Hosted payloads to fly on LuxSpace Triton-X Genesis
Thursday, 09 February 2023 04:16
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – OHB subsidiary LuxSpace plans to fly DcubeD actuators and other hosted payloads on its upcoming Triton-X Genesis mission.
Shotwell: Ukraine “weaponized” Starlink in war against Russia
Thursday, 09 February 2023 02:55
SpaceX’s president said that Ukraine used Starlink services provided to the country for offensive purposes in its war against Russia, an application the company didn’t intend to support when it enabled service in the country.
Amazon gets key FCC approval for more than 3,000 LEO broadband satellites
Thursday, 09 February 2023 00:24
The Federal Communications Commission approved Amazon’s plan Feb. 8 to deploy and operate 3,236 broadband satellites, subject to conditions that include measures for avoiding collisions in low Earth orbit.
Viasat exploring partnerships for GEO and LEO direct-to-smartphone services
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 21:45
Viasat is exploring hybrid narrowband direct-to-smartphone services using satellites in geostationary and non-geostationary orbits, CEO Mark Dankberg said Feb.
DoD procurement of space tech is evolving, but pace of change is slow
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 21:16
Nicholas Estep, program manager at the Defense Innovation Unit, said there is “natural latency” in the procurement system that is going to slow down adoption of commercial technologies.
Shotwell says SpaceX ready for Starship static-fire test
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 19:52
SpaceX will attempt a static-fire test of all 33 engines in its Starship booster as soon as Feb. 9, a test that could allow the company to attempt an orbital launch a month later.
Maxar receives $192 million contract to supply imagery to U.S. allies
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 18:50
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Maxar a five-year $192 million contract to provide satellite imagery to U.S.
Skeptical investors are placing new demands on space startups
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 18:30
Space startups will need to step up their fundraising efforts if they want to raise money this year from increasingly meticulous investors, according to a panel of early-stage space investment firms.
Don’t forget the ground segment
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 18:24
Space startups often make the mistake of waiting too long to establish the ground infrastructure to support their satellites.
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Small launch industry warns of “bloodletting”
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 15:37
While demand for launches of smallsats is higher than ever, industry officials warned that price pressures and lack of access to capital could cause many companies to go out of business in the near future.
Firefly’s first U.S. Space Force launch targeted for May
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 15:09
The chief executive of Firefly Aerospace Bill Weber said Feb.
ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 15:00
During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it.
The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?
Fundamentals of Space Missions
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 09:37
The newly released book "Fundamentals of Space Missions: Problems with Solutions" (ISBN 9798985668742) provides a comprehensive guide for students, instructors, and professionals alike in the field of space systems and missions.
Written by Professor Mike Gruntman, a renowned astronautics expert who has taught the subject at the University of Southern California for the past 25 years to ove SwRI models explain canyons on Pluto moon
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 09:37
In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the inert icy orbs previously envisioned. An SwRI scientist has revisited the data to explore the source of cryovolcanic flows and an obvious belt of fractures on Pluto's large moon Charon. These new mod Researchers focus AI on finding exoplanets
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 09:37
New research from the University of Georgia reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to find planets outside of our solar system. The recent study demonstrated that machine learning can be used to find exoplanets, information that could reshape how scientists detect and identify new planets very far from Earth.
"One of the novel things about this is analyzing environments where pla