Commercial Spaceports Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Commit to Expand International Collaboration

By Kris Christiaens, Published by Future Spaceflight, 21 October 2024 MILAN, Italy – October 13, 2024, eight commercial spaceports located across five continents signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU will establish a forum to explore potential strategic collaboration in a range of areas of common interest and introduce

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Space Force Prepares to Spend Billions More on Its Multibillion-Dollar Missile Defense System

Tranche 1 Transport Layer Cellular Network will begin launching in 2024/5. (Northrop Grumman) By Rich Smith, Published by The Motley Fool, 20 October 2024 Key Points Space Force initiated a new missile defense satellite project in 2021 called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture program. More than half a dozen companies

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Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

An artist's concept of a Boeing-built Intelsat EpicNG satellite. Credit: Boeing By Jason Rainbow, Publishd by Space News, 19 October 2024 TAMPA, Fla. — The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific.

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Space Force’s Victus Haze Mission Takes Off with True Anomaly and Firefly Partnership

Vuctus Haze Mission: Orbital Today By Ivan Yatskov, Published by Orbital Today, 18 October 2024 Space defence technology company True Anomaly announced on Thursday, 17 October, that it had selected Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket to launch its Jackal autonomous orbiter for the US Space Force’s Rapid Response Demonstration Mission, Victus

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