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2023.03.15 | Rocket Lab Establishes Australian Subsidiary to Support Rapidly Growing National Space Sector

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 March 2023:

Space Show News:

  • Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has established a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Rocket Lab Australia, to explore opportunities to support the expansion of Australia’s national space capabilities.
  • Rocket Lab to launch multiple Acadia Earth-imaging satellites for Capella Space, an American space tech company and a leading provider of commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. 
  • Spaceflight Inc. Readies BlackSky Satellites for Upcoming Rocket Lab Launch. 
  • NASA to reveal the Artemis Moon mission spacesuit designed by Axiom Space
  • NASA announces the selection of Axiom Space to provide the third private mission to the International Space Station
  • Detection of barium in the atmospheres of WASP-76b and WASP-121b exoplanets.


    • What’s with Dark Matter?: DAMPE and VLAST hope to find out.

    Skykraft satellites are operational in orbit but how many of them are there?


    Planet Earth: Season 4 - Episode 46

    • Pamela Melroy and the Earth System Observatory satellites and the Earth Information Centre
    • China launches a pair of geographic mapping, land resource surveys and science experiments
    • NASA’s Compact Total Irradiance Monitor (CTIM) cubesat
    • Tianhe 6A and 6b; CTIM 1; ICEYE; GeoCarb; GRACE-FO; Landslide Hazards; SWOT. (Inserts courtesy NASA HQ, ICEYE, USRA & JPL). 
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      The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia