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Adam is a journalist who has worked for more than 40 media brands in the UK and Australia. Today, he mostly writes about aviation, space and defence.
Fleet Space Technologies said its new 5,000sqm ‘GHQ’ would be based at the airport’s Catalyst Park precinct and feature “advanced manufacturing and data centre technologies”.
The Australian Space Agency said an alert was issued because the re-entry of the Stage II Soyuz 2-1B Fregat mirrored a “near-identical” mission in August 2023.
Across Australia, a combination of cost-of-living pressures and a reduction in business travel has led to domestic travel stagnating in the last few years.
Labor last year put on hold plans to buy a fourth squadron of F-35s and said it would instead redirect some of that investment towards long-range missiles.
Southern Launch, which operates the site, confirmed Varda’s W-2 spacecraft touched down using a parachute at 1:02am local time and was monitored on the way down with tracking telescopes.
The news caps a remarkable turnaround that saw Rex obtain some of Virgin’s leased aircraft when it entered administration in 2020, before the larger carrier took them back when the same fate befell the regional carrier last year.
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