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Following the announcement of the upcoming launch of LEO-PNT’s first satellites, ESA has now unveiled the name of the mission. Celeste, as it has been officially designated, will test the potential of a new, low Earth orbit layer of satellites...

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As NASA plans future human exploration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, new and unique challenges emerge — like communication delays and limited return-to-Earth options — so enhanced medical care capabilities are critical. Crews will need non-invasive imaging...

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2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Are Due Sept. 12 We are thrilled to announce that nominations for the 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards are now open. Established in 2017 as the […] The post Honoring the Best in Space: 2025...

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NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency. The post NASA names exploration official as associate administrator appeared first on SpaceNews.

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The Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program marks the military’s first major attempt to deploy constellations of small satellites in the geostationary belt The post Space Force to use small satellites for geostationary communications appeared first on SpaceNews.

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The second of the Meteosat Third Generation Imagers, MTG-I2, has passed some important milestones in the cleanroom facilities at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, southern France.

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Portland, Oregon-based AscendArc has sold its first small geostationary communications satellite to KT Sat, South Korea’s flagship operator. The post AscendArc lands South Korea’s KT Sat as anchor small GEO customer appeared first on SpaceNews.

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A former NASA administrator told senators he believed it was “highly unlikely” the agency would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there. The post Senate hearing raises doubts about NASA’s ability to get astronauts to the...

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See the moon phase expected for September 3, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

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The satellite operator is positioning its Lightspeed LEO constellation as a data-transport solution for the Pentagon’s missile defense shield The post Telesat to offer blocks of satellite bandwidth to DoD for Golden Dome appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July 21, 2022, shows Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea north of Greenland.

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The next era of lunar exploration demands a new kind of wheel – one that can sprint across razor-sharp regolith, shrug off extremely cold nights, and keep a rover rolling day after lunar day. The Rock and Roll with...

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Acting NASA Administrator Sean P. Duffy Wednesday named Amit Kshatriya as the new associate administrator of NASA, the agency’s top civil service role. A 20-year NASA veteran, Kshatriya was most recently the deputy in charge of the Moon to...

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Last February, I wrote that the merger of the satellite and terrestrial cellular industry was not yet a marriage made in heaven. However, at the Mobile World Congress , held last March in Barcelona, I noticed that Non-Terrestrial Network...

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A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the moon but instead in Colorado, at a site selected...

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Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet interacts with the solar wind and moons swept by Jupiter’s magnetic field. Unlike Earth’s...

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_________________________________________________________________________________________ In the following interview, questions from the interviewer, Fred Van Wert, are in bold, and Caleb Scharf’s responses are in regular text. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Let’s begin with your early years. Where you were born, something about your family, what...

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General Atomics and Kepler Communications demonstrate interoperability for Space Force’s future military constellation The post Aircraft links with satellite using laser terminals in interoperability test appeared first on SpaceNews.

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NASA’s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate’s (ESDMD’s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development areas for human landing systems (HLS). Landers are used to safely ferry...

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