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This image was taken by the Planet Labs satellite on August 10, 2022, and shows aircraft damage from a Ukrainian strike that occurred just one day earlier, on August 9, 2022. Images courtesy of Planet Labs PBC

The war in Ukraine highlights the strategic importance of private satellite companies in times of conflict

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Shortly after the outbreak of the war, Ukraine, funded by the US government, requested data from private satellite companies around the world. By the end of April, Ukraine received images from American companies minutes after the data was collected. Recently, these photographs were proof of Ukraine's success in blowing up an airport in Crimea with its state-of-the-art fighter jets
The Starliner SM-2 spacecraft, Boeing's next spacecraft, is under construction. Boeing PR photo

Boeing and SpaceX are about two years behind schedule for the development of manned spacecraft (update - CEO of Boeing is fired)

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Virgin's Unity spacecraft is carried aboard its mother plane on a test flight on September 8, 2016. Source: Virgin Galactic.

Saudi Arabia and Virgin Galactic will cooperate in space flights, satellite launches and space tourism

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The lander developed by the Indian TeamIndus group, on which the Hakuto rover will reach the moon. Source: TeamIndus.

The Japanese Hakuto will launch a rover to the moon on top of the Indian team's lander in the Google Lunar X Prize competition

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The landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 launcher from a special angle of view - the bottom of the launcher. Credit SpaceX

The history recorded this week in space

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A rendering of the Dream Chaser spacecraft landing at the Ellington Spaceport in Houston. Illustration: Houston Airports Authority

Ellington Airport in Houston has been licensed as a spaceport

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Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, unveils the Dragon V2 spacecraft, SpaceX's next-generation spacecraft designed to carry astronauts into space (Photo SpaceX).

Elon Musk introduced the first civilian manned spacecraft: SpaceX's Dragon V2

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NASA Deputy Administrator Laurie Graver and Bigelow Aerospace President and CEO Robert Bigelow stand next to the Inflatable Space Station Model (BEAM) during a news conference on January 16, 2013. BEAM is set to be launched to the station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration experiment. NASA photo "A/Bill Ingles

NASA will attach a private inflatable space station model to the International Space Station

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Golden Spike landed on the moon. Illustration: Golden Spike Company

A private company will offer manned flights to the moon

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Artist's impression of the Mars One lander on Mars, a version of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

A private company promises to land humans on Mars in 2023, in one direction

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket when canceling the launch right at the end of the countdown, 19/5/2012. Photo: NASA TV

At the last second, the launch of Falcon 9 with Dragon - the first private spacecraft to the space station - was canceled

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Orbital Sciences is one of many companies seeking to produce a 'space taxi'. PR photo - Orbital Sciences Corporation

Many companies offer to build a "space taxi"

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Many companies are interested in providing services for taking passengers into space and returning them from there for NASA's commercial space program CCDev 2, in which the agency encourages commercial companies to manufacture their own space vehicles, and provide seats in them to NASA
The secret cargo has been revealed. cheese. Photo: Chris Thompson, SpaceX

The secret payload of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft

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Extraction of the SpaceX Dragon capsule. On December 8, 2010. Photo: NASA

SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 spacecraft carrying the Dragon satellite

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The passenger cabin, the space plane of the company EDAS - ASTRIUM which is under development

Signs of increased privatization of the space sector and cooperation with industry

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The passenger cabin of Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft. Photo: PR

Boeing will fly passengers into space for Space Adventures * has developed a private passenger spacecraft

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Kennedy gives the famous "Moon Speech" on May 25, 1961 and announces the US intention to reach the moon

A new and profitable space vision on his side

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The Apollo 11 crew - the pioneers of the moon landing. From left to right: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collin and Buzz Aldrin. Photo: NASA

Until 2020 we will not reach the moon

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The spaceship Spaceship-2 at the moment of separation from the plane carrying it: "White Knight 2"

The complete guide to the private space industry

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