NASA’s CloudSat mission was decommissioned in March and moved into position for eventual deorbiting, marking the end of nearly 18 years of operation. CloudSat was launched in 2006 and was originally meant
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Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, has called on service leaders to implement a new model to build up readiness and
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The U.S. Space Force’s recently released Commercial Space Strategy is designed to push leaders to consider novel approaches to industry partnerships and technology, according to Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, deputy chief of space
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The Missile Warning Mission Area Team within the Space Operations Command’s Space Operations Center has taken over control of the Space-Based Infrared System Baseline Release, or SBR 23-1, from Space Systems Command.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has released a notice stating that a reentry vehicle may be launched as a payload and return to Earth as a reentry spacecraft provided that the operator has
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NASA has confirmed the mission of the Dragonfly rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan, allowing the mission to advance to the completion of the final design phase. NASA said Tuesday the mission was
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The U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm SpaceWERX has collaborated with the Aerospace Corporation, which operates a space-focused federally funded research and development center, to create a new initiative aimed at providing start-up
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NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate is soliciting feedback from the U.S. aerospace community on nearly 190 space technology shortfalls or needs for future space exploration and science missions as it works to
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Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said OSC has selected Colorado and Maryland to host the operations centers for its Traffic Coordination
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The U.S. Space Force has launched its Weather System Follow-on Microwave, or WSF-M, satellite to low Earth orbit onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to provide warfighters worldwide with actionable weather intelligence.
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