Here is your Friday rundown of the top stories from SpaceNews This Week.
| The 83-launch deal Amazon announced in April 2022 includes 18 Ariane 6 launches, 12 to 27 New Glenn launches and 38 United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur. |
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Amazon is seeking to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit filed in August that alleged that the company's board of directors acted in bad faith when it awarded Project Kuiper launch contracts to Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance. |
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The Federal Communications Commission is standing by last year's decision to deny Starlink nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies. |
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The House on Dec. 14 approved the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 310 to 118. The vote came a day after the Senate approved the bill by an 87 to 13 majority. |
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The European Space Agency is delaying the final flight of the original version of the Vega rocket because of a problem with the rocket's upper stage. |
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China launched its experimental reusable spacecraft for the third time Thursday while maintaining strict secrecy around the mission. |
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As Axiom Space gears up for its third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in less than a month, SpaceX is still determining what launch pad it will use for it. |
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Blue Origin has announced plans to launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on its first flight since a mishap more than 15 months ago. |
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The first NASA satellite to measure air pollution hourly shows so much promise that the space agency is already thinking about ways to extend its life. |
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The first NASA-funded small satellite for exoplanet science is continuing to gather data well beyond its expected lifetime. |
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Four federal agencies have signed an agreement intended to improve cooperation on space weather research and translating that research into operations. |
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Researchers will have rare opportunities over the next year to study solar flares and coronal mass ejections, observations that could lead to improved space weather forecasts. |
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The U.S. Space Force on Dec. 12 unveiled an overhaul of its command structure that consolidates two large organizations under a three-star general. |
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The U.S. Space Force will launch a new market research study next year to assess commercial weather services to fill some of the military's ever-growing data needs. |
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Quasar Satellite Technologies — a startup that tracks radio-frequency signals emitted by satellites and analyzes the radio chatter to draw insights — is setting sights on the U.S. defense and intelligence market. |
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True Anomaly, a startup based in Denver, announced Dec. 12 it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. |
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The Space Force on Dec. 12 kicked off its first national conference focused on professional development, bringing together service members, known as guardians, from across the nascent military branch. |
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Amazon has successfully tested inter-satellite links between its two Project Kuiper prototypes in low Earth orbit, the company announced Dec. 14 as it prepares to start filling out a mesh broadband network in space next year. |
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Satellite manufacturer Apex will open a new factory next year to ramp up production of small satellites. |
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International regulators are set to allow technical studies for changing satellite transmission power limits on the condition that there would not be any regulatory action resulting from them until at least 2031. |
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A House hearing on space mining turned into a partisan debate about both the viability of the nascent field and the jurisdiction of the committee to examine it. |
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Air New Zealand announced plans Dec. 12 to trial Starlink broadband on domestic flights as competition to connect planes from low Earth orbit prepares to take off next year. |
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