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Canada has unveiled a multi-year plan to enable the nation's first privately built rocket launches as well as create new launch laws in reaction to the surge in demand for space-based services worldwide. The objective is to significantly increase the nation's space capabilities and the commercial space sector, which is primarily made up of companies like Telesat and MDA, as well as the country's presence on the International Space Station. Omar Alghabra, Canada's minister of transportation, announced it at the Canadian Space Agency's headquarters.

The residents of Florida were in for a visual treat when SpaceX launched 53 internet satellites, known as Starlinks satellite, into space. The Falcon 9 rocket's launch didn’t create any excitement per se, but the after effect of it that illuminated the sky mesmerised millions of people in the city. On early Thursday morning, many witnessed a striking spectacle above—an ethereal cloud of illuminated gases that resembled a jellyfish. It earned the moniker “space jellyfish” from the expanding gasses behind the rocket that created these eerie coloured clouds.

Dr K Sivan, the former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has revealed that 1,200 acres of land in southern Tamil Nadu state have been acquired and handed over to the Indian space agency for the construction of the country's second spaceport. Sivan said the second spaceport has been a project that both the Indian government and the Tamil Nadu government have keenly been working on.