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Polaris Dawn

Polaris Dawn

SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn crew on daring excursion into Earth’s radiation belts | CNN

launched in the early morning yesterday

x.com

loss of the venerable fleet-leading Falcon 9 booster B1062

- YouTube

his second video

- YouTube

here

NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test Re-entry and Landing

video

Final Vega launch delayed because of upper stage tank problem

lost fuel tank debacle

Sentinel-2C joins the Copernicus family in orbit

lifted off

Mesa Quantum Announces $3.75M in Seed Funding

$3.75M

Evolution Space tests rocket on Spaceport Company sea-based platform

launched

The Spaceport Company

Spaceport Company’s sea-based platform

ATLAS Space Operations Completes Rapid Onboarding of Critical TROPICS Spacecraft | ATLAS Space Operations

$15M

Senegal among new members of China’s ILRS moon base project

join

Used SpaceX rocket launches 7,001st Starlink satellite (and 20 others), lands at sea (video)

>7,000 active satellites

NGA to launch $700 million program to help AI make sense of satellite images

$700M program

The Orbital Index

shoot Ben a message

SpaceX

public complaint on its website

DART Forward: Five Papers Shed New Light on Astero | Newswise

Five papers

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.02836

Some particles from the impact may even reach Earth in a decade or so

Debris from DART could Hit Earth and Mars Within a Decade

Dimorphids

China to launch Mars sample return mission in 2028, will follow planetary protection guidelines

plans for a 2028 sample return mission

China may include helicopter in Mars sample return mission

helicopter

Issue No. 282

Issue 282

https://spacewatch.global/2024/09/bepicolombo-mission-modifies-trajectory-after-thruster-issue/

flew an altered trajectory