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Swissto12 said it has raised $70 million in fresh funding to keep up with growing demand for its small geostationary satellite manufacturing business.

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This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US military launch market is both a sign of maturity, as well as an important source of revenue.

The inclusion of Relativity Space, which is making credible progress toward the launch of its heavy-lift Terran R rocket, is perhaps not a huge surprise. Under the leadership of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, the company has continued to work toward bringing the partly reusable rocket to the launch pad.

The addition of Impulse Space, however, was something of a surprise. The company specializes in building spacecraft for in-space operations, rather than launching from Earth.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Avanti Communications is moving to close a chapter on the debt-fueled geostationary expansion that once defined the British satellite operator, with plans to sell the youngest payload […]

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The recent cancellation of three geostationary satellites is another blow for insurers hoping their legacy cash cows would bring home much-needed income following a bruising run of claims. SES disclosed […]

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Claudio Di Russo, entomologo e speleologo affiliato alla Società Speleologica Italiana, ha guidato un’ispezione scientifica all’interno di un condotto artificiale profondo venticinque metri sull’isola di Alonnisos, nel Mar Egeo, scoprendo una nuova forma di vita specializzata per l’oscurità assoluta. Si tratta di una specie sconosciuta di grillo cavernicolo del genere Dolichopoda, individuata mentre si muoveva […]