Space
Colonizing the moon and Mars; space-based mining missions; using rockets to travel between continents in under an hour—this page covers the trends and news that will guide the future of space.
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https://www.iot-now.com/2024/09/23/146665-rocket-labs-53rd-mission-deploys-iot-satellites-for-kineis/
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Rocket Lab USA has launched its 53rd Electron mission and deployed five satellites to Low Earth Orbit for French Internet of Things (IoT) company Kinéis.The 'Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star' lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 11:01 a.m. on 21 September NZST...
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https://247wallst.com/military/2024/09/21/space-force-vs-air-force-comparison/
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Founded in December 2019, the United States Space Force (USSF) is the newest branch of the United States military. The USSF is an offshoot of the United States Air Force (USAF); both branches are part of the United States Department of the Air Force. While they overlap in multiple areas, they...
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/09/20/new-docs-shed-light-on-air-forces-goal-to-reduce-white-male-population-joining-officer-ranks/
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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping "goal" of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q....
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q....
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https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2024/09/space-future-commands-will-be-operational-within-a-year/
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Introduced earlier this year as part of a major structural overhaul, the Space Futures Command, which will play a crucial role in shaping the future of military space operations, is still nearly a year away. The new command will bring together three centers — the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, the Concepts and Technologies Center and a new Wargaming Center — to forecast the future operating environment, define the service's operational concepts and ultimately "document the objective force" needed for future success.
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https://www.marssociety.org/news/2024/09/19/blog-why-earth-mars-arent-opposites-how-space-exploration-sustainability-work-together/
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By Shriya Sawant, Guest Writer, Red Planet Bound, 09.19.24
A heated point of contention between space advocates and environmental advocates can be summarized by one succinct phrase: whether to "Save Earth or Settle Mars". You might also recognize the phrase "Save Earth and Then Go to Mars," or...
A heated point of contention between space advocates and environmental advocates can be summarized by one succinct phrase: whether to "Save Earth or Settle Mars". You might also recognize the phrase "Save Earth and Then Go to Mars," or...
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https://www.rediff.com/business/report/nibe-shoots-for-the-stars-with-satellite-constellation/20240919.htm
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Nibe Space (NSPL), a subsidiary of Nibe, announced its vision to establish India's first multi-sensor, all-weather, high-revisit Earth observation satellite constellation. Image used for representation purpose only. Aiming to strengthen India's self-reliance in the strategically crucial defence-space sector, NSPL signed memoranda of agreement with Indian and global partners, including Larsen & Toubro, Centum, AgniKul, Skyroot Aerospace, SpaceFields, SISIR Radar, CYRAN AI Solutions, and Thales Alenia Space as a technology partner.
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https://design-milk.com/a-southern-california-factory-becomes-an-office-for-music-industry-creatives/
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Multidisciplinary practice 22RE transformed a vaulted 1950s factory into a contemporary workspace for a music branding agency. Located in Culver City's Hayden Tract, a former industrial zone, Ceremony of Roses has tech startups, media firms, and galleries as neighbors. The designers, who...
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https://www.news24.com/fin24/international/historic-private-astronaut-mission-splashes-down-off-florida-20240915
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For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history when its crew conducted the first spacewalk by non-government astronauts, splashed down off the coast of Florida early Sunday. The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the capsule and crew.
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https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-crew-9-meet-astronauts-launching-to-space-station
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Nick Hague is a U.Space Force (USSF) colonel and Crew-9 commander. The upcoming mission will mark a milestone for the Space Force, as Hague will be the first active USSF Guardian to launch into space. This will be Hague's third launch, but only his second time to the ISS. His first launch, aboard the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft in 2018, ended prematurely due to a rocket booster failure, sending Hague and his cosmonaut crewmate Alexey Ovchinin into an abort and ballistic reentry.
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https://sofrep.com/news/us-air-force-hits-recruiting-goals-2024/
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After a tough year in 2023, when the US Air Force (USAF) fell 10 percent short of its recruiting goals, the service has made a significant comeback.
Thanks to a mix of new policies, updated standards, and a renewed focus on attracting talent, the service branch hit its 2024 recruiting targets and...
Thanks to a mix of new policies, updated standards, and a renewed focus on attracting talent, the service branch hit its 2024 recruiting targets and...
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https://federalnewsnetwork.com/air-force/2024/09/air-force-secretary-confident-theres-enough-support-for-services-ongoing-overhaul-amid-election-uncertainty/
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In 2022, he introduced a set of. imperatives to support the Air Force's priorities, and earlier this year, he announced a major structural overhaul that will streamline the service's bureaucracy and boost overall readiness. As a political appointee, however, Kendall's future service depends on who occupies the White House next year.
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https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2024/09/house-of-representatives-announces-new-rules-for-ai/
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The House of Representatives is setting new rules for artificial intelligence tools. A new policy from the chief administrative officer and the House Administration Committee shows how the House will approve artificial intelligence tools and define AI use cases. The policy is meant to help lawmakers use AI tools for House-approved purposes.
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https://www.space.com/europe-hera-probe-inspect-dart-asteroid-october-launch
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Europe's highly anticipated Hera mission to catalog the wreckage of the asteroid Dimorphos has arrived at its Florida launch site for final checks ahead of its planned liftoff early next month. The main spacecraft and its two partner , named Milani and Juventas, are set to launch atop Falcon 9 rocket on Oct.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/china-to-ramp-up-policy-steps-to-revive-economy/articleshow/113500552.cms
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Economictimes
BEIJING: Chinese policymakers will likely step up measures to at least help the economy meet an increasingly challenging growth target for 2024, analysts and policy advisers say, with a sharper focus on boosting demand to fight persistent deflationary pressures.Official data showed the world's...
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335092-500-current-laws-cannot-protect-civilians-in-space-if-something-goes-wrong/
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If you watched the live video of billionaire Jason Isaacman popping his head out of a SpaceX spacecraft (see "Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration"), your first thought probably wasn't "who gets sued if something goes wrong?" - but as private spaceflight grows,...
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https://www.designboom.com/technology/space-perspective-uncrewed-test-flight-spaceship-neptune-excelsior-florida-09-19-2024/
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Uncrewed successful test flight of spaceship neptune excelsior Space Perspective has successfully completed the uncrewed and second development test flight of its Spaceship Neptune Excelsior. The flight was launched from Marine Spaceport Voyager, the spaceship's launching vessel, off the coast of...
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/india-is-on-a-path-to-become-the-worlds-third-largest-space-power/
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Arstechnica
Enlarge / Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma and Virendra Sachdeva, two members of Narendra Modi's ruling BJP party, celebrate the landing of India's Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon on August 23, 2023.
All at once, India's government has approved plans to develop a new reusable rocket, the...
All at once, India's government has approved plans to develop a new reusable rocket, the...
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https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2024/09/senators-push-for-fix-to-potential-foreign-service-pay-cut/
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Senators are urging their colleagues to prevent a 22% pay cut for federal employees working overseas. Congress has until the end of the month to reauthorize Overseas Comparability Pay. Those funds ensure Foreign Service officers and other feds abroad get paid close to what they'd make in the U.Sens.
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https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/commercial-crew/what-you-need-to-know-about-nasas-spacex-crew-9-mission/
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NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are preparing to launch on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.
The flight is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The duo will lift...
The flight is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The duo will lift...
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-it-so-much-harder-for-nasa-to-send-people-to-the-moon-now-than-it-was-during-the-apollo-era/
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When the Apollo 17 astronauts returned from the moon in 1972, they couldn't have known that they would be the last humans to travel deep into outer space for more than 50 years. But no astronauts have ventured beyond Earth orbit since, even as Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald...
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/army-sends-130-troops-missile-systems-remote-alaskan-island-russia-threat
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The Pentagon has taken the rare step of deploying US Army ground forces to an Alaskan island on fears that Russian and Chinese warships are coming closer and closer to America's shores.Some 130 soldiers have been sent to an uninhabited, remote island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska...
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russo-chinese-arctic-war-games-spur-u-s-response-alaska-officials-warn-only-strength-can-deter-crisis
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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joins 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' to discuss how the Biden administration's energy policy has inhibited Alaska from producing oil and reducing prices at the pump. After the Army deployed 130 airborne soldiers to a far-flung Aleutian Islands base amid joint Russian-Chinese...