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French startup HyLight has raised €13 million to develop a fleet of autonomous airships for inspecting infrastructure. The funding will support its effort to scale an airship-based inspection service, though the report provides no details on deployment timelines, customers or the size of the planned fleet.
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French startup HyLight has raised €13 million to develop a fleet of autonomous airships for inspecting infrastructure. The funding will support its effort to scale an airship-based inspection service, though the report provides no details on deployment timelines, customers or the size of the planned fleet.
NASA has released the final request for proposals for the next phase of its program to develop commercial space stations. The solicitation moves the procurement beyond the earlier draft stage, inviting proposals for the effort’s next phase.
NASA has released its final request for proposals inviting U.S. industry to develop, certify and operate privately owned space stations. The solicitation sets out how the agency plans to procure commercial destinations as it prepares for operations beyond the International Space Station.
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Four months after a New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, Blue Origin says it remains on track to return the vehicle to flight before year-end. Attention is now on the reconstruction of Launch Complex 36 and whether work is nearing the halfway point, with roughly three months left in the year.
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Elon Musk says Starlink will keep its satellite internet service affordable in India, where data prices are among the world’s lowest, positioning the service against Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio. The comments come days before Jio’s parent company is set to launch what is described as India’s largest-ever IPO.
Tech companies are accelerating bond issuance even as financing costs rise, challenging the usual pattern of slowing sales when debt gets more expensive. Talk of potentially large financings from SpaceX and Broadcom has sharpened investor concern about the growing wave of corporate debt.
SpaceForest completed the fourth launch of its PERUN suborbital rocket, describing the flight as the vehicle’s most successful test to date. The launch marks another test milestone for the Polish rocket builder’s suborbital program; the available report provides no further flight results or schedule details.
Amazon Leo says it remains on track to begin initial broadband service this year, with its first launch on ULA’s Vulcan and its third flight on Europe’s Ariane 6 in the 64-booster configuration expected “in the coming weeks.” The missions are part of the constellation’s deployment sequence.
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