A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching May 8, 2021, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia may provide a brief light […]
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AIAA Announces 2021 Regional Student Conference Winners
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce the winners of six of the 2021 Regional Student Conferences. “In this untraditional year, the AIAA Regional Student […]
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Op-ed | Blank checks c/o the stars: Market analysis given short shrift as companies cash in on SPAC spree
This time, there’s no moon-or-bust crash program driving the influx of capital. Instead, we are seeing a rush to write blank checks without detailed consideration for what commercial enterprises worldwide value most: the market.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
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CAES and Swissto12 partnership brings 3D-printed RF solutions to the U.S.
CAES, the former electronics unit of British defense and aerospace contractor Cobham, has forged an alliance to bring Swiss 3D-printed satellite RF technology to the U.S. market.
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Yuri’s Night to Host a Global Livestream and Virtual Party to Celebrate 60 Years of Human Spaceflight April 10, 2021
On April 10 at 3pm Pacific time, 60 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth from space, Yuri’s Night is again bringing together an all-star […]
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Congress raises concerns about FAA’s handling of Starship launch license violation
As SpaceX gears up for another test flight of a Starship prototype, the Federal Aviation Administration is facing new scrutiny from Congress for how it handled SpaceX’s violation of its launch license on an earlier test flight.
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Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis For 100-Plus Years
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 […]
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Rocket Lab Inks Deal to Launch Five Missions for BlackSky Constellation
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch and space systems, has today announced it will launch multiple missions to low Earth orbit for BlackSky, a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence […]
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Can you still spell space without SPAC?
The SPAC boom has reshaped the space startup sector. Until recently, there was plenty of capital flowing into startups but few exits. SPACs offer, in some sense, the best of both options: an influx of capital associated with going public, but without the overhead of a traditional IPO.
