Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022
Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced an extended multi-launch agreement (MLA) with long-time customer, Internet of Things (IoT) constellation developer, Astrocast. This agreement will add two missions to accommodate Astrocast's fast-growing IoT constellation which helps track assets in some of the world's most remote regions. In February of 2020, Ast

Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 23, 2022
SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announced an agreement with Verizon Communications to expand the US-based mobile carrier's access to a portion of the C-band (3700-3800 MHz) in important regions across the US earlier than the relocation deadlines set out in the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) C-Band Report and Order. SES has already completed its Phas

Sydney (AFP) March 22, 2022
Australia's government on Tuesday launched "Space Command", a new defence agency with echoes of the United States' Space Force that has been tasked with securing the country's place in an "already contested" cosmos. Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the new defence arm would be modest to start with, though he gave no detailed staffing or budget figures. In a speech to the Australian Air

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 22nd flight over the weekend, the space agency announced. "The trip lasted 101.4 seconds and Ingenuity got up to 33 feet in the air," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a tweet Monday. "The team is planning another flight perhaps as early as later this week." During its first 21 flights, Ingenuity flew a total of 15,247 feet an

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022
Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some "gator-back terrain" - some evenly spaced ridges with a blocky expression, as seen in the above Navcam image. Today's one sol plan is focused on a close encounter with one of these ridges through contact science and remote sensing. The plans starts

Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2022
Asteroids hold many clues about the formation and evolution of planets and their satellites. Understanding their history can, therefore, reveal much about our solar system. While observations made from a distance using electromagnetic waves and telescopes are useful, analyzing samples retrieved from asteroids can yield much more detail about their characteristics and how they may have formed. An

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021
The total number of confirmed planets in the universe ticked past 5,000 this week with the addition of 65 exoplanets, NASA says. The space agency said the confirmed planets are just a small fraction of the billions of planets the Milky Way likely holds. That number only increases when considering galaxies outside our own. The newly added exoplanets - worlds that exist outside ou

Launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace has raised $75 million in a new funding round as the company, now under new ownership, prepares for a second launch of its Alpha rocket this spring.

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With extreme weather events threatening to be more frequent and more severe as the climate crisis takes grip, it’s never been more important to have fast and accurate forecasts. ESA and Eumetsat are working hard to ensure that there will be a constant stream of weather data from space for the next decades and that these data will arrive faster and be more accurate compared to what we have today. It is therefore fitting that on World Meteorological Day, ESA can be assured that the first of the next generation weather satellites, Meteosat Third Generation

Fred Kennedy, a former Pentagon official and veteran space executive, announced March 22 he is leading a new startup to commercialize nuclear thermal rocket propulsion. 

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