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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued its note to interested parties that it is contemplating a new move as far as satellite C-band frequencies. This move is of […]
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The new year has gotten off to a cold and snowy start with the polar vortex affecting much of the United States along with the first coast-to-coast storm of 2025. […]
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NASA’s oldest astronaut, Don Pettit, launched aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the […]
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Aldoria is reporting that the Russian satellite, Luch-2, continues to closely approach telecommunication satellites in GEO at an altitude of 35,780 km. Early in July, Aldoria’s tracking system detected Luch-2 […]
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Russia wants have about 2,600 satellites in orbit by 2036, according to Yury Borisov, the head of the Roscosmos space agency. Notably the country aims to put Sfera communications satellites […]
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U.S. Space Command confirms the break-up of RESURS-P1 (#39186), a Russian-owned, decommissioned satellite, that occurred in LEO on June 26, 2024, at approximately 1000 MT (1600 UTC), resulting in more […]
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Russia successfully launched its Angara A5 space rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday afternoon after two aborted liftoff attempts earlier this week. The heavy-lift rocket was initially scheduled for […]
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Third time is possibly the charm that Russia will try on Thursday to proceed with a test launch of its Angara-A5 space rocket in the Vostochny Angara Test Flight of […]
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Roscosmos prepares to launch the meteorological satellite Meteor-M 2-4 on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket on Wednesday, February 28 at 9:43 PST. Additionally, it will carry a total of 18 rideshare […]
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The following is an X “tweet” threat reacting to the possibility of Russia fielding a space-based anti-satellite weapon that the White House has called “a violation of the Outer Space Treaty” from Dr. Laura Grego, […]
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