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- Terran Orbital, York Space win U.S. military satellite contracts SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 The contracts worth $424 million were awarded by the Space Development Agency for 20 satellites for relay and tactical communications
- Boeing & Lockheed Martin in Talks to Sell ULA to Sierra Space The Launch Pad · 16 Aug 2024 Boeing & Lockheed Martin in Talks to Sell ULA to Sierra Space
- Electronics maker seeks more space growth after CEO retires SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 Jeff Riggs has retired as CEO of Spectrum AMT, a Colorado-based circuit board maker he co-founded 25 years ago with a growing business in the space industry.
- Rescuers at the Ready at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center NASA · 16 Aug 2024 If there’s an emergency at the launch pad during a launch countdown, there’s a special team engineers at Kennedy Space Center teams can call on – the Pad Rescue team. Trained to quickly rescue personnel at the launch pad...
- Rings and Things NASA · 16 Aug 2024 The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
- U.S. Space Command chief expresses support for Army’s space initiatives SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 Gen. Stephen Whiting challenged claims by the Mitchell Institute that the Army's space initiatives encroach on Space Force territory
- SpaceX launches 116 payloads on Falcon 9 rideshare mission, Transporter-11 Spaceflight Now · 16 Aug 2024 SpaceX’s rideshare program has launched more 1,000 smallsats for more than 130 customers. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 11:56 a.m. PDT (2:56 p.m. EDT, 1856 UTC).
- NASA-Funded Research Institute Selects New Class of Space Health Fellows NASA · 16 Aug 2024 The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) announced its selections for the institute’s 2024 postdoctoral fellowship, a space health program intended to launch the careers of a new generati...
- Republican former NASA administrator endorses Harris for president SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 A Republican former NASA administrator is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, for president.
- Moon to Mars Part II: Evolving to Mars Space Scout · 16 Aug 2024 Artemis’ stated goal to “prepare for human missions to Mars” is an ambitious undertaking, with visible consequences on its organization. With Artemis entering flight across its various programs, and hardware which will e...
- Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station NASA · 16 Aug 2024 Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson answer their prerecorded questions aboard the International Space Station. The 20-mi...
- ESA Weather Satellite to Launch Aboard Falcon 9 Today European Spaceflight · 16 Aug 2024 The European Space Agency’s AWS mission will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later today on a mission to study Arctic weather. The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) is intended to be a prototype of a proposed co...
- SNC scaling up its fleet of radio-frequency monitoring satellites SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 The company is transitioning from RF sensing cubesats to larger ESPA-class satellites
- Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View NASA · 16 Aug 2024 The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
- Make Space Great Again SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 President Donald J. Trump transformed American space policy during his first term. He reestablished the National Space Council to coordinate national space strategy. He issued a series of important Space Policy
- Rocket Lab’s Mars-bound twin satellites – Blue and Gold – hit the road ahead of Blue Origin launch Spaceflight Now · 16 Aug 2024 The twin spacecraft, named Blue and Gold, left Rocket Lab’s Long Beach facilities on Thursday to begin the trip to Florida. The EscaPADE mission will launch aboard Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket.
- SpaceX launches Transporter-11 rideshare with 116 payloads NASASpaceflight · 16 Aug 2024 On Friday, Aug. 15, 2024, SpaceX launched the Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). Liftoff occurred at 11:56 AM PT (18:56 UTC), 36 minutes into a 5...
- Long March 4B launches experimental Yaogan-43 satellite group SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 HELSINKI — China successfully launched the first of a new group of Yaogan satellites Friday to test technologies for a low Earth orbit constellation. A Long March 4B rocket lifted
- Arctic Weather Satellite: advancing weather forecasting in a changing climate ESA · 16 Aug 2024 The effects of the climate crisis are felt more acutely in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. The weather in the Arctic is not only severe, but it changes extremely quickly. More frequent data are urgently need...
- Indian solid SSLV rocket launches Earth observation satellite SpaceNews · 16 Aug 2024 HELSINKI — India successfully launched its third SSLV Thursday, placing an Earth observation satellite into orbit and completing the solid rocket’s development process. The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) lifted
- Watch Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 launch live ESA · 16 Aug 2024 ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 missions are ready for lift-off from Vandenburg, California, with a target launch date of 16 August 2024.
- NASA evaluating plan to restructure OSAM-1 satellite servicing mission SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 NASA is assessing a plan developed at the request of Congress to continue a satellite servicing mission but has made no decisions about rescinding earlier plans to cancel it.
- Southern California Student Wins NASA Scholarship NASA · 15 Aug 2024 Sabrina Redifer, a 2024 graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, won a NASA College Scholarship Award. Redifer plans to major this fall in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the Univer...
- AST SpaceMobile starts work on 17 larger direct-to-smartphone satellites SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 AST SpaceMobile has started producing parts for 17 larger direct-to-smartphone satellites after taking advantage of its soaring stock price to raise more capital for the broadband constellation.
- Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award NASA · 15 Aug 2024 NASA’s science efforts aim to empower scientists with the tools to perform research into our planet and universe. To this end, a collaborative effort between NASA and IBM created an AI geospatial foundation model, which...
- Russian nukes in space: Why a Cold War response will only make it worse SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 Policymakers in Washington must not fall prey to the notion that in response to Russia’s threat we ought to “nuke proof” every electronic system on orbit.
- Intuitive Machines Gathers Coalition to Rescue NASA’s VIPER Mission The Launch Pad · 15 Aug 2024 Intuitive Machines Gathers Coalition to Rescue NASA’s VIPER Mission
- Northrop Grumman Layoffs 550 Employees at California Space Facilities The Launch Pad · 15 Aug 2024 Northrop Grumman Layoffs 550 Employees at California Space Facilities
- Apex Introduces GEO Aries, A Geostationary Satellite Bus The Launch Pad · 15 Aug 2024 Apex Introduces GEO Aries, A Geostationary Satellite Bus
- Lockheed Martin to Acquire Terran Orbital in $450 Million Deal The Launch Pad · 15 Aug 2024 Lockheed Martin to Acquire Terran Orbital in $450 Million Deal
- São Francisco’s Colorful Palette NASA · 15 Aug 2024 This Dec. 27, 2023 image of the São Francisco River in southeast Brazil showcases the range of vibrant colors in the area including blues, reds, greens, and yellows. Much of the unvegetated land, such as unplanted fields...
- Facing “financial crisis,” Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades Ars Technica · 15 Aug 2024 "This forces us to build a new economy in severe conditions."
- NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics NASA · 15 Aug 2024 NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to five early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2023. The program will support the advancement of their ideas for new technologies to furt...
- NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 15 Aug 2024 They used data from NASA’s WISE telescope, which later became the NEOWISE mission, to discover the faint, fast-moving object zooming out of the Milky Way.
- NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour NASA · 15 Aug 2024 Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way...
- Student-Led Reusable Rocket Team Prepares to Spin-Off Tech European Spaceflight · 15 Aug 2024 A group of students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland have built and begun testing a vertical takeoff, vertical landing demonstrator called Colibri. Launched in 2018, the Gruyère Spac...
- Maria Demaree, Lockheed Martin – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Maria Demaree, VP & GM National Security Space, Lockheed Martin.
- Mental Well-Being in Space NASA · 15 Aug 2024 Science in Space: August 2024 Life on the International Space Station is quite different from life on the ground. Crew members experience multiple sunrises and sunsets each day, spend their time in a confined space, have...
- SpaceX launches second pair of Maxar WorldView Legion imaging satellites SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 Maxar’s third and fourth WorldView Legion satellites launched into mid-inclination orbit
- Lockheed Martin to acquire Terran Orbital SpaceNews · 15 Aug 2024 Lockheed Martin is buying smallsat manufacturer Terran Orbital, months after the company dropped earlier plans for an acquisition.