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President Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator, billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman, will appear before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today for a high-profile confirmation hearing.
The GPS III SV-08 satellite, the eighth spacecraft in the modernized GPS III constellation, is now set to fly no earlier than late May aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The agreement with Umbra could be worth up to $60 million, pending final contract arrangements and matching co-investment from private sources.
Space infrastructure leader Redwire and lunar exploration company ispace U.S. have announced a strategic collaboration to jointly pursue future lunar missions, with an eye toward both government and commercial opportunities.
Axiom Space is taking a major step toward its vision of developing a scalable, space-based cloud computing ecosystem by launching two of its Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes on upcoming Kepler Communications satellites.
Astroscale US has announced it will refuel two U.S. Space Force spacecraft in geostationary orbit (GEO) as part of a groundbreaking mission slated for launch in 2026
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW), a key player in commercial lunar exploration, has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch its fourth lunar lander mission, known as IM-4.
In a move to bolster national security and strengthen the domestic space launch industrial base, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a combined $13.7 billion in launch service contracts to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and Blue Origin.
NASA is looking ahead to the next wave of private astronaut missions to the International Space Station (ISS)
The hearing will take place on Tuesday, April 9, at 10 a.m. Eastern, according to an announcement released late April 2.
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