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Scotland Breaks Ground on Third Rocket Launch Site

Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise has announced that local contractor Macaulay Askernish has been selected to construct the enabling infrastructure for Spaceport 1 in North Uist. This will be the third rocket launch site in Scotland to break ground, after Sutherland Spaceport in Melness and SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst, Shetland. Approval for the construction of […] The post Scotland Breaks Ground on Third Rocket Launch Site appeared first on European Spaceflight..

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NASA Provides More Details to Congress about VIPER Decision

NASA has provided more details of its decision to cancel the VIPER robotic lunar rover mission in response to a letter from a key House committee.  It doesn’t specifically answer […].

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 5th batch of Starshield satellites for the NRO on Falcon 9 rocket from California

The mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base will be the seventh flight for the NRO in 2024. Liftoff from pad 4 East is set for no earlier than 12:10 a.m. PST (3:10 a.m. EST, 0810 UTC). .

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starlink mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The mission is set to be the first of a pair of Falcon 9 launches spanning just a few hours. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for no earlier than 12:00 a.m. EST (0500 UTC) on Nov. 30. .

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Space Force awards Raytheon $196.7 million for additional work on GPS ground control system

This latest award brings Raytheon's total OCX contract value to nearly $4.5 billion since the program's inception in 2010 The post Space Force awards Raytheon $196.7 million for additional work on GPS ground control system appeared first on SpaceNews..

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ESA, OpenCosmos sign contract for NanoMagSat mission

European smallsat developer Open Cosmos has signed a contract with ESA for a trio of cubesats to study the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere. The post ESA, OpenCosmos sign contract for NanoMagSat mission appeared first on SpaceNews..

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BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby

BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby.

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Watch live: Vega-C to launch Sentinel-1C

The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 December from 22:00 CET to watch the satellite soar into space on a Vega-C rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-1C is scheduled to liftoff at 22:20 CET..

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Week in images: 25-29 November 2024

Week in images: 25-29 November 2024.

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December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets

by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets! Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops. Jupiter even possesses moons the size of planets: Ganymede, its largest, is […].

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