FCC considers new rules for emerging space capabilities
Thursday, 11 August 2022 15:06
An inquiry into updating rules around space debris and emerging on-orbit services seeks to position the U.S. as a leader in an emerging space economy.
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Spaceflight’s chemically powered space tug heads for launch
Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:14
Spaceflight shipped its Sherpa-LTC2 orbital transfer vehicle Aug. 10 to Cape Canaveral in Florida, where it will make a second attempt to debut the chemically powered space tug on a SpaceX launch.
Download your Thursday ‘News from the 2022 Small Satellite show’ digital edition
Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:47
The SpaceNews editorial team is producing a daily for the 2022 Small Satellite show, a nightly email newsletter and all-day web coverage during the 2022 Small Satellite show in Logan, Utah the week of August 9.
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Scientists detect newborn planet that could be forming moons
Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:37
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 10, 2021
For the first time, scientists have discovered what appears to be a brand new planet, 395 light-years from Earth, that could be forming moons.
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, recently detected gas in a circumplanetary disk, the third one ever discovered.
Circumplanetary disks are comprised of gas, dust and debris around young planets th
For the first time, scientists have discovered what appears to be a brand new planet, 395 light-years from Earth, that could be forming moons.
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, recently detected gas in a circumplanetary disk, the third one ever discovered.
Circumplanetary disks are comprised of gas, dust and debris around young planets th M2 satellite delivers Australia's first high-res Earth observation images
Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:37
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
A UNSW Canberra Space satellite mission, known as M2, is now delivering Australia's first high-resolution remote sensing image of the Earth. UNSW Canberra Space Director Professor Russell Boyce said the capture of the image is an important step forward for Australia's sovereign space capabilities, with the same mission also successfully collecting and transmitting commercial aviation identificat
A UNSW Canberra Space satellite mission, known as M2, is now delivering Australia's first high-resolution remote sensing image of the Earth. UNSW Canberra Space Director Professor Russell Boyce said the capture of the image is an important step forward for Australia's sovereign space capabilities, with the same mission also successfully collecting and transmitting commercial aviation identificat Maxar to build 14 space platforms for L3Harris to support SDA's Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Program
Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:37
Westminster, CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2022
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has announced it has been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for its Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA).
SDA selected L3Harris as a prime for i
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has announced it has been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for its Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA).
SDA selected L3Harris as a prime for i RocketStar set to launch TriSept satellite security solution aboard experimental payloads
Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:37
Chantilly VA (SPX) Aug 10, 2022
TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, has completed the integration of two experimental mission payloads running its new TSEL satellite security operating software for a suborbital test flight aboard RocketStar's launch vehicle set to liftoff from the Koehn Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.
TriSept has teamed with RocketStar and its 40-
TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, has completed the integration of two experimental mission payloads running its new TSEL satellite security operating software for a suborbital test flight aboard RocketStar's launch vehicle set to liftoff from the Koehn Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.
TriSept has teamed with RocketStar and its 40- J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South Korea
Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:37
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 10, 2022
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced it has signed an agreement with South Korean investment group J-Space. The agreement will allow the companies to assess candidate spaceport launch sites in South Korea, with the goal of providing satellite launch services from there using Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne System.
The cooperative effort is designed to act as a catal
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced it has signed an agreement with South Korean investment group J-Space. The agreement will allow the companies to assess candidate spaceport launch sites in South Korea, with the goal of providing satellite launch services from there using Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne System.
The cooperative effort is designed to act as a catal Astro Digital Q&A: Taking smallsats to the mainstream
Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:01
Astro Digital started out in 2015 with plans for an Earth observation constellation but pivoted three years later to instead provide its small satellite technology as a service for other operators.
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Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.
The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice.
"We find that Mars' crust is weak and porous. The sediments are not well-cemented. And there's no ice or not much ice filling the pore spaces," said geo
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.
The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice.
"We find that Mars' crust is weak and porous. The sediments are not well-cemented. And there's no ice or not much ice filling the pore spaces," said geo Do 'bouncing universes' have a beginning?
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles.
Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe should have no beginning and no end - only eternal cycles of growing and shrinking that extend forever into the future, and forever into the past.
It's an appealing concept in part becau
In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles.
Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe should have no beginning and no end - only eternal cycles of growing and shrinking that extend forever into the future, and forever into the past.
It's an appealing concept in part becau Astroport Space Technologies awarded 2nd NASA for lunar construction
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. has been awarded its second NASA Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the construction of landing pads on the Moon.
Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for "Lunar Surface Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield Construc
Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. has been awarded its second NASA Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the construction of landing pads on the Moon.
Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for "Lunar Surface Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield Construc Building on Mars or the Luna: You'll need extraterrestrial cement for that
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
Newark DE (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn't currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.
So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there's no Home Depot in outer space?
"If we're going to live and work on another planet like Mars or the moon, we need to make concrete. But we can't take bags
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn't currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.
So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there's no Home Depot in outer space?
"If we're going to live and work on another planet like Mars or the moon, we need to make concrete. But we can't take bags One more clue to the Moon's origin
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the Moon. It was not until Galileo's time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers put forward numerous, much debated theories as to how the Moon was formed. Now, geochemists, cosmochemists, and petrologists at ETH Zurich shed new light on the Moon's origin story. In a study just p
Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the Moon. It was not until Galileo's time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers put forward numerous, much debated theories as to how the Moon was formed. Now, geochemists, cosmochemists, and petrologists at ETH Zurich shed new light on the Moon's origin story. In a study just p Northrop Grumman invests in new solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities in Magna, Utah
Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:57
Magna UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2022
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is expanding its solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities with the groundbreaking of new state-of-the art facilities to support nearly every phase of solid rocket motor manufacturing, including case manufacturing, propellant mixing and casting, and final assembly.
The infrastructure investment and expansion of solid rocket motor manufacturing wil
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is expanding its solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities with the groundbreaking of new state-of-the art facilities to support nearly every phase of solid rocket motor manufacturing, including case manufacturing, propellant mixing and casting, and final assembly.
The infrastructure investment and expansion of solid rocket motor manufacturing wil