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

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

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

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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