Cygnus cargo spacecraft at sunrise: NASA's Randy Bresnik photographed Orbital ATK's Cygnus at sunrise, prior to its departure from the ISS at 8:11 a.m., 12/6/17. Expedition 53 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba gave the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm the command to release Cygnus (nasa.gov)
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There’s no shortage of space technologies that have been proposed as revolutionary for life on Earth and beyond. Jeff Foust review a book that examines some of those technologies, along with those from other fields, that could “improve and/or ruin everything.” (thespacereview.com)
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Companies in the US developing “non-traditional” commercial space missions, like lunar landers of satellite servicing, still face regulatory uncertainty. Jeff Foust reports on how companies, and one government agency, believe that uncertainty should be resolved (thespacereview.com)
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