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Highest bid for Blue Origin's maiden voyage $2.6 million and climbing
An online bid for a seat aboard Blue Origin's first crewed spaceflight was going for $2.6 million on Wednesday afternoon as the company prepares to blast off this summer.
Would-be customers have until June 10 before the current phase ends, and the company will hold a live final round on June 12, with the proceeds going to the company's charitable foundation.
Jeff Bezos' space venture is Pangea Aerospace to test aerospike rocket engine
The world first Methalox 3D printed aerospike engine The European space start-up Pangea Aerospace raised euro 3 million to close its seed round. The round has been led by Inveready and backed up by Primo space, Dozen Investments, E2MC and CDTI. The capital raised will be used to additively manufacture and test the first engine of this kind and work towards a commercial-ready aerospike engine wi China postpones launch of robotic cargo spacecraft
The launch of China's Tianzhou 2 robotic cargo spacecraft that was originally scheduled for early Thursday morning has been postponed due to technical issues, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a brief statement shortly before the preplanned launch time that the new launch time will be determined in due course.
It didn't give more details.
b>China t More than 3,000 jobs created as space sector grows across the UK
The UK's space sector has seen growth in jobs and income while investing more in research and development, leaving it well-placed to grow strongly as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, Science Minister Amanda Solloway announced today.
Findings from the latest 'Size and Health of the UK Space Industry' report, commissioned by the UK Space Agency and delivered by know.space, show the sec Xplore opens satellite manufacturing facility to advance satellite production
Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service has announced they are opening a satellite manufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington. Their new, state-of-the-art campus is a key step in the company's mission to expand mass manufacturing of the XCraft the company's highly-capable, ESPA-class satellite, and the LightCraft, Xplore's highly-maneuverable spacecraft for deep s Planetary Atlas Collection: A Kickstarter Campaign that Promotes Space Exploration for Everyone
On the topic of space travel, one of humanities greatest visionary thinkers and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said, "Humans are an adventurous species. We like to explore and are inspired by journeys to the unknown. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Exploration by real people inspires us."
Recent years have validated the adventurous nat China's Tianwen-1 probe sends back Mars landing visuals
Two photos and two videos captured by China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 during and after the country's first landing on the red planet were released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday.
The lander carrying a rover of the Tianwen-1 mission touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, on May 15, becoming the coun 
ESA Astronaut Careers Fair Q&A
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This video is a summary compilation of the questions and answers sessions held during the ESA Astronaut Careers Fair on 22 April 2021. The ESA speakers are Florence Loustalot, Talent Acquisition Specialist; Antonella Costa, HR Business Partner; Dagmar Boos, Head of HR Competence and Policy Centre; and Guillaume Weerts, Space Medicine Team Leader. See the astronaut vacancy notice and other opportunities to work at ESA at https://jobs.esa.int
Further information on the astronaut selection may be found in the Astronaut Applicant Handbook and in the astronaut selection FAQs. If your question is not answered in these documents,
Russia to sell Soyuz space module
Russia has put up for sale one of its space modules, which in 2018 returned a Russian and two Americans from the International Space Station (ISS).
"Descent module No. 738 of the Soyuz MS-08 mission is available on the Glavcosmos web portal for purchase," read a statement issued late Tuesday by Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russia's Roscosmos space agency.
"This lander can become an excellent exhibition showpiece for any public or private exhibition dedicated to aerospace," the statement added.
Glavcosmos spokesman Yevgeny Kolomiyev told AFP that the price of the descent module was not being publically disclosed because it was a "trade secret" and that prospective buyers would need to submit requests through the agency's website.
The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft in March 2018 sent cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold to the ISS.
In October the same year, its decent module, which is up for grabs, returned Artemyev, Faustale and Arnold to Earth landing in Kazakhstan.
Glavcosmos director Dmitry Loskutov told the RIA Novosti news agency he did not rule out in the future selling "other shuttles, once their mission is completed".
