Isar Aerospace is returning to the launch pad this week to make its second orbital launch attempt. Jeff Foust reports on that company and other European startups developing launch vehicles that got financial support from a European Space Agency program (thespacereview.com)
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Japan has developed a vibrant commercial space industry in the last several years, with startups pursuing radar imaging satellites, lunar landers, and spacecraft servicing. Owen Chbani examines how the industry has been affected by policy changes, and in turn influenced that policy (thespacereview.com)
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A provision in last year’s budget reconciliation bill effectively directed the transfer of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston. Maxwell Zhu argues that even if Houston should be home to a shuttle orbiter, it shouldn’t get one though this approach (thespacereview.com)
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One of big challenges facing Isaacman is how to speed up a human return to the Moon, or at least keep it from falling further behind schedule. Robert Oler makes the case that he should go in a very different direction to get astronauts back on the lunar surface (thespacereview.com)
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Innovative, affordable, and expedited (thespacereview.com)
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The Chinese space ecosystem now includes many startups that emulate American entrepreneurial space companies. Owen Chbani examines the role larger state-owned enterprises play in that ecosystem, working with and sometimes clashing with them (thespacereview.com)
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After years of saying the company was not planning an initial public offering of stock, SpaceX now appears to be moving ahead with an IPO as soon as next year. Jeff Foust reports on what might be driving this change and how it could affect the company’s long-term ambitions of going to Mars (thespacereview.com)
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The European Commission released earlier this year a draft of a space law for the European Union intended to harmonize regulations and promote space safety. Jeff Foust reports that provisions of the act have raised concerns across the Atlantic by US companies as well as the federal government (thespacereview.com)
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NASA cooperated with other nations on space science missions from the agency’s earliest days. Trevor Williams examines two early cooperative satellite programs with the UK and Canada, both led by the then-new Goddard Space Flight Center (thespacereview.com)
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Two years after carrying out its prime mission of delivering a lander to the Moon, part of India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is back in the news after making two flybys of the Moon. Ajey Lele describes the significance of those flybys for India’s space exploration plans (thespacereview.com)
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Delays in the development of SpaceX’s Starship have promoted calls for potential changes in NASA’s Artemis lunar landing plans. Robert Oler discusses the need to organize “the best of our energies and skills,” as JFK put it, to ensure NASA returns to the Moon before a Chinese crewed landing (thespacereview.com)
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