- Amazon will invest $120 million in a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Project Kuiper is Amazon’s plan to build a network of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit, to provide high-speed internet access anywhere in the world.
- The 100,000-square-foot processing facility will serve as one of the final steps before the satellites reach orbit, preparing them for launches on the rockets of ULA and Blue Origin.
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- Chandrayaan-3, India’s third mission to the moon, has taken off successfully — almost four years after its predecessor failed to touch down on the lunar surface in 2019.
- On Friday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its ‘Launch Vehicle Mark-III’ rocket carrying the next Chandrayaan (Sanskrit for “moon vehicle”) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in South India’s Sriharikota island.
- The launch happened at 2:35 p.m. IST (2:05 a.m. PDT), the target time that was announced last week.
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- US Congress will pour billions more dollars into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its associated architecture, even as NASA science missions remain vulnerable to cuts.
- Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees recommend earmarking around $25 billion for NASA for the next fiscal year (FY 24).
- However, both branches of Congress recommend increasing the portion of that funding that would go toward the Artemis program and its transportation cornerstones, SLS and the Orion crew capsule.
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- SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1.5 million kilometers away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood.
- It will take a month to get there and another two months before it starts its ambitious six-year survey this fall.
- Named for antiquity’s Greek mathematician, Euclid will scour billions of galaxies covering more than one-third of the sky.
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- Kairan Quazi may have landed a job at SpaceX as a software engineer – but he's still going to need his mom to drive him to work.
- The 14-year-old will start working at Elon Musk's company in the Starlink division next month after he became the youngest graduate of Santa Clara University this week.
- Quazi told Insider: "My mom's going to have to drop me off until I can start driving."
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