state of Rhode Island. Using a first-of-its-kind model, NASA-funded researchers quantified those wetlands losses at nearly 21 square miles (54 squ Copernicus LSTM Expansion mission helping climate change adaptation
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The Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) programme led by Airbus has successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The approval of this milestone with ESA confirms that the satellite design is compliant with all mission requirements ensuring that mission objectives and user needs will be met.
LSTM is part of the Copernicus programme established to fulfil the need among Eur Alpha Data powers NASA's climate change mineral dust detector on Space Station
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Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha Data.
Data gathered by the NASA instrument - called the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) - as the Space Station orbits E Wireless power from space
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Wireless power from space NASA Moon rocket launch delayed again, this time by storm
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NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of Florida, officials said.
A launch attempt, which had been scheduled for November 14, will now take place on November 16, Jim Free, a senior official at the US space agency, said on Twitter.
It is the third delay of the highly-anticipated launch in as m iSpace receives license to conduct business activity on the Moon from Japanese Government
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CAPTOPM First License Granted Under Japan's Space Resources Act
ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar exploration company with its headquarters in Japan and regional offices in the United States and Europe, announced that it has received a license from the Japanese government to conduct business activity on the moon as part of its first lunar mission.
The approval, the first granted under Satellogic completes investment in Officina Stellare
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Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has announced the completion of an ~5% investment in Officina Stellare ("OS"). This includes an option for Satellogic to expand its ownership to up to 12% in the next 36 months and the appointment of Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and Co-Founder of Satellogic, to the OS Board of Directors.
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