Comspoc embraces startup mentality after AGI spinoff
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:59
SAN FRANCISCO – Now that it’s spun out of Analytical Graphics Inc., Comspoc operates more like a startup focused on space situational awareness, space domain awareness and space traffic coordination and management than a corporate business unit, Travis Langster, Comspoc vice president and general manager, told SpaceNews.
Study of dune dynamics will help scientists understand the topography of Mars
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:04
Barchans are crescent-shaped sand dunes whose two horns face in the direction of the fluid flow. They appear in different environments, such as inside water pipes or on river beds, where they take the form of ten-centimeter ripples, and deserts, where they can exceed 100 meters, and the surface of Mars, where they can be a kilometer in length or more.
NGA evaluates Hawkeye 360 data through pilot program
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Hawkeye 360 is delivering radio frequency data and analytics to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as part of a pilot program to evaluate the value of the information for intelligence activities.
Hawkeye 360 announced Dec. 16 that it has been supplying data to NGA and the U.S.
Capella Space releases high-resolution Spotlight imagery
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Capella Space released radar satellite images with a resolution of 50 centimeters by 50 centimeters, which the San Francisco startup says is the highest resolution available from a commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite operator.
The images released Dec.
ESA and CNES sign contract to maintain and modernise Spaceport
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:00
ESA will contribute to the maintenance, operations and modernisation of Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana over the period 2020–24.
Op-ed | Space commerce accelerating
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:39
Space has forever captured the imagination of people around the world. Starting in the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union recognized the national security importance of space, fueling the initial space race that culminated in the Apollo moon landings.
NASA postpones review of near Earth asteroid detection mission
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:21
WASHINGTON — NASA has delayed moving a proposed mission to search for near Earth objects into its next phase of development because of uncertainty about the budget that will be available for it.
NASA had planned to conduct a review known as Key Decision Point (KDP) B this month of the Near Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor spacecraft, a space-based infrared telescope that would search for near Earth asteroids.
NASA awards prizes to six startup companies in Entrepreneur's Challenge
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
NASA's Science Mission Directorate has awarded prize funding of $100,000 each to six entrepreneurial startup companies under its pilot Entrepreneur's Challenge program for concepts ranging from machine learning to enable exploration and other technologies to new ways to build instruments to study the universe.
NASA partnered with Starburst, the global aero Arianespace to launch next OneWeb batch from Vostochny Cosmodrome
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
Flight ST29, the first commercial mission from Vostochny Cosmodrome performed by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate, will put 36 of OneWeb's satellites into a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 450 kilometers. After separation, the satellites will raise themselves to their operational orbit.
The first six OneWeb satellites were successfully orbited by Arianespace on Soyuz Flight VS21 fr First Space Test Fundamentals Course Begins In January
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Convenes The First-Ever Space Test Fundamentals Course Jan. 4, 2021. The Selection Board Results Were Announced Dec. 10.
"This Important Milestone Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Vision Of U.S. Space Force Leaders. The Value Of Agile, Disciplined Test And Evaluation Spans All Domains, Which Is Why The Air Force Test Pilot School Has Developed T DHL moves from Global to Galactic Forwarding
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
Logistics provider DHL and New Space Company D-Orbit jointly tackle terrestrial challenges and leverage galactic opportunities Bonn, December 15, 2020: DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, normally moves goods that stay in the Earth's atmosphere. Now they have partnered with D-Orbit, a specialized company covering the entire lifecycle of a space Aerojet Rocketdyne powers ULA launch Of NRO Spysat
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
Aerojet Rocketdyne powered the recent successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket launched a classified national security payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Aerojet Rocketdyne supplies the boost engines, upper-stage engines and the composite overwrapped pressure vess Kleos Opens U.S. Engineering Office in Denver Colorado
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
Kleos Space S.A. will establish its principal US engineering presence in Denver, Colorado. Kleos has engaged with Denver Economic Development and Opportunity and selected Denver, Colorado as an ideal location to grow its U.S. engineering presence and to further draw on the region's engineering and aerospace support services. Colorado is creating the foundation to become "Aerospace Alley" and bui Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun's fusion
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen) from our sun's core. These little-known particles reveal the last missing detail of the fusion cycle powering our sun and other stars.
In results published Nov. 26 in the journal Natu From NASA JPL's Mailroom to Mars and Beyond
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 10:07
Don't tell Bill Allen he can't take risks.
Allen was just 17 years old when he first set foot on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the mailroom in the summer of 1981. Voyager had recently encountered Saturn, and the Lab was crawling with members of the media.
"It was like walking into a football stadium in the middle of the touchdown. It was electric," he says.