Tag: Space

Space. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample (NASA)

This sealed titanium sample tube contains Perseverance’s first cored sample of Mars rock. The rover’s Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam) captured...

Space. NASA, SpaceX Continue Planning for Next Crew Rotation Missions to International Space Station (Danielle Sempsrott, NASA)

With a view of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at left, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s...

Space. Rocket Flight to Sharpen NASA’s Study of the Sun (NASA)

The EVE payload is loaded onto a cart for transport at the White Sands Missile Range. Credits: NASA It’s best not to look directly at the...

Space. Targeted launch date for Webb: 18 December 2021 (ESA)

ESA, NASA and Arianespace have jointly defined 18 December 2021 as the target launch date for Ariane 5 flight VA256. This third Ariane 5...

Space/Agriculture. Earth Observation Trainings for Agriculture (UNOOSA)

Space radar image of Dnieper River, Ukraine. Credit: NASA/JPL From the monitoring of natural resources to precision agriculture, Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing play...

Space. DARPA awards Lockheed Martin $25 million contract modification for integration of Blackjack satellites (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

DARPA is developing a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit known as Blackjack. Credit: DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency increased Lockheed...

Space. Space Force awards ManTech $476 million contract for launch systems engineering services (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

The Space Force launch enterprise manages the national security space launch program. Seen here is a National Reconnaissance Office satellite launch on a United...

Space. Bradford’s Comet production moves to Luxembourg (Debra Werner, Defense News)

Bradford Space is establishing a manufacturing facility in Luxembourg for its Comet water-based electrothermal propulsion system. Credit: Bradford Space Bradford Space is updating its Comet...

Space. Exotrail to provide thrust for York cislunar mission (Debra Werner, Space News)

French startup Exotrail signed a contract with York Space Systems to provide propulsion for a cislunar communications satellite. Credit: Exotrail York Space Systems plans to...

Space. Inmarsat Q&A: Orchestrating a new multi-orbit broadband constellation (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

Satellites in Inmarsat’s GEO fleet, including Inmarsat-6 F1 seen here entering thermal vacuum tests, will work in harmony with its LEO satellites under Orchestra....

Space. Starbridge raises $12M in fresh capital for application-focused space startups (Brian Berger, Space News)

Starbridge Venture Capital COO Michael Mealling, third from left, said Sept. 7 that the firm raised $12.1 million in fresh capital to invest in...

Space. UN space office seeks consensus on space traffic management (Debra Werner, Space News)

Simonetta di Pippo, director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. spoke Sept. 7 at the Satellite 2021 conference in Maryland. Credit:...

Space. Launch providers argue against a “magic number” for price to orbit (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Rocket Lab says its customers are focused less on a specific price per kilogram and instead willing to pay a premium for getting payloads...

Space. DoD a challenging customer for fast-moving satellite broadband industry (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

Space industry and government officials discuss low Earth orbit satellite communications at Satellite 2021 in National Harbor, Maryland. Credit: Sandra Erwin/ SpaceNews Companies that provide...

Space. Kymeta announces successful OneWeb antenna tests (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

Kymeta tested its u8 terminal with OneWeb's LEO constellation in France. Credit: Kymeta / OneWeb Kymeta said Sept. 7 that it successfully tested its u8...

Space. Satellite operators see acquisition opportunities (Jeff Foust, Space News)

SpaceX's CFO says his company's acquisition of Swarm Technologies was driven by that company's "interesting" intellectual property and team. Credit: Swarm Technologies Companies that operate...