Boeing eyes investment candidates at Satellite 2022
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 12:32
Boeing executives are meeting with startups at the Satellite 2022 conference with an eye toward investment and collaboration.
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Universal connectivity requires extensive collaboration
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 12:03
Within a decade, satellite mobility providers expect to offer customers a seamless transitions between terrestrial and satellite networks.
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PSN orders Indonesia-focused satellite from Boeing for 2023 launch
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 11:34
Indonesia’s Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) said March 23 it has ordered a high-throughput satellite from Boeing to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2023.
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Australia wants a space industry. So why won't we pay for the basic research to drive it?
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 11:22
In the past few years, Australia has formed its own space agency and launched a defense "space command". Billions of dollars for defense, and hundreds of millions for civilian space, have been allocated from the public purse to develop capability in this growing sector.
This funding covers the Moon-to-Mars Program, the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center, the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, opportunities in defense, various state-funded projects such as SA-SAT, and more.
This level of investment is unquestionably a good thing. But the great majority of it supports applied research and engineering, and commercialization of outcomes. None of the new funding goes to basic research.
In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, India, South Korea, China, Russia, and United Arab Emirates—to name a few—basic research in space and planetary science, and science missions, are key elements in strategies to grow their sectors. In Australia, this kind of fundamental work only gets around A$2 million a year. It hasn't budged in a decade.
Why basic research is important
Ursa Space raises $16 million in Series C round
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 11:15
Ursa Space, a geospatial and analytics company, raised $16 million in a Series C round led by Dorilton Ventures.
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Rocket Lab to Launch Three Demonstration Satellites for E-Space
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch three demonstration satellites for E-Space, to validate the systems and technology for its satellite system. The satellites are scheduled to fly as part of a rideshare mission on Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle from Launch Complex 1 Pad A on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula expected in the second quarter of 2022.
E-Space aims to reduce the launch Mini robots practise grasping space debris
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
A challenging feat for a little robot: Honey the Astrobee must grasp and transport Bumble the Astrobee. To pull it off, Honey needs to understand Bumble's trajectory, position itself correctly and avoid a collision at all costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) helps the cube-shaped robot to accurately assess the situation. The experiment is part of the TumbleDock/ROAM project, which the German Aero Lettuce could protect astronauts' bones on Mars trip
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights. Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering have developed a transgenic, or genetically modified, lettuce producing a drug to protect against bone density loss in microgravity. The work will be presented March 22 at the Spring meeting of the Ameri Spaceflight Inc and Astrocast Extend Launch Contract
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced an extended multi-launch agreement (MLA) with long-time customer, Internet of Things (IoT) constellation developer, Astrocast. This agreement will add two missions to accommodate Astrocast's fast-growing IoT constellation which helps track assets in some of the world's most remote regions.
In February of 2020, Ast SES to Accelerate Access to C-Band Spectrum to support rapid deployment of 5G
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announced an agreement with Verizon Communications to expand the US-based mobile carrier's access to a portion of the C-band (3700-3800 MHz) in important regions across the US earlier than the relocation deadlines set out in the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) C-Band Report and Order.
SES has already completed its Phas Russia hypersonic missile 'not a game changer' in Ukraine: US
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Russia's claim it used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine was a way to reclaim war momentum, but the next-generation weaponry has not proved to be a "game changer," the Pentagon's chief said Sunday.
Moscow has said it has fired two hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, and while US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would not "confirm or dispute" whether Russia used such weapons, he warned that President Australia launches Space Command to counter China's ambitions
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Australia's government on Tuesday launched "Space Command", a new defence agency with echoes of the United States' Space Force that has been tasked with securing the country's place in an "already contested" cosmos.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the new defence arm would be modest to start with, though he gave no detailed staffing or budget figures.
In a speech to the Australian Air Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 22nd flight
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 22nd flight over the weekend, the space agency announced.
"The trip lasted 101.4 seconds and Ingenuity got up to 33 feet in the air," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a tweet Monday. "The team is planning another flight perhaps as early as later this week."
During its first 21 flights, Ingenuity flew a total of 15,247 feet an Drilling into Mars with Lasers
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars' regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars' surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange tones reflect the iron-bearing minerals that have rusted under an oxidizing atmosphere while soft greys characterize the un-rusted parent rock.
However, over the past year we have seen prominent patches of purple peppered atop the rocks. The patch Sol 3421: Close Encounter with a "Gator"
Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:38
Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some "gator-back terrain" - some evenly spaced ridges with a blocky expression, as seen in the above Navcam image. Today's one sol plan is focused on a close encounter with one of these ridges through contact science and remote sensing.
The plans starts