British government releases national space strategy
Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:54
The British government released a highly anticipated space strategy Sept. 27 that outlines its plans to turn the country into a major global space power, but does away with a key metric it had been using to measure its progress.
Mercury ahead!
Tuesday, 28 September 2021 08:00
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on 1 October before entering orbit in 2025.
Space Development Agency revises Transport Layer procurement, with fewer satellites per launch
Monday, 27 September 2021 23:29
The Space Development Agency revised a request for proposals that previously had sought bids for 144 satellites. It is now seeking proposals for 126 satellites, and will procure the other 18 at a later time.
MDA highlights speedy tasking, broad coverage of Radarsat-2 follow-on
Monday, 27 September 2021 23:15
MDA’s Radarsat-2 follow-on will include a C-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite in a mid-inclination orbit capable of collecting imagery in a 700 kilometer swath at a resolution of 50 meters per pixel.
Status of satellite unknown after China conducts pair of launches in 2 hours
Monday, 27 September 2021 21:19
The status of a classified satellite launched from southwest China Sept. 27 remains unknown more than 12 hours after liftoff.
Classified satellite declared lost after China launches twice in 2 hours
Monday, 27 September 2021 21:19The status of a classified satellite launched from southwest China Sept. 27 remains unknown more than 12 hours after liftoff.
Atlas 5 launches Landsat 9
Monday, 27 September 2021 19:17
An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in the Landsat series of Earth science satellites Sept. 27, continuing a program that started nearly half a century ago.
Isotropic Systems completes funding for 2022 commercial launch
Monday, 27 September 2021 19:03
Isotropic Systems said Sept. 27 it raised more than $37 million to fully fund its flat-panel antennas through to product launch in 2022.
Terran Orbital to build plant to produce more than 1,000 satellites per year
Monday, 27 September 2021 18:26
Terran Orbital announced an agreement with Space Florida to establish a manufacturing facility on Florida’s Merritt Island large enough to produce more than 1,000 satellites per year.
Satellite maker Terran Orbital plans major plant in Florida
Monday, 27 September 2021 17:01
Small-satellite maker Terran Orbital plans to build a large manufacturing plant with more than 2,000 employees near Kennedy Space Center's former space shuttle landing strip, the company and Florida officials announced Monday.
The Irvine, Calif.-based company would manufacture fleets of so-called CubeSats, or spacecraft the size of a shoebox, at the 660,000-square-foot plant, Marc Bell, Space Health Institute Releases Postdoctoral Fellowship Solicitation
Monday, 27 September 2021 17:01
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine, with consortium partners California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are seeking exceptional proposals from postdoctoral fellows ready to help solve the challenges of space exploration.
TRISH's postdoctoral fellowship program supports early-career s NASA to launch climate change-tracking Landsat 9 satellite
Monday, 27 September 2021 17:01
NASA plans to launch one of its most high-tech Earth observation satellites to date Monday from California to help track climate events that range from California wildfires to deforestation of the Amazon.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to carry the 5,900-pound spacecraft into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:11 p.m. EDT.
Landsat 9 is the ninth in X-59 nose makes an appearance
Monday, 27 September 2021 17:01
The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft is taking shape at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The team positioned the X-59 QueSST's nose at the front of the aircraft.
As one of the more recognizable features of the X-59, the nose makes up almost a third of the aircraft length and will be essential in shaping shock waves during supersonic flight Hughes conducts multi-orbit demonstration for resilient, secure UAV connectivity
Monday, 27 September 2021 17:01
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) and SES has announced the successful first demonstration of a new multi-orbit satellite communications capability for remotely piloted aircraft. Conducted for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the demonstration paired Hughes HM series software-defined modems and Resource Management System (RMS) with SES's satellites that operate in geosynch Asteroid sample brought back to Earth gets close-up look
Monday, 27 September 2021 16:01
In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the ancient building blocks of the solar system, and scientists have been eager to get a closer look at the returned samples.
Last week, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency shipped one of the samples—a millimeter-sized fragment from the asteroid's surface—to the laboratory of Brown University planetary scientist Ralph Milliken for analysis. Milliken's lab is one of the first in the U.S. to examine a Ryugu sample so far.
Milliken and Takahiro Hiroi, a senior research scientist at Brown, are members of the Hayabusa2 mission's science team.