Sierra Space deliberately blew up its first full-scale space station module prototype recently to get ready for future space missions that could take place as soon as 2030, the company announced on Monday (Jan. WATCH BALLOON-LIKE SPACE STATION MODULE EXPLODE (ON PURPOSE) DURING 1ST FULL-SCALE BURST TEST - That's one big bang for space station safety. The four Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) private astronauts met the seven Expedition 70 crew members on Saturday beginning two weeks of dual operations.

MoreĮXPEDITION 70 AND AX-3 CREWS WORKING TOGETHER ON STATION - Eleven astronauts and cosmonauts from around the world are living and working together aboard the International Space Station today. The GOES-U, which will provide weather monitoring, including pinpointing and tracking where wildfires start, was built on Lockheed Martin's Littleton. MoreĬOLORADO-BUILT WEATHER SATELLITE MAKES ITS WAY TO KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - A satellite that will soon help deliver weather forecasts to your phone started its voyage from Aurora to Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Monday. In 2019, then-president Trump tweeted a detailed image of a heavily damaged Iranian launch pad captured by a.

MoreĪLBEDO CLOSES $35M AT BOOSTED VALUATION TO BUILD SATELLITES THAT ORBIT VERY, VERY CLOSE TO EARTH - Satellite startup Albedo aims to provide commercial orbital imagery so detailed that the military kept its own version under wraps - until it was leaked a few years ago by Donald Trump. The announcement - not yet verified independently - comes days after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) used ballistic miss. IRAN SATELLITE LAUNCH RAISES CONCERN OVER MISSILE PROGRAM - Official Iranian news agencies published images of a rocket blasting off, claiming that it carried and placed a homemade satellite to an orbit 750 kilometers above earth. 17, arriving at the Tiangong space station just over.

The freighter, called Tianzhou 7, launched on a Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Jan. MoreĬHINESE ASTRONAUTS CHECK OUT NEWLY DELIVERED SPACE STATION SUPPLIES - Astronauts aboard China's space station have entered a newly arrived cargo spacecraft to begin sorting and checking out the goods. As an example, when Russia was initially staging to invade Ukraine, the United States government purchased mo. EYES IN THE SKY: THE INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT (VLEO) FOR NATIONAL SECURITY - The war in Ukraine spotlighted the power of satellite imagery in new ways, and has already changed the way the military uses orbital reconnaissance tactically and to shift public perception.

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