Falcon Heavy launches final ViaSat-3 terabit-class satellite

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.
Space Force awards BAE Systems $11.8 million to demo satellite communications for Golden Dome

BAE to demonstrate inter-satellite Link-182 radios for Golden Dome missile defense architecture
Canadian Space Agency cancels Spire satellite contract

The Canadian Space Agency has canceled a contract it awarded last year to Spire Global to construct a fleet of wildfire-monitoring smallsats.
ISS module cracking still unresolved despite stopping air leaks

While leaks in a Russian section of the International Space Station have stopped, engineers still don’t understand how the cracks formed.
May 13: Software Integration and Strategic Missile Defense

Space Force selects firms to build counter-surveillance payloads for satellites

The great parachute bake-out
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The great parachute bake-out 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
Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood
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Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood 
