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MediaFaro News Digest<p>The German government supports a mobile satellite launch plan in the North Sea.</p><p>The German Ministry of Transport has approved €870,000 for a planned offshore spaceport.</p><p>This will enable the German Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) to develop a “holistic” solution for the spaceport for primarily commercial orbital and suborbital launches by the end of September.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250213-the-german-government-supports-a-mobile-satellite-launch-plan-in-the-north-sea?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250213</span><span class="invisible">-the-german-government-supports-a-mobile-satellite-launch-plan-in-the-north-sea?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/NorthSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthSea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Spaceport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spaceport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Satellite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Orbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orbital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Suborbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suborbital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Rocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rocket</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Rockets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rockets</span></a></p>
The Science Fiction Guy<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/commercial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commercial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/virgin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virgin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/suborbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suborbital</span></a></p><p>Virgin Galactic signs agreement to study suborbital spaceflights from Italian spaceport </p><p><a href="https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-signs-agreement-to-study-suborbital-spaceflights-from-italian-spaceport/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-</span><span class="invisible">signs-agreement-to-study-suborbital-spaceflights-from-italian-spaceport/</span></a> via @SpaceNews_Inc</p>
Alan Boyle<p>Jeff Bezos' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueOrigin</span></a> space venture launches a new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewShepard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewShepard</span></a> rocket ship on an uncrewed certification flight in preparation for boosting its capacity to send customers on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/suborbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suborbital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> trips. A dozen payloads were flown, including a set of mini-monoliths for a premium edition of "2001: A Space Odyssey." <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2024/blue-origin-new-new-shepard-uncrewed-test/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">geekwire.com/2024/blue-origin-</span><span class="invisible">new-new-shepard-uncrewed-test/</span></a> #2001</p>