Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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Long March 7A rocket deploys two Chinese tech demo satellites Spaceflight Now · 29 Dec 2021 China launched two classified Shiyan satellites Dec. 23 into a geostationary transfer orbit aboard a Long March 7A rocket, one of the country’s newest launch vehicles. The mission took off from China’s Wenchang launch ba...
FAA delays completion of Starship environmental review SpaceNews · 28 Dec 2021 The Federal Aviation Administration says it needs at least two more months to complete an environmental review of SpaceX Starship orbital launches from its Boca Chica, Texas, facility.
SpaceX’s first orbital Starship launch runs into more FAA delays Teslarati · 28 Dec 2021 The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it’s at least two months behind schedule on an environmental review that must be completed...
SpaceX continues to break reuse records and reach new milestones in 2021 NASASpaceflight · 28 Dec 2021 Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the most active year for SpaceX to date. These launches included a number of new reuse records, including flying a booster for the...
Biggest Moments on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover 2021 Year in Review NASA · 28 Dec 2021 A new video looks back on the six-wheeled scientist’s first 10 months on the Red Planet and all that it’s accomplished so far.
Nevada Air Cadets to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA · 28 Dec 2021 Cadets from the Nevada Civil Air Patrol will have an opportunity soon to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
China’s space station maneuvered to avoid Starlink satellites SpaceNews · 28 Dec 2021 China has informed the United Nations that its crewed space station twice maneuvered to avoid potential collisions with SpaceX Starlink satellites earlier this year.
SpaceX to upgrade Starship with 50% more Raptor engines Teslarati · 28 Dec 2021 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that future Starships – or at least certain Starship variants – are being upgraded with 50% more...
High-stakes sunshield deployment begins on Webb telescope Spaceflight Now · 28 Dec 2021 Mission controllers started the risky process Tuesday to unfurl the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield, a five-layer thermal barrier necessary to give the observatory infrared vision into the distant universe.
Virgin Orbit investing in startups as SPAC merger wraps up SpaceNews · 27 Dec 2021 As Virgin Orbit prepares to complete its merger with a SPAC, the launch provider has announced a series of partnerships and investments to diversify its business.
James Webb Space Telescope en route to L2; deployment sequence underway NASASpaceflight · 27 Dec 2021 Following a launch on December 25 atop an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket, the joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is currently traveling toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2), where it is expected to orbit an...
NASA Invites Media to NOAA’s Weather Observing Satellite Launch NASA · 27 Dec 2021 Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-T satellite, the Western Hemisphere’s most advanced weather observing and environmental monitorin...
Arianespace wraps up 2021 with OneWeb launch SpaceNews · 27 Dec 2021 Arianespace completed its last mission of the year Dec. 27 with the launch of 36 satellites for low Earth orbit broadband operator OneWeb.
This may finally be the year we see some new chunky rockets take flight Ars Technica · 27 Dec 2021 Many of these rockets, you may recall, were supposed to fly in 2020.
Soyuz 2.1b successfully launches 36 OneWeb Satellites NASASpaceflight · 27 Dec 2021 Starsem, Arianespace, and Roscosmos have launched a Soyuz 2.1b for OneWeb flight 12. Lift-off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan occurred at 13:10 UTC (08:10 EST) on December 27.
Chinese astronaut pair complete six-hour spacewalk SpaceNews · 26 Dec 2021 Two Shenzhou-13 astronauts embarked on a six-hour extravehicular activity Sunday to install equipment outside China’s Tianhe space station module.
Shenzhou-13 crew conducts second spacewalk of mission NASASpaceflight · 26 Dec 2021 The Shenzhou-13 crew has conducted the second EVA of its mission, with taikonauts Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu exiting the Tianhe core module to conduct a six-hour spacewalk. Meanwhile, Wang Yaping stayed inside the stati...
Webb telescope completes first course correction burn, deploys main antenna Spaceflight Now · 26 Dec 2021 The James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters for the first time late Saturday to line up for course toward an observing post nearly a million miles from Earth, then deployed a high-rate communications antenn...
China launches Ziyuan-1 02E satellite via Chang Zheng 4C NASASpaceflight · 26 Dec 2021 China has deployed a new Earth resources observation satellite Sunday via its Chang Zheng 4C rocket. The Ziyuan-1 02E satellite, along with an amateur radio CubeSat, lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at...
Webb telescope finally leaves Earth in search of light from first galaxies Spaceflight Now · 25 Dec 2021 The James Webb Space Telescope, a NASA-led international collaboration that took nearly 30 years and $10 billion to bring to the launch pad, finally left Earth with a Christmas morning rocket ride from a European spacepo...
Ariane 5 launches NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope SpaceNews · 25 Dec 2021 A space telescope that will peer deeper into the universe than any other is on its way to its destination beyond the moon after a long-anticipated launch Dec. 25.
NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds NASA · 25 Dec 2021 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport.
Europe’s spaceport, flagship launcher ready for historic Webb mission Spaceflight Now · 24 Dec 2021 Teams in French Guiana positioned a European Ariane 5 rocket into its starting blocks Thursday, ready for liftoff Christmas morning with the nearly $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, the most expensive science instr...
NASA, ESA, CSA successfully launch the historic James Webb Space Telescope NASASpaceflight · 24 Dec 2021 It is a mission more than 25 years in the making. The revolutionary JWST (James Webb Space Telescope)—a partnership between NASA, the ESA (European Space Agency), and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency)— has launched atop it...
Russia launches third and final Angara A5 demonstration mission NASASpaceflight · 24 Dec 2021 Russia has launched its third and final demonstration flight of the Angara A5 rocket on Monday, December 27.
Video: Keith Parrish, Webb’s commissioning manager, talks through telescope deployments Spaceflight Now · 24 Dec 2021 Spaceflight Now’s Editor, Stephen Clark, speaks with NASA’s Keith Parrish, the commissioning manager for the Webb Space Telescope. It is his job to make sure the observatory unfolds and extends correctly. He talks us thr...
Webb’s fate hinges on high-risk sunshade, mirror deployments Spaceflight Now · 24 Dec 2021 If you want to see the faint, stretched-out light from the first stars and galaxies that began shining at the end of the cosmic dark ages a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, you’re going to need a big telesco...
NorthStar expanding to Luxembourg after $45 million funding round SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 Canadian startup NorthStar Earth & Space plans to set up European headquarters in Luxembourg, after getting an investment from the country’s government-backed venture capital fund.
ESA moving ahead on new Copernicus missions despite lack of U.K. agreement SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 With a deadline for an agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union on British involvement in, and funding for, Copernicus come and gone, the European Space Agency is pressing ahead on several missions in...
NASA Selects Four University Teams for Aviation Projects NASA · 23 Dec 2021 NASA’s research focus on sustainable aviation will get some big help from teams of university faculty and students recently selected to participate in the agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI).
China launches pair of experimental satellites on Chang Zheng 7A NASASpaceflight · 23 Dec 2021 China launched a pair of satellites called Shiyan-12-01 and Shiyan-12-02 on board a Chang Zheng 7A rocket at 10:12 UTC. The pair of satellites launched to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from the Wenchang Space Laun...
Kepler plots relay network to serve thousands of satellite terminals SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 Kepler Communications plans to use a Spire Global nanosatellite launching late next year to test a terminal it hopes to someday deploy by the thousands to create a mesh network of data-relay satellites.
Video: John Grunsfeld, astronaut and former NASA science chief, talks Webb Spaceflight Now · 23 Dec 2021 Spaceflight Now’s Stephen Clark speaks to astronaut, astronomer and former NASA science head, John Grunsfeld about the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. What big discoveries is he expecting from JWST? Is...
Crypto entrepreneur to go to space on New Shepard SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 A controversial Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur revealed he submitted the high bid for a seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed suborbital launch earlier this year and, after missing that flight, is buying a dedicated Ne...
Long March 7A launches classified Shiyan-12 satellites SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 China launched a new-generation Long March 7A rocket Thursday, successfully sending a pair of Shiyan-12 test satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
NASA Artemis delegation tours SpaceX’s Starship factory and launch pad Teslarati · 23 Dec 2021 Thanks to the failure of Blue Origin’s NASA Human Landing System (HLS) lawsuit, SpaceX and the space agency were finally able to...
JWST launch marks only the start of a risky deployment process SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 While the impending launch of the James Webb Space Telescope has astronomers both excited and nervous, the liftoff marks only the beginning of the riskiest part of the mission.
Webb will take next leap in search for habitable worlds Spaceflight Now · 23 Dec 2021 Astronomers have discovered nearly 5,000 planets orbiting other stars in the last 30 years, and the James Webb Space Telescope will begin scanning a sample of the alien worlds next year to find out which ones might harbo...
Propellant leak forces Sherpa tug off SpaceX rideshare mission SpaceNews · 23 Dec 2021 A Sherpa tug has been removed from an upcoming SpaceX rideshare mission after its propulsion system developed a leak, forcing Spaceflight to find new rides for 10 cubesats.
Webb telescope is a ‘time machine’ for astronomers to see the cosmic dawn Spaceflight Now · 23 Dec 2021 The James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in the coming days, will look back more than 13.5 billion years in time to see the faint infrared light from the first galaxies, revealing a previously unseen era of cosmic...

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