AWS ground station satellite antenna in one of the company’s data centers at Boardman, Oregon. Amazon Microsoft will offer a new service called Azure Orbital that connects satellites directly to its cloud computing network, the company announced at its Ignite conference on Tuesday. The service will be launched in “Private …
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NASA is considering paying companies to collect dirt or rocks on the moon over the next four years, as a first step towards the agency’s goal of accelerating lunar exploration. “The time has come to establish regulatory certainty for ractivating and trading space resources,” NASA Administrator Jim Brydenstein said in …
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SpaceX took one more step Thursday to develop its next-generation Starship rocket, conducting the second short-flight test of the prototype last month. The starship prototype serial number 6 or SN6 on the SpaceX facility in Boka Chika, Texas took off from the launchpad. It slowly climbed to about 500 feet …
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 crew members sat in the Crew Dragon spaceship during training. From left to right: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Oliver and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. SpaceX NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the company’s first full mission with astronauts no earlier than October 23, …
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Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket takes off on July 4, 2020. Rocket lab Small rocket builder Rocket Lab will return to the launch pad in August, as the company said it diagnosed the cause of its recent launch failure and received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to resume launches. “We …
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