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Voyager Space and Airbus Announce Joint Venture to Build and Operate Starlab
DENVER,?Aug. 2, 2023?/PRNewswire/ --?Voyager Space ?(Voyager), a global leader in space exploration, and Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus), the largest aeronautics and space company in?Europe, today announced an agreement paving the way for a transatlantic joint venture to develop, build, and operate Starlab, a commercial space station planned to succeed the International Space Station. The US-led joint venture will bring together world-class leaders in the space domain, while further uniting American and European interests in space exploration.
"We are proud to charter the future of space stations with Airbus," says?Matthew Kuta, President at Voyager Space. "The International Space Station is widely regarded as the most successful platform for global cooperation in space history, and we are committed to building on this legacy as we move forward with Starlab. We are establishing this joint venture to reliably meet the known demand from global space agencies while opening new opportunities for commercial users."
Voyager was awarded a?$160 million?Space Act Agreement (SAA) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in?December 2021?via?Nanoracks , part of Voyager's exploration segment. Part of NASA's Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program, this SAA sets the foundation to create Starlab, a continuously crewed, free-flying space station to serve NASA and a global customer base of space agencies and researchers. The program's mission is to maintain continued human presence and American leadership in low Earth orbit (LEO). Today's announcement builds on an agreement made public in?January 2023 , where Voyager selected Airbus to provide technical design support and expertise for Starlab.
Startup iRocket signs agreement to develop and test hardware at U.S. Air Force facility
iRocket signed a four-year cooperative research and development agreement with AFRL’s Rocket Propulsion Division
August 2, 2023
WASHINGTON — Innovative Rocket Technologies, known as iRocket, has signed an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion hardware.?
The New York-based startup, founded in 2018, develops rocket engines and plans to build a small launch vehicle.
iRocket signed a four-year cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, with AFRL’s Rocket Propulsion Division, the company said Aug. 2.
The CRADA includes use of an Air Force facility, equipment and AFRL expertise “to enable both sides to develop, build, test and transition U.S. rocket engines at a fast pace,” said Shawn Phillips, chief of AFRL’s Rocket Propulsion Division.
“iRocket will have the opportunity to further advance and demonstrate their high thrust technology,” he said.?
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“AFRL is very supportive of development efforts for rapid access to space to support Air Force and Space Force needs for 100% reusable rockets,” said Phillips.
Probing the origin and evolution of water-rich asteroids
August 2, 2023
The United Arab?Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt ?is ambitious. EMA will fly past six asteroids and rendezvous with a seventh, Justitia.
Equally ambitious is EMA’s national goal. To strengthen the Emirates’ private space sector, more than half the work will be performed by UAE companies.
Spearheading the EMA is Director Hoor Al Mazmi, who joined the UAE Space Agency in 2017 as a space science researcher. Al Mazmi earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Al Mazmi spoke with?SpaceNews?about the goals, challenges and importance of the EMA.
SpaceX launches Intelsat’s last C-band clearing satellite
August 3, 2023
TAMPA, Fla. — The last satellite Intelsat needs to claim nearly $5 billion in total C-band spectrum clearing proceeds is performing well after launching Aug. 3. on a Falcon 9, its manufacturer Maxar Technologies said.
The Galaxy-37/Horizons-4 satellite started communicating with ground crews and successfully deployed solar arrays shortly after separating from the rocket, which launched at 1:00 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
It will take about three weeks for the chemically powered spacecraft to reach its 127 degrees West orbital position, Intelsat senior vice president of space systems Jean-Luc Froeliger told?SpaceNews?in an interview.
The five-metric-ton satellite is slated to enter service around the end of September following final health checks upon reaching its geostationary parking slot.
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