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Selected Reading
Private equity firm closes $6.4 billion deal to acquire Maxar Technologies- SpaceNews
Apollo to take aerospace supplier Arconic private in $5.2 billion deal- Reuters
Voyager Space Acquires ZIN Technologies, Inc.- PR Newswire
Seraphim picks startups for eleventh accelerator program- SpaceNews
CesiumAstro to supply communications payloads for Space Development Agency satellites- SpaceNews
OneWeb Signs Broadband Deal in the Philippines- Via Satellite
SpaceX launches 56 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea- Space.com 
U.S. Senators Reintroduce Legislation on Commercial Satellite Cybersecurity- Via Satellite 
Europe wants to build a nuclear rocket for deep space exploration- Space.com 
How SpaceX set off a new race to commercialise space- the Economist
A dying star consumes a planet, foreshadowing Earth’s fate- Science

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