NASA awards Outpost Phase 2 Ignite SBIR Contract for cargo return studies
Thursday, 05 October 2023 06:27
Outpost Technologies Corporation ("Outpost"), a sustainable space company that is spearheading a new wave of development in Earth Return and Reusable Satellites, announced that it has been awarded a Phase 2 Ignite Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from NASA to continue development of the company's "Cargo Ferry" in order to deliver cargo back to Earth from the International Space Vega's ESTCube-2 tether to the future
Thursday, 05 October 2023 06:27
Estonia's next satellite will fly aboard Europe's Vega VV23 launcher later this week. While largely designed and built by undergraduate students, the shoebox-sized ESTCube-2 has ambitious goals in mind, including surveys of Estonian vegetation and the first successful in-orbit demonstration of 'plasma brake' technology. Deployment of a charged microtether will slow the CubeSat's orbit, proving t DLA Energy supports space missions from coast to coast
Thursday, 05 October 2023 06:27
From coast to coast, Defense Logistics Agency Energy is helping launch rockets and equipment into space.
The DLA Energy Aerospace team fueled two space missions this month: the first launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, tested the U.S. Space Force Rapid Launch Capability and another from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sent National Reconnaissance Office satell US Army awards Comtech $48M for future EDIM SATCOM solutions
Thursday, 05 October 2023 06:27
Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) reports that the company was recently awarded a $48.6 million contract to deliver Enterprise Digital Intermediate Frequency Multi-Carrier (EDIM) modems in support of U.S. Army satellite communications (SATCOM) digitization and modernization programs.
Under the contract, Comtech will design, develop, test, and deliver EDIM units and provide hardware, software, and sus Startups from four nations join 2023 Hyperspace Challenge
Thursday, 05 October 2023 05:00
Northrop Grumman to join Voyager Space commercial space station project
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 23:14
SRI partners with Scout Space and Leidos for debris-tracking project
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 18:54
Space needs better 'parking spots' to stay usable, and an engineer is finding them
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 17:29
Any mission headed to space needs a "parking spot" at its destination. But these parking spots, regions located on orbits, are quickly becoming occupied or more vulnerable to collisions.
Most objects launching to space are satellites, which can travel faster than 4 miles per second in the regions where they park. About 10 times the number of satellites currently in space are expected to launch by 2030. Simultaneously, satellite constellations are increasing in number and size. These are groups of satellites working together as a system, such as for enabling GPS, observation of Earth, internet access and other types of communications.
SpaceX aims for its 50th Space Coast launch this year
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 16:37
SpaceX is targeting its 50th Space Coast launch of the year with another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A Falcon 9 carrying 22 of the company's Starlink satellites is slated for liftoff from Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:45 p.m. with four backup opportunities from 11:38 p.m. until 1:57 a.m. overnight and six backup opportunities late Thursday from 10:29 p.m. until 1:49 a.m. early Friday.
Space Launch Delta 45's weather squadron forecasts a 50% chance for good conditions with 70% chance in event of a 24-hour delay.
The booster on this flight is making its eighth flight and will attempt a recovery landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.
This would be SpaceX's 70th orbital launch of the year across all of its launch pads in Florida and California. It's the 40th from Cape Canaveral with the other 10 Space Coast launches coming from Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX will have managed 50 of the 53 total Space Coast launches this year with two so far from United Launch Alliance and one from Relativity Space making up the rest.
China to send new modules and co-orbiting spacecraft to Tiangong space station
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 13:08
Ozone hole goes large again
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 12:40
Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an ‘ozone depleting area,’ reached a size of 26 million sq km on 16 September 2023. This is roughly three times the size of Brazil.
U.S. Space Force awards Booz Allen $630 million contract for satellite systems support
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 11:07
Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 10:07
A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe’s next Vega launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth’s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA’s decade-in-flight Proba-V.
Study quantifies satellite brightness, challenges ground-based astronomy
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 09:46
The ability to have access to the Internet or use a mobile phone anywhere in the world is taken more and more for granted, but the brightness of Internet and telecommunications satellites that enable global communications networks could pose problems for ground-based astronomy. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aerospace engineer Siegfried Eggl coordinated an international study confirming Space needs better 'parking spots' to stay usable
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 09:46
Any mission headed to space needs a "parking spot" at its destination. But these parking spots, regions located on orbits, are quickly becoming occupied or more vulnerable to collisions.
Most objects launching to space are satellites, which can travel faster than 4 miles per second in the regions where they park. About 10 times the number of satellites currently in space are expected to la