Summary
The US Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is executing a series of novel maneuvers, called aerobraking, to change its orbit around Earth and safely dispose of its service module components. NASA’s Low-Cost Optical Terminal ground station transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD (TeraByte Infrared Delivery). ispace and the Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) have announced an agreement for a space robotics demonstration on a future ispace mission to the lunar surface, and more.
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