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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite toward geostationary orbit April 29, putting Viasat on course to finish a constellation more than a decade in the making.

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BAE to demonstrate inter-satellite Link-182 radios for Golden Dome missile defense architecture

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WildFireSat

The Canadian Space Agency has canceled a contract it awarded last year to Spire Global to construct a fleet of wildfire-monitoring smallsats.

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Photo of the ISS.

While leaks in a Russian section of the International Space Station have stopped, engineers still don’t understand how the cracks formed.

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Thursday, 30 April 2026 10:30

The great parachute bake-out

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Thursday, 30 April 2026 08:29

Baking a parachute for Mars

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Watch ESA’s Mars chief engineer Albert Haldemann explain the sterilisation process of one of the parachutes of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission and why it matters.  

Carefully wrapped inside a donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute, about to be baked inside a specialised dry-heat steriliser oven. The parachute needs to be at least 10 000 times cleaner than your smartphone. 

To get rid of any microbes it might have picked up during its time on Earth, the parachute was heated up in a specialised oven at the European Space Agency’s Life Support and Physical Sciences Laboratory at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands. All air inside the cleanroom continuously passes through a two-stage

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Thursday, 30 April 2026 07:00

Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood

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