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NASA Lunar Probe Captures Detailed Photos of Apollo Landing Sites
WEBSep 12, 2011 · The $504 million car-sized spacecraft first captured close-up images of the Apollo landing sites in July 2009, which revealed new details about the sites and even spotted hardware that was left ...
SpaceX’s new price chart illustrates performance cost of
WEBMay 2, 2016 · Credit: SpaceX. PARIS — Launch-service provider SpaceX’s new price chart shows the performance cost incurred when making the Falcon 9 Full Thrust and Falcon Heavy rockets partially reusable ...
Musk outlines plans to increase Starship launch rate and …
WEBApr 6, 2024 · Updated April 8 with date of presentation. WASHINGTON — SpaceX could attempt to land a Starship booster as soon as the vehicle’s fifth flight as Elon Musk outlined plans to increase both the ...
Pentagon embracing SpaceX’s Starshield for future military satcom
WEBJun 11, 2024 · SpaceX is supplying Starshield satellites with imaging payloads to the National Reconnaissance Office for a proliferated LEO constellation of surveillance satellites. DoD’s Starshield satellites ...
How low can satellites go? VLEO entrepreneurs plan to find out
WEBOct 5, 2021 · CUTTING COSTS. Satellite constellation operators are well aware of the benefits of VLEO. Planet lowered the altitude of Earth-observation SkySats from 500 kilometers to 450 kilometers in 2019 to ...
Starlink soars: SpaceX's satellite internet surprises ... - SpaceNews
WEBMay 9, 2024 · WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s ambitious Starlink satellite network is exceeding expectations at a blistering pace, according to a new report by Quilty Space, a market research and consulting firm ...
Acquisition of Orbital ATK approved, company renamed
WEBJan 23, 2023 · WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced it has cleared Northrop Grumman’s $7.8 billion purchase of defense and space contractor Orbital ATK. Orbital ATK will become ...
AST SpaceMobile fully funds first five commercial direct-to-device ...
WEBAST SpaceMobile has fully funded its first five commercial satellites slated to launch with SpaceX early next year after raising $115 million in debt, the low Earth orbit direct-to-device startup ...
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WEB6 days ago · Lunar Outpost, one of three companies that won NASA contracts earlier this year to begin design work on Artemis lunar rovers, has added Leidos to its team after parting ways with Lockheed Martin.
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