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Beijing’s Satellite Town—designed to concentrate satellite manufacturing and operations—will be completed in the second half of 2026, according to state-owned media Beijing Daily. The project underscores how China is scaling terrestrial space industrial capacity alongside its faster orbital launch cadence.
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By Ars Technica: Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy...
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By NASA: NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched the NASA Force website on Friday, opening applications for.
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By Space.com: "We leaned under and looked at the bottom of that thing, and for four humans just looking at the heat shield, it looked wonderful to us.".
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By SpaceNews.com: Shenzhou-21 astronauts complete third spacewalk, mission extended by a month China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.
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By Reuters: Boeing and its unit Millennium Space Systems are working together to expand production capacity and launch a new satellite platform as they look to fulfill a growing backlog of orders, the aerospace firms said on Thursday.
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By investors.rocketlabcorp.com: LONG BEACH, Calif., April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today introduced a new electric satellite thruster designed for high-volume production to meet the growing demand for.
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