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- Space Force, Space Command seek over $2 billion for unfunded programs to counter anti-satellite threats SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 The Space Force submitted $1.1 billion and Space Command $1.2 billion in their “unfunded requirements” lists for fiscal year 2025
- Launch Roundup: Delta IV Heavy swan song, Falcon 9 and Soyuz launches on tap for last week of March NASASpaceflight · 25 Mar 2024 A trio of Falcon 9 Starlink launches, a Falcon 9 non-Starlink launch involving an Eutelsat communications satellite, a Chinese launch, and a Russian Soyuz launch with a Resurs Earth observation satellite are scheduled fo...
- Apex commissions first payload on inaugural mission SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 Several companies that launched their first spacecraft on a rideshare mission earlier this month are reporting varying degrees of success, from full operations to an early end of testing.
- Defense, military, intelligence agencies, all have a hand in U.S. space acquisitions SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 The Aerospace Industries Association released a new infographic highlighting 15 main organizations developing and procuring technologies for national security space
- UK Space Agency moving HQ to Harwell space cluster SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 The U.K.’s space agency plans to open new headquarters in June at the Harwell Science Campus space cluster in England to strengthen ties with the commercial industry.
- Aerospace Corp. moves headquarters to D.C., cites need for proximity to decision makers SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 The new corporate headquarters is now in Chantilly, Virginia
- Avio CEO Received €460K in Bonuses and Incentives for 2023 European Spaceflight · 25 Mar 2024 Italian rocket maker Avio has revealed that its CEO Giulio Ranzo received €459,800 in bonuses and other incentives for 2023. The CEO's total package...
- Five Years to Apophis; Can a New Mission be Ready? Space Scout · 25 Mar 2024 Apophis is an asteroid that needs little introduction. Some asteroids may be familiar even to laypersons, such as Bennu, Ryugu, and Didymos; these asteroids have been visited by spacecraft relatively recently and are wel...
- Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life Ars Technica · 25 Mar 2024 Seeing a solar eclipse is just about the easiest thing one can do in one's life.
- MSR highlights challenges of NASA flagship missions SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 The struggles NASA is facing with Mars Sample Return (MSR) are part of a longer-running challenge the agency faces with science missions that go sometimes deliberately a step too far, agency officials and adviser say.
- China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite enters lunar orbit SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 China’s Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite entered lunar orbit March 24, paving the way for a lunar far side sample return mission.
- France Expected to Commit €400M to Support Four Launch Startups European Spaceflight · 25 Mar 2024 This week, the French government is expected to announce that it will commit to purchasing the first flights aboard the rockets of four of...
- Accelerating the ‘‘Data Management to Decision Chain’’ in Military Space Operations SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2024 INTRODUCTION Modernizing U.S. military space operations is a critical national endeavor that requires a comprehensive and integrated approach to meet the challenges of an increasingly congested and contested space enviro...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy March 24-30, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Mar 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of March 24-30, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess
- New study finds that DART changed both orbit and shape of Dimorphos asteroid NASASpaceflight · 24 Mar 2024 On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the side of the 170-meter-wide asteroid Dimorphos to test future asteroid deflection tactics in the event an asteroid was threaten...
- Antenna work delays NISAR launch SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2024 Modifications to a large deployable antenna on a joint U.S.-Indian radar spacecraft will delay its launch, likely to the second half of the year.
- Astronomers and megaconstellations learn to get along SpaceNews · 23 Mar 2024 In the four years since skywatchers cried foul over Starlink satellites mucking up the night sky , the astronomy community has collaborated with SpaceX and other companies on ways to mitigate the impact of megaconstellat...
- Private satellite operators make case for helping military track ground targets SpaceNews · 23 Mar 2024 As the U.S. military looks to replace spy planes, companies tout commercial constellations for battlefield awareness
- Biden Signs Final FY2024 Appropriations Package SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Mar 2024 Six months into FY2024, Congress finally finished work on FY2024 appropriations early this morning. President Biden quickly signed the bill into law. With the FY2025 request already pending before Congress,
- Soyuz launches to station after scrub SpaceNews · 23 Mar 2024 A Soyuz spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station March 23, two days after a rare last-minute launch scrub.
- Dragonfly Sets Sights on Titan Space Scout · 23 Mar 2024 The NASA Dragonfly mission, a groundbreaking endeavor aiming to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, is making significant progress towards launch in 2028. Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory is moving forward with the des...
- Soyuz MS-25 Lifts Off on Second Try SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Mar 2024 Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft lifted off on time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this morning, two days after the first attempt aborted at T-20 seconds. The delay means the three crew
- Starliner Crew Test Flight Now Targeted for May 1 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Mar 2024 NASA and Boeing officials said today they are targeting May 1 for the launch of the Crew Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner commercial crew spacecraft. If successful, the long-awaited flight
- AT&T underlines support for realizing direct-to-smartphone satellite service SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2024 AT&T is prepared to provide more funds to help get AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-smartphone constellation plans off the ground.
- It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight Ars Technica · 22 Mar 2024 "This milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of supersonic travel."
- Following IFT-3 milestones, SpaceX prepares for fourth Starship flight NASASpaceflight · 22 Mar 2024 SpaceX is preparing to follow up its third flight of Starship – one that achieved another leap forward with the world’s largest rocket in history – with the IFT-4 mission. Potentially as early as May, the fourth flight i...
- NASA and Boeing prepare for Starliner crewed test flight in May SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2024 NASA and Boeing say they are working towards the first crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in early May, a final milestone before the vehicle is cleared for regular flights to the International Space Statio...
- China’s military is taking a strategic approach to on-orbit refueling SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2024 The People’s Liberation Army is working comprehensively on the technology and training tools for on-orbit satellite refueling for both peacetime and wartime scenarios.
- Intuitive Machines on firmer footing after lunar landing SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2024 Intuitive Machines says it is on firmer financial ground after its first lunar landing as the company works on its next mission and pursues other contracts.
- Dawn Aerospace Further Expands Its European Presence European Spaceflight · 22 Mar 2024 Space transportation company Dawn Aerospace has expanded its European headquarters moving into a new 1,700 square metre building to keep up with the growth...
- Mars Sample Return Dominates House Hearing on NASA Science SpacePolicyOnline.com · 22 Mar 2024 The fate of NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission dominated today’s hearing before a House Science, Space, and Technology subcommittee on NASA’s science program. While committee members were supportive of the
- Cargo Dragon launches to space station hours after Soyuz scrub SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2024 A cargo spacecraft launched towards the International Space Station March 21, hours after a rare last-minute abort of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launch to the station.
- Space Force Gets Boost in Final FY2024 Appropriations, Though Less Than Requested SpacePolicyOnline.com · 21 Mar 2024 Congress and the White House have finally agreed on funding for the last set of FY2024 appropriations bills, which includes DOD. The U.S. Space Force did not get all of
- Subsea internet cable issues lift Rivada Space Networks SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2024 Soaring demand for backup connectivity after subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea is helping push Rivada Space Networks closer to fully financing its $2.4 billion constellation plans, according to CEO Declan Ganley.
- Lawmakers cut $1 billion from Space Force’s 2024 budget request SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2024 The compromise bill gives a big boost to the Defense Innovation Unit
- U.S. military to boost surveillance assets in orbit SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2024 Space Command’s Gen. Whiting says there is a growing need for “space domain awareness”
- DoD innovation unit to assess Firefly vehicle for missions beyond Earth orbit SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2024 The study contract would lay the groundwork for up to two demonstration missions to deliver payloads in cislunar space aboard Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft
- SpaceX’s 30th resupply mission uses new access tower at SLC-40 for the first time NASASpaceflight · 21 Mar 2024 SpaceX has debuted a new capability on their 30th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. For the first time, a Dragon 2 capsule lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)...
- Investing in Space: What to make of SpaceX selling satellite lasers CNBC · 21 Mar 2024 Another year, another SpaceX market expansion.
- Hanwha Phasor aims to release debut multi-orbit terminal this summer SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2024 U.K.-based Hanwha Phasor plans to release its first flat panel antenna this summer to join a wave of multi-orbit broadband terminals coming to the market in 2024.