Terran Orbital touts military and defense contracts ahead of going public
Thursday, 17 February 2022 23:27
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Terran Orbital executives told investors the company is heavily weighted toward government work and expects significant revenues from defense and intelligence contracts
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Florida’s Space Coast is busier than ever, but there’s room for more
Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:00 Write a comment
Long the busiest space launch complex in the United States, Cape Canaveral and Kennedy extended their combined five-year streak as the busiest commercial, civil and military launch range in the world.
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Eutelsat pushes back return-to-growth forecast amid satellite delays
Thursday, 17 February 2022 21:15 Write a comment
Eutelsat said Feb. 17 it expects a revenue slump to stretch into 2023 as it awaits the launch of two delayed satellites critical to a turnaround.
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Copernic unveils platform with sale of lunar payload
Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:23 Write a comment
Copernic Space, a Los Angeles startup, unveiled its blockchain-powered platform for selling space assets.
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Copernic Space unveils platform with sale of lunar payload
Thursday, 17 February 2022 19:23 Write a comment
Copernic Space, a Los Angeles startup, unveiled its blockchain-powered platform for selling space assets.
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State Fight: A coast-to-coast battle to bring home the space jobs
Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:46 Write a comment
With California losing its luster as the aerospace industry’s golden state, a coast-to-coast competition for space companies is heating up.
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State Fight: Virginia is for rockets
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This could be a pivotal year for the Virginia Space.
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Starship lookalike among China’s new human spaceflight concepts
Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:40 Write a comment
China is researching and developing new vehicles for various human spaceflight missions, including a new methane-fueled launcher apparently inspired by SpaceX.
Space acquisition nominee: Satellites must be defended, ‘the economy depends on space’
Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:36 Write a comment
Frank Calvelli, nominated by President Biden to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, said Feb. 17 that the United States needs to move quickly to protect satellites so they can be “counted on during times of crisis and conflict.
Wanted: your new ideas for navigation
Thursday, 17 February 2022 13:52 Write a comment
It is hard to overstate the importance of knowing precisely where (and when) you are and where you are going within today’s economy and society. Do you have a promising idea to improve the current positioning state-of-the-art? Then ESA’s navigation-focused NAVISP research programme wants to hear from you, before the end of March.
SpaceLink hires Axiom to support ISS communications demonstration
Thursday, 17 February 2022 13:00 Write a comment
SpaceLink announced plans Feb. 17 to work with Axiom Space to conduct the first demonstration of its space data relay service on the International Space Station.
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Astroscale preparing to restart debris-removal demo
Thursday, 17 February 2022 11:04 Write a comment
Astroscale said Feb. 17 it is preparing to resume an attempt to capture a satellite acting as a piece of debris in low Earth orbit, after pausing the demonstration three weeks ago to troubleshoot undisclosed problems.
Shanghai signs agreement with China’s megaconstellation group, aims to foster commercial space hub
Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:31 Write a comment
Shanghai local government entered an agreement with the state company responsible for China’s planned broadband megaconstellation Wednesday, while also aiming to foster a space hub to support reusable rockets and satellite mass production.
ESA to set up committee to study human space exploration options
Thursday, 17 February 2022 09:21 Write a comment
The European Space Agency will establish a committee with representatives from both inside and outside the space industry to develop options for a European human space exploration program.
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Gaia reveals a new member of the Milky Way family
Thursday, 17 February 2022 07:00 Write a comment
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, began forming around 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has been growing in both mass and size through a sequence of mergers with other galaxies.
Perhaps most exciting is that this process has not quite finished, and by using data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, astronomers can see it taking place. This in turn allows to reconstruct the history of our galaxy, revealing the ‘family tree’ of smaller galaxies that has helped make the Milky Way what it is today.
The latest work on this subject comes from Khyati Malhan, a Humboldt Fellow at the