Rocket Lab to launch NASA smallsat using SBIR award
Monday, 11 October 2021 09:24
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Rocket Lab will launch a NASA technology demonstration satellite under an unconventional arrangement as the agency works on a more standardized approach for launching smallsats.
Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities
Monday, 11 October 2021 08:00 Write a comment
The new heart of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office was inaugurated today, heralding a new chapter in the Agency’s work to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids.
Blue Origin delays William Shatner's space flight
Sunday, 10 October 2021 18:43 Write a comment
Blue Origin announced Sunday it was delaying an upcoming flight set to carry actor William Shatner to space due to anticipated winds.
Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk in the cult classic TV series "Star Trek," is due to become the first member of the iconic show's cast to journey to the final frontier as a guest aboard a Blue Origin suborbital rocket.
Boeing and NASA continue to investigate Starliner valve problem
Saturday, 09 October 2021 20:39 Write a comment
NASA and Boeing are targeting the first half of 2022 to launch the rescheduled test flight of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle as engineers continue to investigate a valve problem that postponed the mission two months ago.
Beam me up, Jeff! William Shatner lends Blue Origin star power
Saturday, 09 October 2021 09:00 Write a comment
When Star Trek first aired in 1966, America was still three years away from putting people on the Moon and the idea that people could one day live and work in space seemed like a fantasy.
On October 12, William Shatner—Captain James T. Kirk to Trekkies—is set to become the first member of the iconic show's cast to journey to the final frontier, as a guest aboard a Blue Origin suborbital rocket.
NRO establishes licenses and cybersecurity rules for commercial imagery providers
Friday, 08 October 2021 21:20 Write a comment
The National Reconnaissance Office roadmap for bringing commercial satellite imagery into its hybrid space architecture emphasizes cybersecurity and licenses that enable the agency to share data with partners inside and outside the U.S.
NASA Invites Media to James Webb Space Telescope Launch
Friday, 08 October 2021 17:59 Write a comment
Members of the media may now register their interest in attending the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the premier space science observatory for the next decade. Report offers way to ease Mars mission planetary protection requirements
Friday, 08 October 2021 17:56 Write a comment
Future Mars lander missions could adopt less stringent planetary protection requirements by landing in regions of the planet unlikely to allow any terrestrial contamination to propagate, a study concludes.
NGA plans annual survey of international Earth imagery leaders
Friday, 08 October 2021 14:36 Write a comment
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to conduct an annual assessment of commercial satellite imagery like the Olympic-themed evaluation the organization conducted earlier this year.
Week in images: 4 - 8 October 2021
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Week in images: 4 - 8 October 2021
Discover our week through the lens
Newly returned moon rock samples chronicle the dying days of lunar volcanism
Friday, 08 October 2021 10:17 Write a comment
Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches—the lunar maria—visible today on the lunar nearside. Now, thanks to rock samples recently returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission, scientists have a new estimate for when one of the last of those lava flows ran dry.
Industry skeptical about the business case for megaconstellations
Friday, 08 October 2021 10:14 Write a comment
Companies that have demonstrated the technical viability of broadband satellite megaconstellations now face a bigger challenge: closing the business case.
Chinese partnership to create Tianxian SAR satellite constellation
Friday, 08 October 2021 09:52 Write a comment
A Chinese state-owned enterprise and a private firm are partnering to establish a 96-satellite SAR constellation, with the first launch set for February 2022.
Analyst uses radar imagery to shed additional light on Chinese missile sites
Friday, 08 October 2021 07:27 Write a comment
Based on intelligence from SAR imagery, Lewis concluded that the Chinese are building a large wind turbine farm presumably to power missile silos.
Earth from Space: Budapest, Hungary
Friday, 08 October 2021 07:00 Write a comment
Budapest, the capital and most populous city in Hungary, is visible in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.