US to 'hold Russia accountable' if satellites attacked: W.House
Friday, 28 October 2022 09:26
The United States will respond in an "appropriate" way to any Russian attack against US commercial satellites, the White House said Thursday after a Russian official suggested they could become legitimate targets in space.
"Any attack on US infrastructure will be met with an appropriate response in an appropriate way," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The United NASA generated $71 billion in economic impact in 2021
Friday, 28 October 2022 09:26
NASA's latest economic impact report released Thursday, boasting $71.2 billion in output during the fiscal year 2021.
The report from NASA outlines how its activities, including research and technology, affect the economy. Those activities supported more than 339,000 jobs across the United States while generating about $7.7 billion in tax dollars.
NASA's moon to Mars mission was Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet
Friday, 28 October 2022 09:26
Scientists who study Mars on Thursday revealed the remarkable Christmas gift they received from the planet last year.
On December 24, 2021, a meteorite hit Mars' surface, triggering magnitude 4 tremors, which were detected by NASA's InSight spacecraft - which landed on the planet four years ago - some 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) away.
The true origin of this so-called marsquake wa Sidus Space signs MOU with Mission Space for Space Weather Intelligence Data Partnership
Friday, 28 October 2022 09:26
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Mission Space for a partnership for space weather intelligence data collection.
With this partnership, Sidus Space will integrate sets of Missi Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat
Friday, 28 October 2022 08:37
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Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat SOLARIS Industry Day - update
Friday, 28 October 2022 08:34
To support the preparation of the SOLARIS initiative on Space-Based Solar Power, to be proposed at ESA's Ministerial Council next month, the Agency organised the first SOLARIS Industry Day.
The event took place at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands and online on 18 October 2022.
Presentations from SOLARIS Industry Day
Friday, 28 October 2022 08:34To support the preparation of the SOLARIS initiative on Space-Based Solar Power, to be proposed at ESA's Ministerial Council next month, the Agency organised the first SOLARIS Industry Day.
The event took place at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands and online on 18 October 2022.
Earth from Space: Svalbard
Friday, 28 October 2022 07:00
Extremely high temperatures recorded this summer caused record melting across Svalbard – one of the fastest warming places on the planet. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this rare, cloud-free acquisition of the Norwegian archipelago in August 2022.
Scientists choose first Mars samples worthy of return to Earth
Friday, 28 October 2022 05:40
The first samples to be taken from Mars and sent to Earth will be sourced from Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater floor and nearby ancient delta. The location of an initial cache of samples, called Three Forks, is flat and free of obstacles – an ideal spot for a Mars Sample Return landing and pickup operations.
Major Gomspace satellite customer withholding payments
Friday, 28 October 2022 01:14
Gomspace delayed the release of financial results Oct. 27 as the European smallsat maker tries to get a major commercial customer to pay its bills.
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Russia escalates rhetoric on commercial satellites, calls them ‘legitimate targets for retaliation’
Thursday, 27 October 2022 21:04
A Russian official said at a UN meeting that commercial space systems "may become a legitimate target for retaliation.”
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U.S. national defense strategy calls for ‘resilient, redundant’ space networks
Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:43
The unclassified version of the U.S. national defense strategy released by the Defense Department Oct. 27 forecasts a decades-long competition with China and lays out priorities for the military going forward.
As clock ticks on Amazon’s constellation, buying Starship launches not out of the question
Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:27
Amazon VP Dave Limp said the availability of heavy-lift rockets to deploy Project Kuiper satellites is “a constrained resource."
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As Artemis I launch nears, more Orions on horizon
Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:50
The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions, the first of which could fly in just over 18 months.
Meanwhile Lockheed Martin, the capsule's prime contractor for the first five Artemis flights won a new NASA contract this month to build out another three spacecraft.
"This order includes spacecraft, mission planning and support, and takes us into the 2030s," said Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager for Commercial Civil Space at Lockheed Martin. "We're on the eve of a historic launch kicking off the Artemis era and this contract shows NASA is making long-term plans toward living and working on the moon, while also having a forward focus on getting humans to Mars."
Artemis I is targeting its next launch attempt as early as Nov. 14. The flight will send the Space Launch System rocket topped with Orion from KSC's Launch Pad 39-B on a weeks-long mission that will have it orbit the moon several times and fly farther than, and return to Earth faster than any previous human-rated spacecraft.