Virgin Galactic restructures leadership as it prepares to resume flights
Thursday, 12 January 2023 23:07
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As Virgin Galactic moves closer to resuming flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle, the company is reorganizing its leadership and parting ways with a senior executive.
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U.S. Space Force chief: Russia’s missteps in Ukraine serve as a cautionary tale
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Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said he wants to make sure the Space Force is not caught unprepared for the next conflict
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ESPA satellites maturing as the preferred ride for small national security payloads
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The newest version of the ESPA ring deploys experiments but also more advanced operational smallsats
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NSF and SpaceX reach agreement to reduce Starlink effects on astronomy
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NSF has reached an agreement with SpaceX to mitigate the effects of the company’s second-generation Starlink satellites on astronomy, even as another organization goes to court to block the constellation’s deployment.
U.S. Space Force considers a second NOAA weather satellite
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The U.S. Space Force is holding discussions with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about replacing a geostationary weather satellite over the Indian Ocean.
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SpiderOak raises $16.4 million in Series C funding round
Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:45 Write a comment
Cybersecurity specialist SpiderOak raised $16.4 million in a Series C investment round led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
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Virgin Orbit: Premature shutdown behind rocket launch fail
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XMM-Newton spies black holes eating the same stars again and again
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Two teams of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black holes that partially destroy stars again and again. This discovery is unexpected, since outbursts of black holes usually appear only once when a black hole consumes a star.
Virgin Orbit blames launch failure on upper stage anomaly
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Virgin Orbit says its first LauncherOne mission from the United Kingdom failed to reach orbit Jan. 9 when an anomaly caused a premature shutdown of the rocket’s upper stage.
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Snowless ski slopes from space
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Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter heatwave. The warm temperatures and lack of snowfall in the Alps has left several ski resorts with little or no snow. The difference in snow cover is visible in these Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured in January 2022 ESA Preview 2023
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At the start of 2023 the European Space Agency ESA is happily looking forward to another year filled with a host of thrilling new missions, cutting edge science and the continued effort to guarantee independent access to space for Europe. We will see the first images of the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite, the launch of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, and of Euclid and another Sentinel-1 satellite launch. It will also be the year of Ariane 6 which will make its inaugural flight and the first Dane in space, Andreas Mogensen will return to the ISS
ESA to touch Moon from wheels of UAE Rashid rover
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The very first European technology to make contact with the surface of the Moon will be on the wheels of the Rashid rover, part of the Emirates Lunar Mission currently on the way to our natural satellite. The outer rims of this rover’s four wheels incorporate small sample panels to test how differing materials cope with the abrasive lunar surface, including a quartet of samples contributed by ESA.
Russia to send rescue mission to space station
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55 Write a comment
Russia said Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) next month to bring home three astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a tiny meteoroid.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, made the announcement after examining the flight worthiness of the Soyuz MS-22 crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a radiator coo Private U.S. space company ABL fails to launch from Alaska
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An effort to put a satellite launcher into low-Earth orbit from Alaska's Kodiak Island failed after the rocket crashed back to the launchpad, destroying the facility, private U.S. company ABL Space Systems said.
The ABL RS1 lifted off from its Kodiak Island launchpad midafternoon Alaska time on Tuesday. The company said through its official Twitter account that it experienced an "anomal Rocket Lab sets new date for first Electron launch from U.S. soil
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission from U.S. soil is scheduled to open on January 23, 2023 with back-up dates extending through early February. The daily launch opportunity runs from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (23:00 - 1:00 UTC).
The "Virginia Is For Launch Lovers" mission will lift-off from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space's Mid-