Tag: Space

Space. Head of UK’s Space Directorate warns of space terrorism (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The decreasing cost of getting payloads on orbit means more people have access to space than ever before. (DKosig/Getty Images)  The head of the United...

Space. BAE Systems eyes new space business with acquisition of In-Space (Andrew Chuter, Defense News)

BAE Systems has taken a step into the satellite sector in the UK with the acquisition of low earth orbit spacecraft builder In-Space Missions....

Space. Now officially a public company, BlackSky moving to expand sales and marketing (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole on Sept. 13 rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange. The satellite imagery and geospatial data provider began...

Space. SpaceX’s Starlink broadband to be available in Japan’s remote areas next year (Park Si-soo, Space News)

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service will be available in Japan’s remote areas starting in 2022. Japan’s major mobile provider, KDDI, announced Sept. 13 a partnership with SpaceX...

Space. Marlink’s sale values maritime connectivity specialist at $1.4 billion (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has agreed to buy a majority stake in Marlink, valuing the maritime connectivity specialist at $1.4 billion. U.S.-based Providence...

Space. BAE Systems to acquire smallsat company In-Space Missions (Jeff Foust, Space News)

BAE Systems announced Sept. 14 that it will acquire In-Space Missions, a company that recently won a contract to build a British military satellite. BAE...

Space. South Korea seeks $553 million space budget for 2022 (Brian Berger, Space News)

In a bid to nurture its nascent domestic space sector, South Korea is seeking a 640 billion won ($553 million) annual space budget for...

Space. Planet provides data to federal civilian agencies under NASA contract (Debra Werner, Space News)

Researchers delving into climate change, biodiversity loss and other topics through work funded by U.S. federal civilian agencies and the National Science Foundation will...

Space. SpaceX launches first dedicated polar Starlink mission (Jeff Foust, Space News)

SpaceX launched its first dedicated polar Starlink mission Sept. 13 as the company moves into the next phase of deployment of its broadband satellite...

Space. Raymond: Small satellites and fast data transforming space business (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

Tiny but powerful spacecraft enabled by microelectronics and advanced propulsion is a transformative trend in the space industry that will benefit national security, Gen....

Space/USA. Potential component defect to delay next Virgin Galactic flight (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Virgin Galactic is further delaying its next SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight in order to check a potential issue the company says is unrelated to an...

Space/USA. Perseverance collects first Mars samples (Jeff Foust, Space News)

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected and stored the first samples of Martian rock for later return to Earth, but exactly when those samples...

Space. Volcanic trenches on Mars (ESA)

This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on...

Space. Earth from Space: Danube Delta (ESA)

The Danube Delta is a labyrinth of water and land shared between Romania and Ukraine, made up of countless lakes, channels and islands lying...

Space. Cassini’s wake: how might a spacecraft disturb its own measurements? (ESA)

Simply by moving through the heavens, spacecraft change the space about them. Such interactions are invisible to the naked eye, but can endanger mission...

Space/Cybercrime. The growing threat of cybercrime in the space domain (Andre Kwok, East Asia Forum)

In July 2021, Richard Branson made global headlines with his journey to outer space on Virgin Galactic’s spaceship. This historical feat proved the feasibility of space...