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Bottlenecks emerge in the space industrial base as companies adapt to new demands for faster, cheaper satellites.
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The Canadian Space Agency has awarded MDA Space a contract extension worth around $182 million to continue supporting robotics operations on the International Space Station until 2030.
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The U.S. government craves innovation but sets barriers via ownership stipulations, contrasting with other nations open to R&D funding with less stringent conditions.
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The FAA is revising its licensing regulations to prevent a repeat of a situation last year where a spacecraft launched without approvals to return.
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The Space Symposium has been well known for decades as the world’s largest space gathering, bringing together brilliant minds from government, industry and academia to evaluate progress in space advancements.
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Forecasts from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other heavyweight investment banks of a trillion-dollar space economy by 204 have echoed across the industry for more than half a decade.
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson defended the agency’s plans to cut back or cancel some agency programs at a House hearing, placing much of the blame at the feet of Congress.
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The national security applications for a reusable suborbital rocket ‘haven't been fully explored’
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A group of low Earth orbit satellite operators are banding together to share information about natural and human-made threats to their spacecraft.
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The FCC recently approved a regulatory framework for companies vying to develop mobile satellite services (MSS).
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