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Shenzhou-18 Crew Records Video Showcasing Life, Work in Space

Shenzhou-18 Crew shared a video showcasing life and work on the CSS

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a video of a solar eruption

SpaceX launches 20 Eutelsat OneWeb broadband satellites to orbit (video)

launched

Constellation Technologies Raises €9.3M Seed Round

$10.1M in seed funding

NASA’s TDRS System to Stop Onboarding New Missions in November

stop onboarding new missions

NASA Contracts SpaceX, Amazon, Viasat, and Others for TDRS Replacement System

commercial replacement

Future of Copernicus Expansion Missions secured

expand Copernicus with six additional missions

ESA Selects Kepler to Lead Development of HydRON Optical Laser Network – Kepler

$39.1M contract

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/biden-administration-ease-restrictions-space-related-exports-allies-2024-10-17/

easing restrictions

D-Orbit enters GEO in-orbit servicing market

$131M ESA contract

Airbus to cut up to 2,500 jobs amid space segment losses

reduced its workforce

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID165709700820241015141432.0001%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue?modalOpened=true

FAA license

Blue Origin launches 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket, nails landing (video)

twice-postponed

Hyperspectral imagery startup Wyvern looks to raise US presence with $6M raise | TechCrunch

$6M

Andrew McCarthy on Instagram: "Our future in space is bright, and there will be many more significant milestones on the path to expanding into the solar system. I wasn’t alive for the moon landing,...

a video about its production

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-landing/

propulsively land

'We will not fail': The Extremely Large Telescope in Chile is astronomy's next big thing — if it works

A visual article about telescopes

ELT | ESO

Extremely Large Telescope

How SpaceX's Starship Caught Its Booster on Re-entry: A Control Engineering Masterpiece

A quick look at some of the control systems approaches required

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/dave-eggers-jet-propulsion-laboratory-nasa-who-is-government/

long form article

China launches second batch of 18 satellites for Thousand Sails megaconstellation

launched

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OroraTech raises 25 million euros for satellite wildfire detection system

$27.2M Series B