~orbitalindex | Issue No. 281 (66)
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China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink
may grow to as many as 14,000 satellites
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Chinese rocket stage breaks up into cloud of more than 700 pieces of space debris
scattered over 700 pieces of space debris in a fairly high 800 km orbit
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https://spacewatch.global/2024/08/equatorial-space-announces-close-of-series-a-funding-round/
$1.5M Pre-Series A (that’s a Seed round, right?)
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Astranis CEO Talks 2024’s Largest US Space Funding Round
$200M raised last month by Astranis for more of their microGEO sats
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NASA considering returning Starliner astronauts on Crew Dragon
contingency plans for the use of the next SpaceX Dragon capsule
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-talks-land-recover-starship-rocket-off-australias-coast-2024-07-29/
landing and recovering a Starship rocket off the Australian coast
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Although it’s not final, SpaceX just got good news from the FAA on Starbase
asked the FAA to allow RTLS for Starship and Super Heavy and to allow up to...
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Elon Musk Really Hates Getting Permits to do Stuff
have a track record of asking for forgiveness, rather than permission
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After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
ULA is forbidding launch photographers with remote cameras at their LC-41 launch pad to sell their...
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How Europe’s biggest rocket came to be: Ariane 6 montage
montage of the construction of Ariane 6
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Campaign 2-2 Update, and Our Journey Through Flight Test — Dawn Aerospace
Mk-II Aurora test aircraft
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Metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor split water to generate 'dark oxygen,' new study finds
Metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor split water to generate 'dark oxygen,' a new study finds
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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/08/gaia-binary-asteroids/
Gaia data has identified 352 potential asteroids with ‘asteroid-moons’
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There are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of one
first space mission to perform proximity operations around a piece of real, uncooperative space debris
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Olympics on the International Space Station
astronauts held their own Olympics on the ISS
