Space-as-a-service startup Xplore has brought in $16.2 million to date including venture capital funding and contracts.

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NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build a small rocket that will transport samples collected by the Perseverance rover into orbit around Mars.

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A planetary scientist and university president will be the next person, and first woman, to run NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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NASA’s very first helicopter to fly on Mars In April of this year, NASA made history, by proving that it is possible to create and sustain powered, controlled flight on Mars, despite its atmosphere being nearly 100 times thinner than that of Earth, with just one-third of the same gravitational pull. Ingenuity was sent to

Microsoft is working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to speed up the  process for scheduling communications with distant spacecraft through NASA's Deep Space Network. 

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A SpaceX cargo ship splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf of Mexico this week, returning from the International Space Station after a 34-day mission with a spacesuit used for spacewalks, and research specimens for distribution to scientists around the world.

SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft, closing out a month-long mission, undocked from the International Space Station Sunday after a two-delay in its departure to wait for better weather in the capsule's recovery zone off the coast of Florida. Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico is scheduled for Monday.

Elon Musk's stance is overly optimistic. Space is big, but LEO is not big enough to safely accommodate tens of billions of satellites.

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