Nearly 400 sunrises in 12 days (but likely no minibar): This luxury space hotel will be 200 miles up and $792,000 a night

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[ad_1] Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut’s life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat. But what if your chance of having the right stuff for NASA’s astronaut corps is, to say the least, minimal? Aurora Station, billed as the “first luxury hotel in space,” may be for you. Houston-based Orion Span Inc. hopes to launch the modular…

‘Cell phone towers in space’: Startup Kepler Communications plans first Canadian nanosatellite launch

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[ad_1] A Toronto nanosatellite startup with its sights set on the telecommunications market announced it will launch its first satellite from India in November on the same rocket that launched a record number of spacecraft in the country earlier this week. Kepler Communications Inc. contracted Netherlands-based Innovative Space Logistics to arrange its inaugural mission from…