Getting a jump on traffic: The sudden urgency of government-industry partnerships in space traffic management
Thursday, 07 April 2022 18:25
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There is a trend of growing private sector capabilities to track objects and warn of potential conjunctions.
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Path to sustainable space unclear after Russia’s Ukraine invasion
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Before Russia invaded Ukraine, many considered international space cooperation safely insulated from geopolitical strife.
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Starlink loses French spectrum license
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SpaceX has lost the right to provide Starlink broadband services in France after the country’s highest administrative court revoked its spectrum license.
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E-Space sheds more light on sustainable megaconstellation plan
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Megaconstellation startup E-Space is preparing to deploy the first of potentially hundreds of thousands of satellites on a Rocket Lab mission slated for no earlier than April 19.
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Eye on world health
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H a p p y W o r l d H e a l t h D a y
Celebrated each year on 7 April, World Health Day shines a light on a health topic of concern. This year all eyes, including ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer’s, are on the health of our planet Earth.
From on board the International Space Station 400 km above Earth, Matthias has a unique overview of our planet. Beautiful yet fragile, resilient yet under threat, our third rock from the Sun nevertheless needs looking after.
Matthias work in space during Cosmic Kiss reinforces this. Besides taking numerous
Antonov shortage threatens delivery delays for the biggest satellites
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A shortage of Ukrainian Antonov aircraft raises the prospect of more delays for satellite projects already bogged down by supply chain issues.
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Living Planet Fellowship: Call for Proposals
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Living Planet Fellowship: Call for Proposals
Lynk announces deployment of world's first commercial-ready cell-tower-in-space
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Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk), the world's leading satellite-direct-to-phone telecoms company, has announced the successful launch, deployment, and initial on-orbit check-out of Lynk Tower 1. The spacecraft is the company's sixth 'cell-tower-in-space' satellite and is now in position to become the world's first commercial cell-tower-in-space. Lynk Tower 1 is the first satellite covered by Lynk's appl Benchmark Space Systems triples production capacity to meet thruster and in-space mobility demand
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Fueled by major Series A funding and a strong cadence of upcoming government and commercial space missions, Benchmark Space Systems has announced it is tripling production capacity and doubling manufacturing and technical staff to meet huge demand for its Starling and Halcyon propulsion systems.
Benchmark is scaling up to build more than 150 systems over the next eighteen months to enable UK Space Command contracts with SSTL for Carbonite+ satellite
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a 22m pound contract with Defence Equipment and Support on behalf of UK Space Command for a 150kg satellite based on SSTL's Carbonite+. Project TYCHE is the first satellite procurement for the MINERVA programme which is a key enabler in the development of the foundation for a UK Space-based Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) const York Space Systems wins 2nd major contract from Space Development Agency
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York Space Systems (York), a Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to complete space mission solutions, has announced another award from the Space Development Agency (SDA), a $382 million contract to York to deliver 42 satellites in support of SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL). York will produce these satellites, built on the LX-CLASS standard commercial platform, in the new facility for Tianzhou 2 re-enters Earth's atmosphere, mostly burns up
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China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spaceship fell back to Earth on Thursday afternoon with most of its body burnt up during the reentry process, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a statement the robotic craft started to enter the atmosphere around 6:40 pm under the ground control and the extreme heat caused by air friction dismantled and destroyed most of the ship. A few Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls
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Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus - or JET - experiment in England has been called "a breakthrough" by some news outlets and caused quite a lot of excitement among physicists. But a common line rega SwRI scientists connect the dots between Galilean moon, auroral emissions on Jupiter
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On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research Institute scientists used data from Juno's payload to study the particle population traveling along the magnetic field line connecting Ganymede to Jupiter while, at the same time, remotely sensing the Artemis lunar lander contenders revisit team rosters for round two
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Companies interested in a NASA competition for a second Artemis lunar lander are using this week’s 37th Space Symposium to find partners that may result in different teams than the earlier lander competition.