Webb moved for fuelling
Monday, 06 December 2021 14:00
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The James Webb Space Telescope, configured for flight, was moved from the cleanroom to the payload preparation facility for fuelling at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 11–12 November 2021.
Webb will be loaded with propellants before being mounted on top of the rocket and then encapsulated by the Ariane 5 fairing.
Webb will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. As part of an international collaboration agreement, ESA is providing the telescope’s launch service using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification
South Korea’s Hanwha to expand space business portfolio with rocket development
Monday, 06 December 2021 13:12
Hanwha Aerospace unveiled the plan Dec. 6, saying it recently held a joint meeting with South Korea's space agency for preliminary requirement review on their envisioned rocket.
Phase Four debuts improved thruster
Monday, 06 December 2021 10:49
Satellite electric propulsion company Phase Four has completed testing of a new thruster that it says offers significantly improved performance.
ESA spurs 5G digital connectivity
Monday, 06 December 2021 08:14
Efforts to enable seamless connectivity and reduce the digital divide by using telecommunications satellites to enhance terrestrial 5G services have leapt forward.
Yusaku Maezawa: irreverent billionaire fascinated by space
Monday, 06 December 2021 05:42
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who blasts off for the International Space Station this week, is an irreverent space enthusiast who has made headlines for splashing the cash on modern art.
The 46-year-old tycoon is the founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall and is the country's 30th-richest person, according to business magazine Forbes.
But he is far from the traditional ima Russia to send Japanese tycoon to ISS in return to space tourism
Monday, 06 December 2021 05:42
Russia on Wednesday will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the International Space Station in a move marking Moscow's return to the now booming space tourism business after a decade-long break.
One of Japan's richest men, Maezawa, 46, will blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan accompanied by his assistant Yozo Hirano.
On Sunday morning, their Soyuz spacecraft wi U.S. was not blindsided by Russia’s anti-satellite test, say officials
Sunday, 05 December 2021 10:57
"These advances in capabilities are concerning, they are not a surprise," Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations, said Dec. 4 at the Reagan National Defense Forum
Two new satellites mark further enlargement of Galileo
Sunday, 05 December 2021 04:59
Europe’s largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world’s most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe.
Ben Griffin explains how Oneweb's LEO Constellation will change the IFC Market
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
Ahead of APEX/IFSA EXPO, APEX Media spoke with Oneweb's VP Mobility Ben Griffin to find out the latest about the company's plans to disrupt commercial aviation's in-flight connectivity market with its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology.
"We're very well funded, and that's not just random amounts of money coming from strange places," Griffin explained. "It's from companies creating Exploring the heart of space weather with the Geospace Dynamics Constellation
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
The Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission - or GDC - is a team of satellites that will study Earth's upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet's dynamic and complex interface with the space environment. This boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space is called the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system.
This mission will change our understanding of Space Development Agency Approves L3Harris' Missile-Tracking Satellite Design
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final design review for the Space Development Agency's missile-tracking program. The company will continue with development and integration of four satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 0 under a $193 million firm, fixed-price contract.
L3Harris completed Critical Design Review in November, and the company will proceed through build, integration, tes Eutelsat's Konnect Africa and Vodacom Partner to Bring High-Speed Broadband to Unserved Regions of Tanzania
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
Eutelsat Communications and Vodacom Tanzania PLC have signed a service agreement for packaged services to bring connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania, leveraging Eutelsat's EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput satellite.
Following a successful Proof of Concept trial, Vodacom will commercialize services on the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite under its own brand, building out its service of NASA astronauts complete ISS spacewalk
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
Two NASA astronauts have completed the 13th spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) this year, the agency said, days after the event was postponed over a debris risk.
Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron headed outside the space laboratory on Thursday, replacing a faulty antenna and restoring its capability.
"It was awesome!" Barron said after completing her first spac NASA awards Artemis contract for future SLS boosters
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman of Brigham City, Utah, to build boosters for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support nine SLS flights. Northrop Grumman, the lead booster contractor, has produced booster motors for the first three Artemis missions and is casting the motors for the fourth lunar mission.
This contract Ingenuity heading north into Seitah for Flight 17
Sunday, 05 December 2021 01:06
With Flight 17, Ingenuity continues its journey back to Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E. Butler landing site. Flight 17 is the third flight of this journey and is scheduled to take place no earlier than Sunday, Dec. 5 with the data arriving back on Earth no earlier than later that same day.
Flight 17 is approximately half of Flight 9 in reverse, which was one of the most challenging