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- The evolving case for vertical integration as satellites go modular SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 The shift toward standardized, modular satellite platforms that can serve as the foundation for multiple missions is reshaping the role of vertical integration in the industry, manufacturers said Feb. 4 during the SmallS...
- OurSky and PlaneWave Instruments merge to create Observable Space SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 OurSky announced a merger Feb. 4 with telescope manufacturer PlaneWave Instruments to create Observable Space.
- AstroForge Reveals Asteroid Mining Mission Target & Future Launch Partner The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 AstroForge Reveals Asteroid Mining Mission Target & Future Launch Partner
- NASA Tests in Simulated Lunar Gravity to Prep Payloads for Moon NASA · 4 Feb 2025 The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, i...
- ISRO Navigation Satellite Stranded in Transfer Orbit Following Propulsion System Failure The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 ISRO Navigation Satellite Stranded in Transfer Orbit Following Propulsion System Failure
- Mission Space Set To Launch First Sensors For Space Weather Constellation Aboard SpaceX Transporter 13 The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 Mission Space Set To Launch First Sensors For Space Weather Constellation Aboard SpaceX Transporter 13
- Top House Science Committee Democrat asks NASA for information on executive order implementation SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 The top Democrat on the House Science Committee is asking NASA for information on how it is complying with executive orders related to diversity measures.
- SpaceX launches final block 1 WorldView Legion satellites for Maxar Technologies Spaceflight Now · 4 Feb 2025 The mission, dubbed Maxar 3 by SpaceX, was the third launch of Maxar’s WorldView Legion satellites. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A happened at 6:13 p.m. EST (2313 UTC).
- China Prepares Haolong and Qingzhou Spacecrafts For Maiden Flights On Commercial Rockets to Tiangong The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 China Prepares Haolong and Qingzhou Spacecrafts For Maiden Flights On Commercial Rockets to Tiangong
- French space propulsion firm ThrustMe expands U.S. footprint SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 The company specializes in iodine-based propulsion systems for small satellites
- Viasat Secures $3.5 Million US Space Force Contract For Commercial Satellite Services The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 Viasat Secures $3.5 Million US Space Force Contract For Commercial Satellite Services
- Bullseye! NASA · 4 Feb 2025 This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released on Feb. 4, 2025, shows the gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye. A far smaller blue dwarf galaxy went through the Bullseye’s center, leaving...
- Thales Alenia Space to Build Emirates Airlock for Lunar Gateway Station European Spaceflight · 4 Feb 2025 The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre of the United Arab Emirates has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to design and develop the Emirates Crew and Science Airlock Module, the country’s contribution to NASA’s Lunar G...
- Thales Alenia Space Secures $900M Contract For Argonaut Lunar Lander Descent Element The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 Thales Alenia Space Secures $900M Contract For Argonaut Lunar Lander Descent Element
- ESA Awards €367 Million Contract for EnVision Venus Mission Development The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 ESA Awards €367 Million Contract for EnVision Venus Mission Development
- Mission Space to launch first sensors for space-weather constellation SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 Mission Space is preparing to launch a space-weather sensor, a first step in building a constellation.
- NASA Demonstrates Software ‘Brains’ Shared Across Satellite Swarms NASA · 4 Feb 2025 Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This “pep talk” roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms. This technology, called Distributed Spacecraf...
- Europe has the worst imaginable idea to counter SpaceX’s launch dominance Ars Technica · 4 Feb 2025 This plan, if it ever gets off the ground, seems destined to fail.
- Firefly Aerospace Targets 2026 For Global Launch Capability Expansion In Virginia and Sweden The Launch Pad · 4 Feb 2025 Firefly Aerospace Targets 2026 For Global Launch Capability Expansion In Virginia and Sweden
- En Route to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars NASA · 4 Feb 2025 The spacecraft’s star trackers help engineers orient the orbiter throughout its long journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Europa Cl...
- Blue Origin launches New Shepard on lunar gravity suborbital flight SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Feb. 4 on the company’s first attempt to simulate lunar gravity in flight.
- In the Starlight: Anika Isaac’s Mission to Counsel NASA’s Workforce NASA · 4 Feb 2025 An interesting fact about Johnson Space Center’s Anika Isaac, MS, LPC, LMFT, LCDC, CEAP, NCC, is that there are more letters following her name than there are in it. A licensed professional counselor, marriage and family...
- NASA’s Cloud-based Confluence Software Helps Hydrologists Study Rivers on a Global Scale NASA · 4 Feb 2025 Rivers shape ecosystems and economies, yet hydrologists have limited tools to study them. Enter Confluence—a groundbreaking, open-source framework leveraging NASA’s SWOT mission and HLS data to estimate river discharge a...
- ArkEdge Space Raises JPY 8 Billion in Series B Funding to Become Leading Satellite System Integrator —Accelerating Satellite Mass Production and Business Expansion SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 Tokyo, Japan, Feb 4, 2025-ArkEdge Space Inc. (“ArkEdge Space”), a Japanese space startup based in Tokyo that provides comprehensive solutions from planning and design to mass production and operation of […]
- Former Pentagon official Frank Calvelli joins True Anomaly’s board of directors SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 Calvelli recently served as the U.S. Space Force’s top procurement executive
- Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings NASA · 4 Feb 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow” — a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy — shot through its heart. Astron...
- ESA and Finland pave the way towards a supersite for Earth observation ESA · 4 Feb 2025 Today, ESA, the Finnish government and the Finnish Meteorological Institute took the initial steps towards establishing a ‘supersite’ for Earth observation calibration and validation in Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland.
- ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf ESA · 4 Feb 2025 Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitationa...
- Why a missile shield in space makes sense SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 On January 27, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that called for the creation of a missile defense shield protecting the United States that would, among other things, […]
- Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data ESA · 4 Feb 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- China to launch 2 new space station cargo spacecraft on commercial rockets in 2025 SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 HELSINKI — China will launch a pair of low-cost space station resupply spacecraft this year on new commercial launch vehicles, highlighting advances for the country’s space ecosystem. The missions aim […]
- Jörn Spurmann, Rocket Factory Augsburg – Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Jörn Spurmann, Chief Commercial Officer, Rocket Factory Augsburg.
- NASA requests industry proposals for VIPER lunar rover partnership SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency canceled the mission last year.
- Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc ESA · 4 Feb 2025 This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in th...
- Persevering Through Science NASA · 4 Feb 2025 The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover continues to live up to its name, pushing forward in search of ancient Martian secrets. Following a brief period of system verification and remote testing, our operations team is back at...
- Sols 4441-4442: Winter is Coming NASA · 4 Feb 2025 Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 Here in Earth’s northern hemisphere, the days are slowly getting longer, bringing with them the promise of an end to winter. While we are anticipating the return of warmer tempe...
- NASA Pauses Activities of Community-Based Science Groups SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Feb 2025 NASA is pausing the activities and meetings of community-based groups that provide input to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The plan is to lift the suspensions after NASA ensures the groups’
- Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024 SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 Boeing took more than a half-billion dollars in charges on its CST-100 Starliner program in 2024, bringing its cumulative losses on the vehicle to just over $2 billion.
- Launch Roundup: Electron, Soyuz set to fly; New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity NASASpaceflight · 3 Feb 2025 This week’s launch manifest is quite diverse, featuring the launches of four different rockets worldwide.…
- Ontario tables Starlink contract threat as US delays Canada tariffs SpaceNews · 3 Feb 2025 The leaders of Canada’s most populous province are holding off on a threat to scrap a $68 million Starlink contract for remote satellite connectivity this summer, after U.S. President Donald Trump delayed planned tariffs...