A Long March 2C booster launched three Yaogan 30-07 surveillance satellites and a commercial data relay satellite on Friday. The launch was conducted from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 2:11 a.m. local time. The three Yaogan 30-07 satellites will be primarily used for electromagnetic environment detection. The fourth satellite Tianqi 12, a data relay satellite owned by Beijing-based Guodian Gaoke. The spacecraft is part of the company’s Apocalypse Internet […]
Video Caption: Elon Musk hosts Saturday Night Live on May 8, 2021, with musical guest Miley Cyrus.
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, May 10, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The public can follow along on the NASA Solar System Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts using #ToBennuAndBack, and ask questions about the mission by commenting on an Instagram story between 12 p.m. EDT, May 10 and 12 p.m. EDT, May 11. Answers will post to NASA Solar System’s Instagram stories on May 11.
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HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA and Boeing recently completed an integrated mission dress rehearsal of Starliner’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The campaign conducted largely inside Boeing’s Houston-based Avionics and Software Integration Lab (ASIL) culminated in a five-day end-to-end mission simulation known as the ASIL Mission Rehearsal, or AMR.
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WRIGHT BROTHERS FIELD, Mars (NASA PR) — NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet today with its first one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to an airfield 423 feet (129 meters) to the south. After arrival above its new airfield, Ingenuity climbed to an altitude record of 33 feet (10 meters) and captured high-resolution color images of its new neighborhood before touching down.
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WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station and will host a teleconference with media at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 10, to discuss more details about the mission.
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live online at:
(more…)WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has awarded the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development (EED)-3 contract to Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Maryland. The maximum ordering value of this cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task order contract is $275 million. The contract has a five-year ordering period from the effective date of the contract. The purpose of this contract is to acquire services for the continued improvement, reliability, availability, […]
DNIPRO, Ukraine (Yuzhnoye PR) — Yuzhnoye Design Office and the Italian company Avio have reached an agreement on the additional purchase of 10 Ukrainian-made engines for the Vega launch vehicle for a total of almost 6 million euros [$7.2 million].
The Italian side reaffirmed its readiness to expand cooperation on April 28. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the agreement reached by the joint efforts of representatives of the Ukrainian rocket and space industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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- Stable Road Acquisition Corporation Adjourns Special Meeting of Stockholders to May 13, 2021 to Allow Stockholders More Time to Vote on Extension Amendment Proposal
- Approval necessary for in-space transportation company Momentus to go public on Nasdaq stock exchange by merging with Stable Road
Venice, CA, May 6, 2021 (Stable Road Acquisition Corp. PR) – Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC) (“Stable Road”) today announced that its 2021 Special Meeting in lieu of an annual meeting of stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) was convened today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time for purposes of considering the proposals set forth in the definitive proxy statement. At the Special Meeting, the director re-election proposal and the ratification of Stable Road’s independent registered accounting firm were approved by the requisite vote of Stable Road’s stockholders.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 (Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman PR) — Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC is investigating potential claims on behalf of purchasers of Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”) (NYSE:SPCE). Investors who purchased Virgin Galactic securities are encouraged to obtain additional information and assist the investigation by visiting the firm’s site: www.bgandg.com/spce.
The investigation concerns whether Virgin Galactic and certain of its officers and/or directors have violated federal securities laws.
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by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
Virgin Orbit is planning its third launch of small satellites for sometime in June. The Cosmic Girl Boeing 747 will take off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California and drop the LauncherOne booster over the Pacific Ocean.
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REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (NASA PR) — Media will have the opportunity to see the iconic golden mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope open for the last time on Earth during a virtual briefing Tuesday, May 11, at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT). Officials from NASA and Northrop Grumman will discuss the significance of the mirror’s deployment and next steps for the mission as it prepares for launch, which is targeted for Oct. 31. The event will air live via the following link:
https://northropgrumman.qumucloud.com/view/JWST#/
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