Beam me up, Jeff! William Shatner lends Blue Origin star power
Saturday, 09 October 2021 09:00
When Star Trek first aired in 1966, America was still three years away from putting people on the Moon and the idea that people could one day live and work in space seemed like a fantasy.
On October 12, William Shatner—Captain James T. Kirk to Trekkies—is set to become the first member of the iconic show's cast to journey to the final frontier, as a guest aboard a Blue Origin suborbital rocket.
NRO establishes licenses and cybersecurity rules for commercial imagery providers
Friday, 08 October 2021 21:20
The National Reconnaissance Office roadmap for bringing commercial satellite imagery into its hybrid space architecture emphasizes cybersecurity and licenses that enable the agency to share data with partners inside and outside the U.S.
NASA Invites Media to James Webb Space Telescope Launch
Friday, 08 October 2021 17:59
Members of the media may now register their interest in attending the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the premier space science observatory for the next decade. Report offers way to ease Mars mission planetary protection requirements
Friday, 08 October 2021 17:56
Future Mars lander missions could adopt less stringent planetary protection requirements by landing in regions of the planet unlikely to allow any terrestrial contamination to propagate, a study concludes.
NGA plans annual survey of international Earth imagery leaders
Friday, 08 October 2021 14:36
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to conduct an annual assessment of commercial satellite imagery like the Olympic-themed evaluation the organization conducted earlier this year.
Week in images: 4 - 8 October 2021
Friday, 08 October 2021 12:05
Week in images: 4 - 8 October 2021
Discover our week through the lens
Newly returned moon rock samples chronicle the dying days of lunar volcanism
Friday, 08 October 2021 10:17
Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches—the lunar maria—visible today on the lunar nearside. Now, thanks to rock samples recently returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission, scientists have a new estimate for when one of the last of those lava flows ran dry.
Industry skeptical about the business case for megaconstellations
Friday, 08 October 2021 10:14
Companies that have demonstrated the technical viability of broadband satellite megaconstellations now face a bigger challenge: closing the business case.
Chinese partnership to create Tianxian SAR satellite constellation
Friday, 08 October 2021 09:52
A Chinese state-owned enterprise and a private firm are partnering to establish a 96-satellite SAR constellation, with the first launch set for February 2022.
Analyst uses radar imagery to shed additional light on Chinese missile sites
Friday, 08 October 2021 07:27
Based on intelligence from SAR imagery, Lewis concluded that the Chinese are building a large wind turbine farm presumably to power missile silos.
Earth from Space: Budapest, Hungary
Friday, 08 October 2021 07:00
Budapest, the capital and most populous city in Hungary, is visible in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Galileo satellites arrive at Europe’s Spaceport
Friday, 08 October 2021 06:20
The latest pair of Galileo satellites have touched down at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, ahead of their launch together next month.
Maxar still confident Legion constellation will be in orbit in 2022
Thursday, 07 October 2021 20:41
Maxar remains confident that it will launch all six of its next-generation WorldView Legion imaging satellites in 2022,
Less restrictive 'bioburden' rules would make some Mars missions simpler
Thursday, 07 October 2021 17:57