Copernic Space welcomes Kevin O’Connell to advisory board
Friday, 22 April 2022 21:44
Copernic Space, the latest company to bring Kevin O’Connell onto its advisory board, is unlike other ventures the former director of the U.S. Office of Space Commerce has joined.
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Japan’s ispace negotiating first commercial moon landing insurance
Friday, 22 April 2022 18:59
Japanese lunar lander developer ispace said April 21 it is negotiating the world’s first insurance coverage for a commercial mission to the moon’s surface.
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Space Force radar that monitors low Earth orbit to feed data directly to cloud platform
Friday, 22 April 2022 18:54
Data from the Space Fence radar that tracks objects in low Earth orbit can now be accessed through the Unified Data Library
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ESA’s satnav summer school open to students
Friday, 22 April 2022 14:44
This year’s ESA/JRC International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems will take place in July, at Kraków in the South of Poland.
Starlink signs first inflight Wi-Fi deal for services later this year
Friday, 22 April 2022 13:44
Jet service provider JSX said April 21 it is set to become the first air carrier to provide Starlink’s satellite broadband services later this year.
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Amid prolonged impacts of Covid, the maritime industry showed positive trends in 2021
Friday, 22 April 2022 12:23An increase in active VSATs by 32% and a booming merchant sector and fishing industry has helped the maritime market maintain a positive position, despite the uncertainty brought about by the pandemic and a slow moving start to new NGO constellation deployments.
Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, 21 April 2022 – Leading space consulting and market intelligence firm Euroconsult has released its annual “Prospects for Maritime Satellite Communications” report, which shows that despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and its associated impacts, 2021 was still a positive year for the global maritime satellite communication market.
Week in images: 18-22 April 2022
Friday, 22 April 2022 12:07
Week in images: 18-22 April 2022
Discover our week through the lens
South Korea “welcomes” U.S. moratorium on anti-satellite missile tests; China skeptical
Friday, 22 April 2022 11:48
South Korea “welcomed” America’s self-imposed ban on direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile tests that create orbital debris.
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House appropriator promises to mark up NASA spending bill on schedule
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:44
The chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA says he expects his committee to develop spending bills “on time” this year but was noncommittal about the level of support NASA will receive.
Chinese reusable rocket startup secures new funding round
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:22
Chinese launch firm Deep Blue Aerospace announced A+ round financing April 19, with funding in the Chinese commercial sector apparently on the rise.
Axiom crew set for return to Earth on Sunday, Crew-4 to launch days later
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:02
The first private astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station is set to return to Earth on Sunday after weather delays and NASA's Crew-4 mission will look to launch on Tuesday.
"The decision [to delay landing] was made based on the best weather for splashdown of the first private astronaut mission to visit the International Space Station and the return trajectory required to b Perseverance captures video of solar eclipse on Mars
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:02
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured dramatic footage of Phobos, Mars' potato-shaped moon, crossing the face of the Sun. These observations can help scientists better understand the moon's orbit and how its gravity pulls on the Martian surface, ultimately shaping the Red Planet's crust and mantle.
Captured with Perseverance's next-generation Mastcam-Z camera on April 2, the 397th Ma Curiosity goes oops Sols 3451-3452
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:02
Not that it matters, but exactly 100 sols ago, on January 7th, we were planning sols 3351 and 3352, and it was this blogger's turn to report on what was happening. Apparently, we were marvelling at the landscape - and dealing with a rock under the foot, well, the wheel.
Tosol, we were again dealing with a rock right under the rover, but this time, we were excited about it as the rover was CGI supports creation of the European satellite constellation UN:IO
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:02
The European Commission has contracted IT service provider CGI as part of a consortium to contribute its expertise in the fields of space and cybersecurity for helping to build the independent European satellite constellation dubbed UN:IO. It is expected to begin operating commercial and institutional communication channels by 2025. ?
The European Union's top priority is a secure, extremel NASA and industry to collaborate on space communications initiative
Friday, 22 April 2022 10:02
NASA selected six American satellite communications (SATCOM) providers on April 20 to begin developing and demonstrating near-Earth space communication services that may support future agency missions.
For more than a year, the agency has been evaluating the feasibility of employing commercial SATCOM networks for near-Earth operations as it works to decommission its near-Earth satellite fl