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SpaceX to transform oil rigs into floating offshore launch pads

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The European Union (EU) spends €82.5 million to support six infrastructure and digitalisation projects of the Pan-African Programme, Space in Africa reported.

The European Commission asked a consortium of European launchers and operators as well as policy and legal institutes to develop a framework and guidelines for Space Traffic Management (STM).

Softbank invests $350m and takes 30% OneWeb stake

Despite SLS setback, Orion ready for Artemis I flight

Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space with LauncherOne

NASA and its prime contractor Boeing suffered a "major setback in their deep-space ambitions" on Saturday when the engines of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) booster shut down after only 67 seconds in a crucial ground test, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote.

by Dr. Olga Stelmakh-Drescher and Prof. Steven Freeland Space Sustainability is the crucial requirement for a long-term and effective operational space environment. Being highly multifaceted, it has many interdependent and complementary constituent elements, facets and vectors – it is an enabler of continuous and unconditionally safe activities in space, as well as a driver of change as regards …

In this Space Cafè “Black Ops by Ralph Thiele #2”, Colonel (Ret`d) Ralph Thiele, Chairman of the Berlin based Political-Military Society, President of Euro Défense-Germany, and Managing Director of StratByrd Consulting, Germany talked with his guests about the Implication for Security & Defence coming with quantum technologies.