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The preliminary design review (PDR) for the Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter, or FOO Fighter program, has been completed only four months after the company was authorized to proceed...https://lnkd.in/dJRty6JS

Hurricane Milton dips to strong Category 4 storm as it heads for Florida landfallBy Emily Mae Czachor Updated on: October 9, 2024 / 9:39 AM EDT / CBS News "Hurricane Milton was barreling across the Gulf of Mexico as a strong Category 4 storm, bordering Category 5, Wednesday morning on a path toward Florida's central west coast, the National Hurricane Center said. It is currently expected to make landfall in the early hours of Thursday." https://lnkd.in/eGyS3_gh

The world's first #planetarydefence mission is in space & I watched its launch live! 🥹 #Latvia had a role in that mission too, & that's very important for us 🇱🇻☝🏻 ☄️What do we do, if a super large asteroid flies towards the Earth? 🦖 European Space Agency - ESA with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration committed to develop the answer: what if we crashed into an asteroid to change its flight trajectory? 🤔🤝 In 2022, NASA's #DART mission flew into #asteroid Dimorphos. Then, it was ESA's Hera mission's turn to fly to that "crime scene" & study the impact: 🚀 #HeraMission launch on 7 October 2024 by SpaceX #Falcon9 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in FL, USA. 🌪️ 30% chance for launch approval: wind, rain & stress as 4-grade hurricane Milton is heading right towards FL. The launch pad isn't even visible! ⛔️ risks: the "window" is open until 29 October or only in 2 years, when the asteroid is back. And a sad celebration with 300 Europeans in the evening 😔 🚀 10:52 AM: we can't believe our eyes! The sky is clear just for the launch hour! ✨ It goes as planned, but cooler than expected 🤩 The rumble is like a very loud continuos thunder + everything around vibrates quite strongly. It was the 23rd & last launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 (Hera required a flight way above the LEO, too high to reuse the rocket)! 🕓 connection is perfect. Now, 2-year flight to get the #Dimorphos data! 🥹 But for now: awe, celebration & evacuation! 💃 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻 Latvia's Eventech was part of the Hera mission! The Hera mission was also a "cradle" for space tech that spanned beyond the space launch itself. So, Eventech used it as an opportunity to develop & space-qualify their extremely precise instrument to measure time (in 2 picoseconds or 0.000,000,000,002 seconds 🫣) This made Latvia's success story & an exception to the "rule": normally, younger ESA countries need tens of years to get into international space missions. Eventech got this role in just 2 years of Latvia's associate membership in ESA 🦸 Why big deal? Now, Eventech has a globally unique market-ready product for commercial & scientific #space & #Earth applications where ultra precision in measuring time & space with resistance to extreme environments is needed: #radiation, super high/low temperatures, no option to fix stuff, etc. Next? Maybe we fly on the #Ramses mission to the asteroid Apophis? 👀 In fact, it was the Eventech team that had to attend this celebration, but they gave this spot to me 🥺 Thank you so much!!! 🧡 To rewatch the launch: https://lnkd.in/dv6AytYz or the video below of how I saw it! 🧡

Blue Origin to Debut Second #NewShepard Vehicle on Monday, October 7th. New capsule to be named RSS Kármán Line. https://lnkd.in/ed8xTB69

DIRECTV Agrees to Merge With #Satellite Rival DISH Network, 20 Years After it First Attempt at this Business Combination. https://lnkd.in/eG3GhrHS

🚀 Get inspired with award-winning filmmaker and Oxford Executive MBA alumnus Torsten Hoffmann as he talks us through his new Apple TV + documentary - FORTITUDE: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy. 👩🚀 Insights into the film will open your eyes to the thriving space industry, sparking discussion on important topics such as climate tech, diversity and inclusion in space, public and private partnerships, as well as unveiling the latest and upcoming space innovations. 📽 You’ll hear about Torsten’s filmmaking career to date and the role of the Oxford Executive MBA in his success as a media professional. 

Vor 16 Jahren hat es #SpaceX beim vierten Anlauf mit der #Falcon1 Trägerrakete erstmals ins All geschafft. Dem vorausgegangen waren drei Fehlstarts. Das Unternehmen stand damals fast vor dem Bankrott. #Musk hatte einen grossen Teil seines Vermögens aus dem #Paypal-Verkauf in die Gründung und den Aufbau von SpaceX investiert. Insgesamt knapp 100 Millionen US-Dollar. Wäre der vierte Start vom Omelek Island, einem Teil des zu den Marshallinseln gehörigen Kwajalein-Atolls im Pazifik, gescheitert, wäre die Geschichte mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit zu Ende gewesen. Nach dem erfolgreichen vierten Start erhielt SpaceX den ersten #NASA Vertrag aus dem Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) Programm im Wert von 1,6 Milliarden US-Dollar. Der Rest ist Geschichte.🚀

Falcon 9 sends new crew to ISS on first crewed launch from SLC-40 https://lnkd.in/gV82aABy

The first over-the-air demonstration of a hybrid satellite communications (SATCOM) solution has been conducted by Northrop Grumman, providing seamless connection with Viasat and a commercial proliferated low Earth orbit (PLEO) communications provider. The demonstration validated resilient, uninterrupted connectivity while rapidly switching between constellations and orbits...https://lnkd.in/gYFDRMP3