Each month we round up some of the top stories in space, entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and technology.
Here’s our round-up for July:
DLR TO FLY EXPERIMENTS ON BLUE ORIGIN’S NEW SHEPARD
The German Aerospace Center, Germany’s space agency, will fly two experiments on a suborbital flight by Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle later this year as part of an effort to diversify its microgravity research efforts. Read the article here.
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NASA SEEKS INFORMATION ON DEVELOPING DEEP SPACE GATEWAY
NASA is taking the next small step in the development of a proposed Deep Space Gateway in cislunar space by requesting information about one of its core modules. Read about it here.
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LUXEMBOURG BUSINESS ANGEL NETWORK ESTABLISHES ITS OWN SPACE ANGEL GROUP
LBAN’s Space Angel group will be organised as a subgroup of LBAN. Its main objectives will to be to bring together interested individual investors into the space industry and stimulate & support Luxembourg´s position as a space nation. To join the group, being a LBAN member will not be a pre-requisite. Read more here.
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THE TINY SATELLITES USHERING IN THE NEW SPACE REVOLUTION
Planet Labs and other companies are sending hundreds of low-cost satellites into orbit. We’re only beginning to understand how that will change life on Earth. Read more at Bloomberg.
PLANET WINS SECOND NGA SATELLITE IMAGERY CONTRACT
Planet has won a second contract to provide satellite imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), beating out contenders UrtheCast, Orbital Insight and Sky Hawk Drone Services. Read more at SpaceNews.
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SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION TO LAUNCH DREAM CHASERS ON ATLAS 5 ROCKETS
The company said Wednesday it signed a contract with United Launch Alliance for two Atlas 5 launches, in 2020 and 2021, of Dream Chaser spacecraft flying cargo missions to the ISS – via SpaceNews.
Original press release at United Launch Alliance.
Featured image: A Sierra Nevada Corp. Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft inside the payload fairing of a ULA Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.