Tag: Space

Nanoracks and Lockheed Martin partner on commercial space station project (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Nanoracks, its majority owner Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, will collaborate on the development of a commercial space station as others in industry warn...

Time to get serious about commercial satellite servicing (Brian Weeden, ORF)

Commercial satellite servicing—commonly defined as the ability to reposition, refuel, repair, assemble, and remove satellites on or from orbit—is finally becoming reality. Long proposed...

Want innovation in space? Support arms control (Jessica West, ORF)

Arms control and innovation seem like odd bedfellows. But maybe not as much as you’d think. Instead of seeing emerging technology as a challenge...

Return of ASATs and counterspace technologies: A slippery slope to weaponisation? (Alumenda Azácrate Ortega, ORF)

Counterspace technology is not a new phenomenon. In 1958, only one year after the successful launch of the erstwhile Soviet Union’s satellite, Sputnik 1—the first...

What life in space teaches astronauts about solving challenges on planet Earth (Darrell M. West, Brookings)

The future of space is here. NASA is preparing to return to the Moon and is planning to have missions to Mars. Private space...

NASA investigating issue with Lucy solar array (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Engineers are investigating why one of the two solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft may have failed to lock into place when deployed after...

PlanetIQ announces highest-performance radio occultation satellite (Debra Werner, Space News)

PlanetIQ executives are delighted with weather data being acquired by the Golden, Colorado, firm’s first operational satellite launched in June. So delighted, in fact,...

TrustPoint raises $2 million for GPS alternative (Debra Werner, Space News)

TrustPoint Inc., a startup developing a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), has raised $2 million in seed funding from venture capital firm DCVC. With the...

Collision risks in outer space due to mega-constellations (Beyza Unal, ORF)

Mega-constellations are composed of several hundreds of highly networked satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), and they are fundamental in providing uninterrupted communication through...

Challenges to building responsible behaviour in space (Saadia Pekkanen, ORF)

There is a central governance challenge in the space domain, marked today by a new generation of players and technologies: How do we build safe,...

Changing Indian space policy landscape (Ashok G. V., ORF)

The last few days have been quite momentous in the history of the Indian space policy landscape. The appointment of Pawan Kumar Goenka, the...

Crowded outer space: Can a global Space Traffic Management (STM) be a reality? (Moriba Kemessia Jah, ORF)

Near-Earth orbital space is a complex system and a finite resource that is geopolitically and commercially contested, and is in dire need of environmental...

Air Force research lab signs agreement with ‘gas-stations-in-space’ company (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory signed a research agreement with a company pioneering orbital refueling stations for spacecraft, signaling the military’s interest in using...

Space Perspective raises $40 million for stratospheric ballooning system (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Space Perspective, a company developing a stratospheric ballooning system intended to give people views like those from space, has raised $40 million to fund...

The Great Unknowns of Space (John “Jay” Raymond, Peter W. Singer, New America)

Whether it’s UFOs, military weaponry in space, or just too-close-for-comfort encounters between satellites, the frontiers of space can spark imaginations and heighten our fear...

Only around 1 in 5 space industry workers are women (UN News)

To highlight this and other issues surrounding the push for gender equality, Women in Space, has been chosen as the theme for this year’s World Space Week, which began on Monday. The...