Tag: Space

PNT alternatives champion open-market approach (SpaceNews)

Jason Rainbow Competing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) companies are joining forces to accelerate efforts to back up global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The Open PNT...

Space Force standing up STARCOM to train guardians (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. Space Force is set to establish its third and final field command Aug. 23 as part of a significant restructuring of its...

Il Giappone porterà a Terra un pezzetto di luna marziana (Global Science)

Giulia Bonelli Mentre la corsa alla Luna della Nasa riceve un ulteriore colpo, anche per quanto riguarda Marte l’agenzia statunitense potrebbe essere battuta sul tempo. Almeno...

Stop della NASA per lo Human Landing System (Global Science)

Francesco Rea Stop della NASA per la realizzazione per Human Landing System affidata a SpaceX. La decisione, riporta Spacenews, presa a valle della decisione della Blue Origin di intentare...

Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX (SpaceNews)

Jeff Foust NASA will stop work on a Human Landing System award to SpaceX through the end of October as a federal court takes up...

Space – Astronauts conduct second Chinese space station spacewalk (SpaceNews)

Andrew Jones Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming embarked on a second Shenzhou-12 spacewalk late Thursday to carry out work on a space station...

Space surveillance sensor supplier Geost acquired by private equity firm (SpaceNews)

Sandra Erwin Geost, a company that supplies space surveillance sensors to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, has been acquired by ATL Partners, a private...

SpaceX wants to give Starship lead role in revised second-gen Starlink plan (SpaceNews)

Jason Rainbow SpaceX is proposing to use Starship to rapidly deploy its second-generation Starlink constellation, providing denser rural coverage without needing more than the 30,000...

Dickinson: US Space Command is on ‘good glide path’ to full operational capability (Defense News)

Jen Judson Gen. James Dickinson, the first commander of U.S. Space Command, has been focused on putting meat on the bones of the new organization since...

Spaceborne Computer-2 shows results on space station (Space News)

Debra Werner After completing the first round of experiments on the International Space Station’s second-generation Spaceborne Computer, Hewlett Packard Enterprises and Microsoft executives say they...

Former Momentus CTO reveals competing space logistics venture (Space News)

Debra Werner TransAstronautica, a startup founded by Joel Sercel, the former Momentus chief technology officer, is raising money for a competing space logistics venture. TransAstra’s business...

South Korea’s Satrec Initiative to build constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites (Space News)

Park Si-soo Satrec Initiative, a satellite maker under South Korea’s Hanwha Group, will send a high-resolution imaging satellite called SpaceEye-T into low Earth orbit by...

South Korea touts Artemis Accords as a way to settle international space issues (Space News)

Park Si-soo From the accumulation of space junk in low Earth orbit to questions concerning the ownership of space resources, the 21st century space race...

Redwire opens digital engineering facility aimed at national security space agencies (Space News)

Sandra Erwin Redwire is opening a digital engineering facility where government agencies and aerospace companies can prototype hardware, design space architectures and concepts of operations,...

South Korea to invest $13.6 billion to bolster defenses capabilities in outer space (Space News)

Park Si-soo South Korea will invest 16 trillion won ($13.6 billion) over the next 10 years in bolstering its defense capabilities in outer space. This...

Blue Origin to perform first New Shepard launch under updated license (Space News)

Jeff Foust Blue Origin will conduct its next New Shepard suborbital mission Aug. 25 with a set of research payloads, but not people, on board...