Orbit Fab raises $28.5 million
Orbit Fab, a startup developing in-space satellite refueling services, has raised $28.5 million to accelerate work on its first missions.
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch, runs clock down to 10 secs for wet dress rehearsal
SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Liftoff of the giant rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurization issue, SpaceX officials said. Crunchtime ahead for Victus Nox
The U.S. Space Force is conducting an important test of its ability to rapidly respond to world events.
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Options for achieving Tactically Responsive Space
The U.S. Space Force is considering a variety of ways to rapidly respond to changing threats. One option is storing a satellite like Victus Nox, the satellite Millennium Space Systems […]
SpaceX scrubs first Starship launch attempt
SpaceX called off the first attempt to launch its integrated Starship vehicle from Texas April 17 because of a valve problem.
On National Security | Satellite imaging industry responds to demand for intelligence fusion
The war in Ukraine has shown the power of commercial satellites to deliver crucial intelligence to the world. The satellite imagery industry is trying to build on that momentum and […]
SpaceX postpones test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket
SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.
Liftoff of the giant rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurization issue in the booster stage, SpaceX officials said.
SpaceX said the launch will be delayed for at least 48 hours.
Starship had been scheduled to blast off at 8:20 am Central Time (1320 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas.
The US space agency NASA has picked the Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late 2025—a mission known as Artemis III—for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
Keeping watch on aggressor satellites a key challenge for U.S. Space Force
The U.S. Space Force is facing a new challenge in its role to safeguard the country's satellites from foreign threats, as Russian and Chinese satellites engage in disruptive maneuvers and follow other nations' spacecraft in orbit.
Lockheed Martin declares success demonstrating tech for in-orbit satellite servicing
The Linuss experiment — short for Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System — went to orbit on the USSF-44 national security mission launched by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study
Space travel has brought us to our next-door neighbor, the moon, and to the depths of our larger solar community inhabited by giants such as Saturn and Jupiter.
In 1982, Voyager 2 whisked past Uranus closer than any other spacecraft has since, and now is sailing—46 years after its launch—through the constellation of Pavo, some 179 light years from Earth.
But there have been few comparable satellite missions in recent years. Cost is the main obstacle, but time frame is also a factor. The design for such long journeys takes years to calculate, and planning and construction of a space vehicle would take about a decade. Factoring in the time a satellite would require to reach distant targets means our next peek into the stars will likely not come any time soon.
A team of scientists led by Slava Turyshev of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, which launched the Voyager satellites back in 1977, is anxious to get space exploration back on track. The team proposes a novel means of travel that could get us to the stars faster and cheaper.
