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New Frontiers: U.S. Space Force, Zenno, and SpaceX Propel the Next Era of Space Innovation

The US Space Force is making headlines by awarding contracts to Viasat and Intelsat for new anti-jam communication satellites. These are part of a program to develop a jam-resistant satellite communication fleet, and it’s a pretty big investment—we’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars.On a global scale, there's some exciting news from Zenno Astronautics—they've become the first company to operate a superconducting product in space, which is a huge leap for space infrastructure technology.And if we zoom in a bit, there’s also a lot of buzz around SpaceX and its recent IPO. The company's shares have been soaring, and it’s causing a lot of excitement in the market.It’s definitely an exciting time in space industry! 
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SpaceX is Hoping to Turn Atmospheric CO2 Into Rocket Fuel

SpaceX is still building and testing its Starship prototypes, and we could see them fly to orbit in 2022. Each rocket is enormous and contains a huge volume of methane fuel for propellant that'll add tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with each launch. Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX would attempt to use a chemical process to extract carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and use this to manufacture methane at the rocket launch site. Although the process works, nobody's ever tried making it at this scale.

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