Firefly Aerospace has completed the first hot fire test for its Miranda engine that will power the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle the companies are developing together. US Space Systems Command’s Space Sensing Resilient Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, Missile Defense program office successfully completed the Critical Design Review for its EPOCH 1 space vehicles. Astra Space has raised an additional $2.7 million in “subsequent financing” from two existing investors and the company’s cofounders, and more.

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Selected Reading

Firefly Aerospace Completes First Miranda Engine Hot Fire Test

The first Medium Earth Orbit Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking Program successfully completes its critical design review and goes into production

Solicitation Notice for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services

XArc / Astroport Company Group Announce $1.3 Million in Multiple NASA SBIR/STTR Awards for 2023

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in India, set to strengthen NASA-ISRO partnership- Tech News

United States Securities And Exchange Commission- Astra Space, Inc.

Amazons-Project-Kuiper-and-NTTSKY-Perfect-JSAT-Form-Strategic-Collaboration-to-Bring-Advanced-Satellite-Connectivity-Options-to-Japan

China debuts high-resolution images of China Space Station - CGTN

The case for LEO satellite connectivity in $50 billion EIS contract

Where the naysayers are wrong when it comes to a Space National Guard - Breaking Defense

ESA - Spacelab to Gateway: 40 years of modules for people in space

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