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Iridium to take over Aireon to expand aviation safety business

Iridium Communications is buying the rest of the Aireon aircraft-tracking venture its connectivity constellation hosts to push further into aviation…

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CEO Series: Chris Quilty looks at the future of the space industry

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Chris Quilty about the launch bottleneck, the new budget proposals…

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Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station!NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom…

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is About To Finish A Marathon

Perseverance has travelled almost 26 miles, or 42 km. That's just shy of a marathon, which is 26.2 miles or…

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A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part IV: Arecibo and the WOW! Signal

During the 1970s, pioneering experiments were conducted that are known today as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). At the same time,…

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SLS to launch without upper stage for Artemis 3

NASA plans to fly the Space Launch System on Artemis 3 without an upper stage as the agency begins to…

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Forget Searching for Individual Biosignatures. Instead, Find Their Patterns

The search for life elsewhere focuses on biosignatures. These are chemicals in atmospheres that can only be attributed to life.…

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Will Starship launch from foreign shores? SpaceX ‘constantly exploring’ options for megarocket liftoff sites

SpaceX just revealed that it's on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside…

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NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat…

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