Next-Gen relay ground stations to transform Pacific's Missile-Warning System
Wednesday, 07 June 2023 10:33
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced a major step towards upgrading the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center's (NIWC Pacific) ground station relay in Asia. After a successful preliminary design review (PDR) of the Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A), the company is set to connect both legacy and next-generation satellites with end users, marking an important milestone in the transformation Space investment rebounding, but more selectively
Wednesday, 07 June 2023 09:09
After a recent downturn, there are signs of a rebound in space investment, but analysts and investors see a new focus on smaller, more selective rounds.
Apogeo Space orders second space tug for connectivity constellation
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 21:02
Apogeo Space, an Italian venture with plans for nearly 100 tiny satellites for connecting remote monitoring devices, said June 5 it had signed a deal to deploy nine picosatellites next year with an orbital transfer vehicle from Momentus.
Space Force opens new office to foster ties with private sector
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 18:30
The Space Systems Command on June 6 opened a new office and conference center dedicated for doing business with the commercial space industry.
OneWeb targets maritime market with expanded satellite coverage
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 17:43
TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb launched a free trial offer for maritime customers June 6 after bringing its low Earth orbit broadband network online over a larger swathe of the northern hemisphere.
Rivada seeks Ex-Im financing for satellite constellation
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 15:51
Rivada Space Networks is hoping to secure support from the U.S. Ex-Im Bank to finance a multibillion-dollar satellite constellation whose future also depends on an impending decision by international regulators.
NASA-JPL Psyche launch on track with 'outstanding' progress, review board confirms
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 15:46
Steps taken by NASA, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding, according to an independently appointed review board. NASA and JPL convened the board last summer after the Psyche mission team requested to delay the spacecraft's August 2022 launch to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.
Blue Origin within a “few weeks” of resuming New Shepard flights
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 10:55
Blue Origin expects to be ready to resume launches of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in the next few weeks as it completes its recovery from an in-flight anomaly nine months ago.
SpaceDaily.com set to scrap all Network Advertising
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 10:54
Digital advertising is changing course and SpaceDaily.com, with its 25 high-tech websites including SpaceWar.com, SolarDaily.com, GPSDaily.com, and RoboDaily.com, is onboard with this change. Simon Mansfield, publisher of Space Media Network says the major ad networks are a broken business model due to their disregard for demographic specifics, leading to questionable ad relevance, and site perf NASA Psyche mission back on track for October launch
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 07:00
An independent review has concluded NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is back on track for a launch this October after software problems, exacerbated by institutional issues at JPL, delayed its launch last year.
Terran Orbital developed CAPSTONE lunar probe completes primary mission
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 04:53
Terran Orbital Corporation, a premier player in the satellite-based solutions market, reported the successful accomplishment of the CAPSTONE's primary mission - navigating to and within the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) and performing the initial successful test of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) alongside the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). As a bonus, CAPSTONE a Slippery Science: Sols 3851-3852
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 04:53
There's a special sort of hopeful-nervousness I feel on a weekend with a challenging drive. It's how I felt this last weekend, waiting for our rover to try and execute the 11 meter drive that was supposed to get us off a large rock precluding any arm activities over the weekend. Well, we did get off the rock (yay!) but our wheels still slipped in the surrounding sand and ended the drive early in China's main rocket engine for lunar crewed missions sets record
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 04:53
In recent developments from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the primary rocket engine designed for future manned lunar missions has undergone its sixth trial run. This round of testing brings the cumulative operation time of the 130-tonne class liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine to an impressive 3,300 seconds, establishing a new record for China.
This achievement Webb Telescope reveals early universe crackled with bursts of star formation
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 04:53
Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the largest programs in Webb's first year of science is the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, which will devote about 32 days of telescope time to uncover and characterize faint, distant ga