CBS News reports that in a Monday doubleheader, SpaceX “launched 52 Starlink internet satellites from Florida and then fired off another Falcon 9 from California, putting 72 small payloads from multiple vendors into orbit in the company’s eighth low-cost ‘rideshare’ mission.” The Florida-based mission launched 52 Starlink satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral in a pre-dawn flight to bring the company’s satellite constellation total to 4,595. The Transporter 8 mission “took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Los Angeles at 5:35 p.m. EDT, carrying 72 rideshare payloads provided by multiple vendors and launch brokers.” Transporter missions are “intended to provide low-cost access to space for small payloads that might otherwise have to wait for rides on missions dedicated to larger satellites.” SpaceX “charges $275,000 for a 110-pound payload, and $5,500 for each additional 2.2 pounds.”
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2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum Adds Prominent Speakers
June 1, 2023 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced the addition of several prominent industry professionals and government officials to its 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum, 12–16 June, San Diego. The five-day program will address the theme, “Revolutionary Leaps Toward a New Age of Aviation.”
On Tuesday, 13, June, 0800 hrs PT, Alan Weston, CEO, LTA Research and Exploration, will deliver the day’s keynote address, “Airships: A Sustainable Path to Decarbonizing Transportation and Complementing Humanitarian Aid.” Other new speakers added include:
- Pat Anderson, CTO, VerdeGo
- Natalya Bailey, Chief Operating Officer, Curated Innovation
- Sean Black, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Engineer, Spirit AeroSystems
- Kevin Bowcutt, Senior Technical Fellow and Chief Scientist of Hypersonics, The Boeing Company
- Mina Cappuccio, Deputy Manager for University Innovation Project, NASA Ames Research Center
- Skye Carapetyan, Aircraft Sales & Business Development – Infrastructure, BETA Technologies
- John Deruchie, Chief – Regional Engineering, Transport Canada
- John Katsoudas, Founder & CEO, Influent Energy
- John Morgenstern, Head of Aerodynamics and Boom, Exosonic
- Carie Mullins, Director of Analytics, BryceTech
- Tony Mumford, Principal Flight Sciences Engineer, Overair
- Khin Paing, Vice President of Program Management, Skygrid
- Lisa Peterson, Vice President, Business Development, AURA Network Systems
- Dan Sloat, Founder & President, Advanced Air Mobility Institute
- Jimmy Smith, Unmanned Systems Representative, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)
- Jia Xu, CTO and Senior Director of Engineering, Unmanned Aerial Systems / Urban Air Mobility, Honeywell Aerospace
Registration for the 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum is open. Journalists who wish to cover the forum can request a Press Pass here.
For the most up-to-date program and registration information, visit aiaa.org/aviation.
Media Contact: Rebecca B. Gray, [email protected], 804-397-5270 cell
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Russia Launches Cargo Mission to ISS
SPACE reports that Russia launched the Progress 81 freighter “atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where the local time was 2:32 p.m. in the afternoon.” Progress 81 “is carrying about three tons of food, propellant and equipment up to the International Space Station (ISS)” where it will dock at 9:02 a.m. EDT. NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones said, “It was a perfect launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.”
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Progress 81 Cargo Ship Launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome – June 3, 2022 (NASA via YouTube)