Tag: Space

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...

Air Force begins construction of simulation and wargaming facility for space and lasers (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory is marking the next step in the development of its space-related infrastructure at Kirtland Air Force Base in New...

UK Space Command: Step one for space domain awareness is bringing data together (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The first step in improving the United Kingdom’s space domain awareness is bringing existing data together, said the head of the country’s new Space...

Henry Ford Heads for the High Frontier (Robert Bell, Space News)

The year was 1908 and the automobile was the prestige product of the age.  Designed by brilliant engineers with names like Daimler and Benz,...