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Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22), and you can watch the action live.

Amazon says its Gen 2 network will be important for big enterprise and government customers; FCC still has to rule on Amazon's request for more time to put Gen 1 satellites in orbit. Read More

Gov. Ferguson approves award to Portal from strategic reserve fund for economic development. Read More

"This is the first time we'll have a space layer fully integrated into our warfighting operations."

A lot of critics are raving towards the end of the space exploration age, as aerospace budgets get ever thinner, shuttle programs get retired or the fact that the lunar surface has remained unscratched by human hand for years and years. Where governments might fail, however, one can always put faith in the ever much better organized and efficient private sector, with more and more companies becom…