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Whereas there are scant particulars as to the mission profile, I can’t assist however really feel ultra-intrigued by this information from area station developer Gravitics, which was chosen to develop orbital platforms to allow fast response area missions.

Gravitics co-founder and CMO Mike DeRosa did make clear in an e mail that the corporate shouldn’t be placing a module on a rocket for a tactically responsive launch. As a substitute, the mission is said to growing “platforms to allow a brand new sort of tactically responsive area mission,” he stated.

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Protection and area startup True Anomaly has laid off round 25% of workers, and canceled its summer season internship program, TechCrunch discovered.

Whereas TechCrunch couldn’t affirm the overall headcount prior to those layoffs, True Anomaly had over 100 workers as of December 2023, it advised the Denver Enterprise Journal. Practically 30 folks have been reduce from the workforce, in keeping with a publish on LinkedIn from one of many folks let go.

I discovered lots from this deep dive by SpaceNews’ Sandra Erwin and Debra Werner, who explored how the House Pressure’s push for a proliferated constellation of satellites is exposing weaknesses within the U.S. industrial base.

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On Could 1, 1961, the good Alan Shepard turned the primary American to enter area when he piloted his capsule on a 15-minute suborbital flight. (If his identify sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket is known as after him!)

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