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Russian satellites trailing US spy satellite in orbit | JD Supra

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[author: Wayne White] In a recent statement, General John “Jay” Raymond, the commander of the new US space force, said that since last year two Russian satellites have exhibited “unusual and disturbing behavior” while tracking a multi-billion dollar US spy satellite in orbit. Launched in November last year, Kosmos 2542, an inspection satellite, launched a …

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Geopolitics goes into orbit with the space ambitions of the United States and China | East Asia Forum

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Author: Saadia M Pekkanen, University of Washington Space stations are the harbinger of a growing bipolarity in international space relations. The United States leads the International Space Station (ISS) and will lead everything after it, but it is no longer considered the undisputed unipolar power in space. China now also has a national space station, …

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Rocket Report: SpaceX launch delayed indefinitely; Virgin Orbit cancels funding round

Rocket Report: SpaceX launch delayed indefinitely; Virgin Orbit cancels funding round

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Enlarge / The Terran 1 rocket is displayed in the hangar of Relativity Space in Florida. Trevor Mahlman Welcome to Rocket Report 5.19! Back from the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s plenty of news to tackle this week, including an SLS rocket performance bulletin (excellent) and some wild and woolly news from north of the US border. …

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Utah State University's Deep Space Radio makes history by reaching moon orbit

Utah State University’s Deep Space Radio makes history by reaching moon orbit

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LOGAN, Utah (ABC4) – A deep space radio built by Utah State Universityit is Spatial Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is now orbiting the Moon in a program unlike any other in human history. The radio is part of a NASA mission called Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – or “CAPSTONE”. The USU-designed …

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Where do you need to impact an asteroid to effectively deflect its orbit?

Where do you need to impact an asteroid to effectively deflect its orbit?

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Optimal impact location and direction for near-spherical asteroid Bennu and elongated asteroid Itokawa. In general, yellow regions are better for deflecting an asteroid than green ones. Credit: Tsinghua University Recently, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a 170m Dimorphos asteroid at 6.6km/s, as the first in-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection by kinetic …

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A Long March 6A rocket on the pad at Taiyuan spaceport in November 2022, ahead of launch of the Yunhai 3 satellite.

Chinese rocket body shatters in orbit after successful satellite launch

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China sent the Yunhai 3 environmental monitoring satellite into orbit on Friday (November 11th), in the second launch of the country’s new Long March 6A rocket. The Long March 6A lifted off from the hilly Taiyuan satellite launch center in northern China at 5:52 p.m. EST on November 11 (2252 GMT; 6:52 a.m. Beijing time …

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