NASA still planning HLS awards by the end of April
Saturday, 27 March 2021 22:52
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WASHINGTON — NASA officials say the agency is still planning to make selections as part of its Human Landing System (HLS) program by the end of next month as it takes into account the reduced funding for the program.
OneWeb looking to fill demand for connectivity in the Arctic
Saturday, 27 March 2021 22:00 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — OneWeb plans to start offering broadband from space in the Arctic region this fall, a capability the company hopes will attract U.S. military and other national government customers.
“Our focus now is Alaska and the Arctic,” OneWeb’s head of government services Dylan Browne told SpaceNews.
SpaceX aims to nail landing of Starship on fourth attempt
Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:54 Write a comment
SpaceX plans another attempt to fly and land the company's Starship moon and Mars rocket as early as Monday from Boca Chica, Texas.
The rocket company had filed for "no-fly" notices during daylight hours from Friday through Monday around the SpaceX launch facility in the community about 180 miles south of Corpus Christi.
SpaceX postponed an attempt Friday, with company CEO Elon M Space Force finalizing plan to procure broadband from low-orbit satellites
Friday, 26 March 2021 22:46 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force last week asked satellite internet companies for updates on the performance and capabilities of their networks. This information is intended to help the government decide how to go about buying broadband services from operators of low-orbit satellites.
Satellite launches fueling race to connect out of reach devices
Friday, 26 March 2021 17:39 Write a comment
TAMPA, Fla. — Inaugural satellites for two startups that launched this week on separate rockets aim to disrupt the burgeoning internet-of-things (IoT) market.
Australia-based Myriota has started offering its IoT services in the U.S.
Satellite veteran Edward Horowitz behind latest space-focused SPAC
Friday, 26 March 2021 16:52 Write a comment
TAMPA, Fla. — CEA Space Partners I Corp, a blank check company led by satellite industry veteran Edward Horowitz, plans to raise $250 million in a public stock offering to buy a space business.
NASA looking for earlier launch of lunar orbiter smallsat mission
Thursday, 25 March 2021 18:57 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — NASA is looking at options to move up the launch of a small lunar orbiter mission, illustrating the challenges the agency faces as it seeks to make greater use of rideshare launch opportunities.
The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft is an orbiter equipped with a spectrometer and thermal mapper to study the distribution of water on the moon.
NASA analysis: Earth is safe from asteroid Apophis for 100-plus years
Thursday, 25 March 2021 17:09 Write a comment
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out.
After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 Apophis had been identified as one of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth.
Apophis impact ruled out for the first time
Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:55 Write a comment
New observations of asteroid Apophis – thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068 – rule out any chance of impact for at least a century. After 17 years of observations and orbit analysis, ESA is removing the enormous asteroid from its Risk List.
Week in images: 22 - 26 March 2021
Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:00 Write a comment
Week in images: 22 - 26 March 2021
Discover our week through the lens
Suez Canal traffic jam seen from space
Thursday, 25 March 2021 13:58 Write a comment
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The enormous Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, is visible in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. South Korean leader vows ‘landing on the moon by 2030’
Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:43 Write a comment
SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has vowed to launch the nation’s first robotic lunar lander on a domestically developed rocket by 2030. Moon also said feasibility studies are underway for sending a spacecraft to Apophis, an asteroid that will pass near Earth in 2029.
ESA–EGU announce Excellence Award winners
Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:30 Write a comment
ESA, along with the European Geosciences Union (EGU), are excited to announce the winners of the first ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Awards.
Light show over US sky likely SpaceX debris re-entering atmosphere
Thursday, 25 March 2021 11:49 Write a comment
A spectacular display of lights that streamed across the night sky over the US Pacific Northwest was probably debris from a SpaceX mission re-entering the atmosphere, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
"While we await further confirmation on the details, here's the unofficial information we have so far. The widely reported bright objects in the sky were the debris from a Falcon 9 rocket 2nd stage," NWS Seattle tweeted.
Videos posted on social media showed a thick cluster of glowing dots with blazing trails of light moving slowly across the sky before fizzling out, with users speculating the phenomenon might be a meteor shower or even, jokingly, an alien invasion.
Local media reported multiple sightings just after 9 pm local time, with videos posted online from Washington state and Oregon.
NWS Seattle said the sight was more likely to be caused by space debris rather than a meteor or similar object because the latter would be moving far faster, a conclusion backed up by several meteorologists quoted by local media.
Jonathan McDowell from Harvard's Center for Astrophysics also pointed to the Falcon 9 rocket stage as the source of the firework-like display.
Redwire goes public with SPAC Buyout
Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:48 Write a comment
Redwire, a mission-critical space solutions company, and Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GNPK) ("Genesis Park"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will result in Redwire becoming a publicly traded company. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2021,