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Rocket Report: ULA has a wild idea; Starliner crew will stay in orbit even longer (arstechnica.com)
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Retired military weather satellite breaks up (spacenews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23368451

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The New Glenn rocket’s seven powerful engines may light up as soon as today (arstechnica.com)
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Vast signs agreement with SpaceX for private astronaut missions to the ISS (spacenews.com)
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Firefly wins NASA contract for third lunar lander mission (spacenews.com)
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U.S. Space Force to test laser communications on a GPS satellite (spacenews.com)
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Space Force says first national security Vulcan launch now anticipated in spring 2025 – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
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Russian space chief says country will fly on space station until 2030 (arstechnica.com)
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Firefly, ispace lunar landers to share Falcon 9 launch (spacenews.com)
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OSTP releases cislunar science and technology plans (spacenews.com)
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Chang Zheng 12, ZhuQue-2E fly maiden missions; Hainan spaceport and mega constellations expand - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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Axiom Space revises space station assembly plans (spacenews.com)
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Second Kairos launch fails (spacenews.com)
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NASA endorses “continuous heartbeat” approach to human presence in LEO (spacenews.com)
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Shenzhou-19 astronauts complete record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk (spacenews.com)
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China orbits first Guowang Internet satellites, with thousands more to come (arstechnica.com)
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Belarus claims to have developed a Starlink analog for its troops (arstechnica.com)
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China kicks off Guowang megaconstellation with Long March 5B launch (spacenews.com)
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Rocket Report: Chinese national flies drone near Falcon 9, Trouble down under (arstechnica.com)
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Jared Isaacman makes first public remarks since nomination for NASA Administrator – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
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China launches “laser diamond constellation test” satellites (spacenews.com)
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX plans for five customer missions; Rocket Lab to launch mission for Synspective - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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FAA takes step to streamline launch licensing process (spacenews.com)
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NISAR planned to launch in March 2025 after antenna repairs (spacenews.com)
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🇯🇵 [Space One] KAIROS Flight 2 Launch Thread (self.spaceflight)
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Second launch of KAIROS, following the unsuccessful test flight back in March.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-12-18 02:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-12-18 11:00 (JST) | | Launch site | Space One Launch Pad, Space Port Kii, in Kushimoto, Japan. | | Launch vehicle | KAIROS | | Launch provider | Space One | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and deployment of payload into Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | 和歌山県庁成長産業推進課 (Official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5X5q4GG40 (Dec 14th scrub, Dec 15th scrub)| | TV Wakayama [Official] (Japanese) | none | The Launch Pad (unofficial re-stream) | none | RocketGyan (unofficial re-stream) | none

Space One

Space One is a Japanese private spaceflight company aiming to develop and eventually operate a launch vehicle for small satellites. Founded in 2018 July with investments from Canon Electronics, IHI Aerospace, Shimizu Corporation and the Development Bank of Japan.

KAIROS

KAIROS is a 4-stage launch vehicle, with 3 solid-propellant stages and one 1 liquid-propellant upper stage.

Stats

☑️ 2nd ever launch of KAIROS

☑️ 2nd ever launch from Space One Launch Pad

☑️ 2nd ever Space One launch

☑️ nth Japanese launch this year

Payload info (NextSpaceflight)

5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board:

  • TATARA-1
  • PARUS-T1A
  • SC-Sat1
  • ISHIKI
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