Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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China, Russia reveal roadmap for international moon base SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2021 Russia and China unveiled a roadmap for a joint International Lunar Research Station Wednesday to guide collaboration and development of the project.
ESA/NASA astronauts complete scaled-back spacewalk to install new solar array on ISS NASASpaceflight · 16 Jun 2021 Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) to attempt to install the first of six new Boeing-built solar arrays — part of a program to increase the station’s electrical power generation capacit...
Phase Four announces new electric thrusters, subscription program SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2021 Phase Four announced June 16 two new electric propulsion systems that offer performance and other improvements, along with a subscription service that offers those thrusters to customers at a discount.
Brazil joins Artemis Accords SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2021 Brazil became the 12th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, the U.S.-led effort to establish norms of behavior for space exploration, June 15.
NASA bolts Space Launch System core stage to solid rocket boosters Spaceflight Now · 16 Jun 2021 The core stage for NASA’s first Space Launch System, the heavy-lift rocket designed to carry astronauts back to the moon, has been installed between two solid-fueled boosters on a mobile launch platform at the Kennedy Sp...
SpaceX sends Starship heat shield “bakery” to Boca Chica Teslarati · 16 Jun 2021 At the same time as SpaceX is assembling hardware and manufacturing dozens of Raptor engines for Starship’s inaugural orbital test flight, it’s...
NASA asteroid hunter mission moves into next phase of development SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2021 NASA has moved a space telescope designed to look for near Earth asteroids into the next phase of development, a move that, when combined with the agency’s budget proposal, gives advocates of the mission renewed optimism...
LeoLabs to expand radar network to Europe SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2021 LeoLabs plans to expand its global network of space-tracking radars to the Azores archipelago.
NASA's Ingenuity Mission Honored by the Space Foundation NASA · 15 Jun 2021 The mission picked up the 2021 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration for its history-making achievements.
La NASA lanza la misión Equity y solicita comentarios del público para ampliar el acceso NASA · 15 Jun 2021 La NASA lanza la Misión Equity (equidad, en español), un esfuerzo integral para evaluar la expansión y modificación de programas, compras de suministros, becas, y políticas de la agencia y examinar qué obstáculos y desaf...
NASA Launches Mission Equity, Seeks Public Input to Broaden Access NASA · 15 Jun 2021 NASA is launching Mission Equity, a comprehensive effort to assess expanding and modifying agency programs, procurements, grants, and policies, and examine what potential barriers and challenges exist for communities tha...
SpaceX teases progress towards Starship’s orbital launch debut Teslarati · 15 Jun 2021 A recorded address from SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell to a graduating class of college seniors unexpectedly teased progress building the...
Upcoming SpaceX mission a reusability milestone for national security launch SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 The scheduled June 17 SpaceX launch of a GPS 3 satellite will be the first national security space mission to use a refurbished Falcon 9 booster.
NASA SLS core/booster mate sets the stage for Artemis 1 pre-launch checkout NASASpaceflight · 15 Jun 2021 The integrated operations team of NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime launch processing contractor Jacobs completed mating the SLS Core Stage for Artemis 1 with its boosters on June 13, another in a series...
4iG to buy majority of Spacecom in a boost for Hungary’s first commercial satellite SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 Hungarian IT and communications company 4iG aims to buy 51% of Israeli satellite operator Spacecom to jump-start its international space ambitions.
Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur 1 rocket launches three classified NRO payloads SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 launched three National Reconnaissance Office payloads on June 15 at 9:35 a.m. Eastern from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
NRO satellites launched by Minotaur rocket with surplus missile parts Spaceflight Now · 15 Jun 2021 Three classified small satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office fired into orbit from the Eastern Shore of Virginia Tuesday, riding a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 booster with a surplus military missile first sta...
Launcher to develop orbital transfer vehicle SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 Small launch vehicle company Launcher announced June 15 that it is also working on an orbital transfer vehicle for small satellites that it plans to use on both its own rocket as well as SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
SkyWatch raises $17.2 million in Series B funding round SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 SkyWatch Space Applications raised 20.9 million Canadian dollars ($17.2 ) in a Series B funding round, less than 17 months after welcoming investors to its Series A round.
SpaceX fires up Falcon 9 for first flight-proven ‘national security’ launch Teslarati · 15 Jun 2021 On June 12th, SpaceX successfully fired up a once-flown Falcon 9 booster in the lead-up to the company’s fourth launch of an...
Nelson asks Senate appropriators for more HLS funding SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2021 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson asked Senate appropriators to provide additional funding so NASA can support a second lunar lander developer, warning that the agency needed to stay ahead of a “very aggressive” Chinese spa...
Northrop Grumman launches second classified US government mission in two days with NROL-111 NASASpaceflight · 14 Jun 2021 Northrop Grumman launched three national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on the NROL-111 mission. The company used their solid propellant Minotaur I rocket to place the payloads into a low...
Minotaur rocket set to launch top secret satellites from Virginia Spaceflight Now · 14 Jun 2021 A Minotaur 1 rocket powered by a surplus Cold War-era missile stage more than 54 years old is poised to blast off from the Eastern Shore of Virginia Tuesday morning, heading to orbit with three top secret spacecraft for...
SpaceX drone ship to ride transport vessel through the Panama Canal Teslarati · 14 Jun 2021 After a quick jaunt from Port Canaveral to the Bahamas, SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) has been...
Hanwha, KAI and LIG Nex1 to lead South Korea’s private-sector-driven satellite development SpaceNews · 14 Jun 2021 South Korea has taken yet another step toward having a domestic satellite industry that is driven by the private sector.
Titan impact craters reveal connections to planetary weather, set the stage for Dragonfly NASASpaceflight · 14 Jun 2021 Titan, the atmosphere-shrouded moon of Saturn, has captivated scientists’ attention since its formal discovery on 25 March 1655. While in-situ observations of the moon ended in September 2017 when the Cassini spacecraft...
NASA soliciting proposals for two private astronaut missions SpaceNews · 14 Jun 2021 NASA announced June 11 that it is requesting proposals for two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station that would fly between the fall of 2022 and the end of 2023.
SpaceX Starship launch tower grows to more than half its full height Teslarati · 14 Jun 2021 SpaceX has installed another prefabricated segment of a new Starship ‘launch tower,’ raising the skyscraper-sized framework to more than half its full...
Photos: Minotaur 1 rocket stands on launch pad in Virginia Spaceflight Now · 14 Jun 2021 Clad in a yellow thermal blanket that will peel away at liftoff, a 69-foot-tall Minotaur 1 rocket is standing on a launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, ready to deliver three small National Reconnaissance Office space...
ESA selects radar probe to join armada of Venus missions Spaceflight Now · 13 Jun 2021 A week after NASA selected two robotic missions for launch to Venus in the late 2020s, the European Space Agency has announced its own orbiter will launch to Venus as soon as 2031 with two radars and three spectrometer i...
China launches four satellites on Long March 2D rocket Spaceflight Now · 13 Jun 2021 China launched four small satellites June 10 on a Long March 2D rocket, beginning Earth observation, asteroid monitoring, and technology demonstration missions.
Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket launches U.S. Space Force mission SpaceNews · 13 Jun 2021 A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched the U.S. Space Force Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission June 13 at 1:11 a.m. Pacific from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
New Virginia spaceport head seeks to increase launch activity SpaceNews · 13 Jun 2021 The new head of Virginia’s commercial spaceport on Wallops Island says he wants to increase launch activity at the site, while acknowledging that there are limits as to how big it can grow.
Pegasus rocket successful in responsive launch demonstration Spaceflight Now · 13 Jun 2021 A Northrop Grumman Pegasus rocket dropped from the belly of a carrier jet over the Pacific Ocean early Sunday and streaked into orbit with a small U.S. military space surveillance satellite named Odyssey, demonstrating a...
Hush-hush military satellite ready to ride Pegasus rocket into orbit Spaceflight Now · 13 Jun 2021 A small U.S. military satellite named Odyssey, designed and built in less than a year by a secretive new Space Force special projects unit, is set to launch early Sunday from an aircraft off the coast of California aboar...
Pegasus XL rocket successfully launches Tactically Responsive Launch demo for Space Force NASASpaceflight · 13 Jun 2021 Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket made a low-profile launch for the US Space Force Sunday, in a mission designed to demonstrate the ability to call up and conduct a launch at short notice. The launch occu...
Astra CEO Chris Kemp previews Rocket 4.0, daily launches, and a smarter planet NASASpaceflight · 12 Jun 2021 In December 2020, Astra launched Rocket 3.2 to space. The successor, Rocket 3.3, will make Astra’s first flight with a payload on board as early as this summer. And by the end of the year, the Rocket 3 series is planned...
Blue Origin auctions New Shepard seat for $28 million SpaceNews · 12 Jun 2021 A seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle sold for $XX million at an auction June 12.
$28 million bid wins auction to join Bezos on suborbital spaceflight Spaceflight Now · 12 Jun 2021 An unidentified enthusiast bid an astronomical $28 million Saturday to win an on-line auction for a seat aboard a New Shepard spacecraft and a chance to make history next month, joining rocket owner and Amazon-founder Je...
EGS starts Artemis 1 SLS Core Stage lift NASASpaceflight · 11 Jun 2021 After a month of thermal protection system foam repairs and other preparations, workers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime test operations and support contractor Jacobs at the Kennedy Space Center in...

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