York Space to triple satellite production to meet military and commercial demand
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 12:00
COLORADO SPRINGS – Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear and other defense officials on April 4 toured the manufacturing facilities of Denver-based York Space Systems, one of three companies selected to build satellites for the Defense Department’s internet-in-space constellation.
Amazon signs on launch partners for space internet
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 11:59
Colorado Springs (AFP) April 5, 2022
Amazon on Tuesday announced deals for scores of launches to deploy a "constellation" of satellites in low orbit around the Earth to provide internet service to people below.
Amazon said that its contracts with Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.
The overall cost and timing of launches booked to ma

Amazon signs multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper launch contracts
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 10:00
In the largest commercial launch deal ever, Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper broadband megaconstellation
Juice minisite
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:12
Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
HENSOLDT Cyber and Beyond Gravity team up for robust satellite cybersecurity
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:03
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
HENSOLDT Cyber will supply its high security IT operating system TRENTOS to Beyond Gravity's for its latest satellite computer . The company's say this will ensure a high level of IT security for satellites is at the heart of today's efforts to make satellites more robust and reliable.
"As satellites have become increasingly critical to the infrastructure of modern society, there is an inc

German satellite EnMAP launches successfully
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:03
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
It all began in 2003 with a competition announced by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center as part of the National Space Programme. The task was to design and build a new type of hyperspectral instrument and a satellite to carry it, and to test both the instrument and its satellite for several years in the harsh conditions of space.
At the same time, an (inter)national com

SpiderOak and Lockheed Martin Space enter space cybersecurity + blockchain collaboration
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:03
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
SpiderOak Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space's Mission Solutions business are developing and testing a zero-trust cybersecurity platform to secure data across the space data supply chain. The two companies have signed an agreement to field key components of the SpiderOak OrbitSecure platform. OrbitSecure allows national security and civil space agencies to harness the commerci

Slingshot Aerospace wins US Space Force contract
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:03
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building world-class space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX.
The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company's Digital Space Twi

New technical concept for NATO's Future Surveillance and Control capabilities
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 07:03
Falls Church VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Airbus Defence and Space together with Northrop Grumman and seven industrial players forming the ASPAARO (Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations) team have been selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to conduct one of three Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS). The studies aim to suggest technical solutions for the Alliance Future

Axiom-1 targets Friday for ISS launch after NASA delays moon rocket test
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 4, 2021
Axiom Space announced it would delay its first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to no earlier than Friday, April 8.
If all goes as planned, a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket will ferry four private citizens, strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, to the space station. Liftoff is scheduled for 11:17 a.m. EDT.
The mission was scheduled for Wednes

Shake and Bake as NASA's Psyche tested in spacelike conditions
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2022
To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid.
The conditions that a NASA spacecraft endures are extreme: the violent shaking and cacophony of a rocket launch, the jolt of separating from the launch vehicle, the extreme temperature fluctuations in and out of the Sun'

Hubble finds a planet forming in an unconventional way
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called "disk instability."
The new world under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas with distinct spiral str

Prenatal protoplanet upends planet formation models
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date.
It's location and the surrounding patterns of matter suggest that an alternative method of planet formation may be at work. This discovery could help to explain the histories and features of extrasola

Early Universe bristled with starburst galaxies
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
In the first few billion years after the Big Bang, the universe contained far more so-called starburst galaxies than models predict. As many as 60 to 90 percent of the stars in the early universe appear to have been produced by galaxies undergoing a growth spurt. This is what an analysis of more than 20,000 distant galaxies show. The team, led by astronomers from University of Groningen (the Net

Kleos launches Patrol Mission satellites
Tuesday, 05 April 2022 03:07
Luxembourg (SPX) Apr 01, 2022
Kleos Space S.A, (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, successfully launched its third satellite cluster, the Patrol Mission on 01 April 2022 onboard the Transporter-4 SpaceX mission.
The D-Orbit Orbital Transfer Vehicle carrying the four Patrol Mission satellites has been successfully deployed into a 500km Sun Synchrono
