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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Europa Clipper Mission - NASA

$178M for the launch

https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ig-24-001.pdf

$2.5B

Issue No. 278

fear in May

Radiation and Annealing Effects on GaN MOSFETs Irradiated by 1 MeV Electrons

anneal any radiation damage

Instruments | Spacecraft – NASA's Europa Clipper

nine instruments

MASPEX | Instruments – NASA's Europa Clipper

MASPEX

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253567873_Observations_of_Europa%27s_Tenuous_Atmosphere

tenuous gasses

Issue No. 238

Issue № 328

Brightness of first Chinese broadband constellation satellites alarms astronomers

observed

Brightness of the Qianfan Satellites

paper

Spacecraft delivery startup founded by former SpaceX rocket guru raises $150 million, led by Founders Fund

$150M

Mars Mission | Impulse Space

commercial Mars mission

NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power

turned off a plasma science instrument

Momentus facing Nasdaq delisting

delisted from Nasdaq

FAA clears Falcon 9 launch of Hera mission

FAA cleared

SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton

Falcon 9 launched

Commerce begins beta tests of space traffic coordination system

started beta testing

ESA releases new strategy for Earth observation

new strategy for Earth Observation science

https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/ESA_Earth_Observation_Science_Strategy_Guiding_Questions.pdf

guiding questions

Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite service approved for areas hit by Hurricane Helene

granted

€2.4M in ESA Funding to Boost SpaceForest Rocket Development

€2.4M

NASA cites progress in reducing ISS air leak

reduced the size of an air leak

Avio Completes Second Vega C Zefiro 40 Stage Recertification Test Firing

second successful test

ArgoSpace

$7.9M