Op-ed | Hazards don’t stop at the Kármán line
Monday, 26 December 2022 08:59
To ensure the safety of spaceflight travelers from launch to landing, the United States should consider the continuity of a single executive agency overseeing commercial human spaceflight activities.
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NASA begins construction on asteroid-detecting space telescope
Sunday, 25 December 2022 11:55
Construction is set to begin on NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to search for hard-to-find comets and asteroids that approach the area near Earth.
The NEO Surveyor passed a technical programmatic review and will now move into the construction phase.
"The mission supports the objectives of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) at NASA He Congress adds $1.7 billion for U.S. Space Force in 2023 spending bill
Saturday, 24 December 2022 19:17
The 2023 omnibus spending package includes $26.3 billion for the U.S. Space Force, nearly $1.7 billion more than the Pentagon requested
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Senate passes orbit debris cleanup bill
Friday, 23 December 2022 19:16
The Senate passed legislation that would direct NASA to establish a program to remove orbital debris, but supporters of the bill will have to try again in the next Congress to enact it.
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Video: Flight control, space weather and debris: What an astronaut needs to know
Friday, 23 December 2022 15:19
Recently, Andreas Mogensen, now getting ready for his "Huginn" mission to the ISS in 2023, stopped by ESA's ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, to meet with some of the experts who keep our satellites flying.
Andreas usually works at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston as an ISS "capcom," and we don't often see him in Europe. A few months back, while returning to Germany for some training at ESA's Astronaut Center in Cologne, we seized the opportunity to ask him if he'd like to stop over in Darmstadt for a look behind the scenes at mission control, and he immediately answered, "yes!"
Andreas studied aeronautical engineering with a focus on "guidance, navigation and control of spacecraft" and we thought he'd be delighted to meet with the teams at mission control doing precisely that sort of work for our robotic missions.
We figured he'd also enjoy meeting colleagues from our Space Safety program, especially the ones working on space debris and space weather, as these are crucial areas that influence the daily life of astronauts on the ISS.
Connecting the Dots | Speeding up the satellite regulatory machine
Friday, 23 December 2022 14:35
The quadrennial wait for updating global spectrum rules stands in stark contrast to the rapid pace of change now sweeping through space and terrestrial communications.
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The Rest of 2022’s Notable Nine
Friday, 23 December 2022 14:18
Ukraine and Elon Musk weren't the only big stories of 2022. These seven commanded our attention with actions that will reverberate well into 2023.
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Dark clouds, silver linings: Five ways war in Ukraine is transforming the space domain
Friday, 23 December 2022 14:00
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was the biggest story of 2022. Aside from reviving Cold War fears of nuclear war and playing havoc with energy markets, it’s been a black swan event for a space industry still adjusting to a black swan called COVID.
Chile's ALMA observatory resumes work after cyberattack
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
The ALMA telescope in the Chilean Andes has resumed operations nearly two months after shuttering due to a cyberattack, the observatory said Wednesday.
ALMA, the world's most powerful telescope for observing molecular gas and dust, studies the building blocks of stars, planetary systems, galaxies and life itself, according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), its co-operator.
The NASA performs spacewalk to install solar array on space station
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
NASA astronauts on Thursday morning successfully attached a solar array on the International Space Station after a piece of space junk was determined to be flying dangerously close to the orbiting laboratory.
Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio began the spacewalk at 8:19 a.m. EST to install an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array, or iROSA, to augment power generation f Mini satellite helps Macao students learn about space
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
China recently deployed a mini satellite to a low-Earth orbit to help students in the Macao Special Administrative Region learn about spaceflight activities.
The 12-kilogram satellite, named Macao Student Science Satellite 1, was released into orbit by the Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft on Sunday, Ho Iat-seng, chief executive of the Macao SAR, announced on Tuesday as the region marked its 23r Iridium introduces its latest IoT data service
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) has announced the service introduction of Iridium Messaging TransportSM (IMTSM), a two-way cloud-native networked data service optimized for use over Iridium Certus and designed to make it easier to add satellite connections to existing or new IoT solutions.
IMT provides an IP data transport service unique to the Iridium network, designed for smal Momentus announces 2nd Services Agreement with CUAVA
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that plans to offer transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, has announced an agreement with the Australian Research Council Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, and their Applications (CUAVA) for the transportation of the Waratah Seed WS-1 CubeSat to low-Earth orbit in October 2023.
The Wara NASA sets table for safe air taxi flights
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
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Tabletop exercises allow researchers to explore options and test scenarios in fields from military strategy and cybersecurity to disaster response planning. Now, NASA is using tabletop exercises to test how electric air taxis will fit safely into the national airspace - allowing passengers to one day hop across town or to a neighboring city by using new highway 392D CTS completes its first USEUCOM-focused SPACE FLAG exercise
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
The 392d Combat Training Squadron under Delta 1, Space Training and Readiness Command, recently completed SPACE FLAG 23-1, which provided combat training to both U.S. and Coalition forces. SPACE FLAG 23-1, which ran from Dec. 5-16, was the third Coalition SPACE FLAG and the 16th iteration of the SPACE FLAG exercise series. 23-1 was the first in the SPACE FLAG program to exercise combat tactics i