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The cargo spacecraft Progress MS-17 has been successfully de-orbited and dumped in the Pacific Ocean far away from shipping routes.

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Thales Alenia Space has inaugurated a new Friction Stir Welding facility at one of its production sites in Turin, which will double production capacity of pressurised modules, for the production of the future orbiting and surface infrastructures.

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NASA continues bringing the Hubble Space Telescope back to normal science operations, most recently recovering the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on 21 November.

BlackSky’s latest satellites reached orbit and delivered first insights within 14 hours of launch.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the Sun and its connection to ‘space weather’. During the flyby Solar Orbiter must pass through the clouds of space debris that surround our planet, making this manoeuvre the riskiest flyby yet for a science mission.

Aon plc, a professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, announced a new collaboration with satellite and persistent monitoring expert ICEYE to provide insurers with flood hazard data following severe flooding events in Japan, helping them to reduce volatility and better understand the post-event impact on their portfolios.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with SES to deliver two Ku-band geostationary satellites, ASTRA 1P and ASTRA 1Q to serve SES’s major European broadcasters’ content distribution operations as well as deliver connectivity services over Europe at 19.2° East.

ICEYE announced that it has entered into a co-operative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) to advance Earth observation technology in support of U.S. Army missions.