Tag: Space

Starliner test flight likely to slip to 2022 (Jeff Foust, Space News)

A second uncrewed test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, postponed in August because of valve problems, is unlikely to take place before 2022, a...

NASA splits human spaceflight directorate into two organizations (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Jim Free (left) will be the associate administrator leading the new Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, whlie Kathy Lueders runs the Space Operations Mission...

Watchdog expects delays to Space Force’s next missile warning satellites (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 5 mission for the U.S Space Force's Space and Missile Systems...

Gloomy moonscape for rover test (ESA)

A Sun barely peeking over a cratered horizon, casting long shadows across a rocky moonscape: ESA’s Erasmus Innovation Centre was transformed into an analogue of the...

NASA picks landing site for VIPER lunar rover (Jeff Foust, Space News)

NASA has selected a crater near the south pole of the moon as the landing site for a robotic rover to search for water...

Drones are accelerating OneWeb’s antenna tests (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

OneWeb is using drones from Danish startup QuadSat to accelerate ground segment tests as it aims to bring part of its low Earth orbit...

Space Force looking for ‘unity’ in acquisitions despite a medley of agencies (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

The U.S. Space Force has an acquisitions arm called the Space Systems Command. A separate Space Rapid Capabilities Office that procures classified systems reports...

Terran Orbital acquires new satellite development facility (Debra Werner, Space News)

Terran Orbital, the parent company of Tyvak and PredaSAR, has leased a new four-story facility in Irvine, California, to house satellite design, engineering and...

Tomorrow.io orders demo satellites for rain-tracking constellation (Jason Rainbow, Space News)

Meteorological intelligence startup Tomorrow.io says it picked California-based Astro Digital to build the first two of potentially dozens of small satellites equipped with storm-tracking...

Space Force reveals which Army and Navy units are moving to the space branch (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

U.S. Army and Navy units that operate communications satellites next month will be realigned under the U.S. Space Force, chief of space operations Gen....

Space enterprise more unified than ever, says Space Force chief (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The head of the U.S. Space Force said the new service has successfully put the various space organizations in the Department of Defense and...

Space Development Agency approves design for satellites that can track hypersonic weapons (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile...

Roscosmos to deploy GLONASS monitoring stations in five countries (TASS)

The Precision Instrument-Making Systems research and production corporation (part of the state space corporation Roscosmos) plans to place non-request measuring stations of the SM-Glonass...

Russia, Kazakhstan sign agreement on construction of Soyuz-5 launch complex — Roscosmos (TASS)

Roscosmos Center for Operation of ground-based space infrastructure and Basis Construction (Kazakhstan) signed an agreement for construction of a launch complex for the Soyuz-5...

Soundblasting a satellite – time-lapse of testing (ESA)

Verifying that a satellite will resist the sheer noise of the rocket launching it into orbit is a very important test that every mission...

Path set for commercial communications around the Moon (ESA)

ESA confirmed a contract signature yesterday with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to be the main customer for their Lunar Pathfinder satellite launching in...