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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 electronic mail that the corporate will not be placing a module on a rocket for a tactically responsive launch. As an alternative, the mission is expounded to growing “platforms to enable a new kind of tactically responsive space mission,” he stated.

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

Whereas TechCrunch couldn’t verify the whole headcount prior to those layoffs, True Anomaly had over 100 staff as of December 2023, it instructed the Denver Business Journal. Practically 30 folks had been reduce from the workforce, according to a post on LinkedIn from one of many folks let go.

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

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