Space Transportation, a Chinese aerospace firm, is building a reusable winged rocket and space plane for rapid point-to-point transportation and space tourism, Space.com reported. The company, also known as Beijing Lingkong Tianxing
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NASA has finished adjusting the course of its James Webb Space Telescope toward a final orbit around the L2 Lagrange point. Webb performed a mid-course burn where the spacecraft’s onboard thrusters fired
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A report from the Department of Commerce’s inspector general recommends that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration perform an analysis of alternatives or related assessments to determine whether to continue the Geostationary
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Andrew Cox, director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Warfighting Analysis Center, said he wants his organization to further collaborate with industry for the development of a space data transport network, Breaking
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Col. Eric Felt, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, has been appointed deputy executive director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Architecture, Science and Technology Directorate. Felt will
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The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command will host an industry day on Feb. 16 to bring together industry partners for a discussion on future developments in tactical satellite and terrestrial transmission systems.
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Axiom Space has issued a contract to technology services firm Jacobs to build the Assembly, Integration and Testing facility at Houston Spaceport. The architecture and engineering phase one design contract approves a planned
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NASA is deploying a SpaceX Dragon resupply craft from the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 21, bringing with it scientific experiments fostered in the station’s microgravity environment. The spacecraft will touch down off
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NASA has announced new mission plans based on input from the Astro2020 astrophysics decadal survey, which was published in November, Space News reported Wednesday. The space agency said Tuesday at an online
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Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said SDA will deploy satellites in low-Earth orbit as part of the tracking layer to help detect hypersonic
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