Fifty-five years ago today, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered one of the speeches that defined his legacy, a soaring oratory that laid out the vision and rationale for putting a man on the moon. It marked the beginning of an extraordinary era of U.S. leadership in space that spawned […]
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With the closure during Hurricane Harvey of the Johnson Space Center, which employs 10,000 people, in addition to the losses suffered by the Houston Independent School District (HISD), which has 283 schools and 213,000 students, and with a population in excess of six million people and a gross domestic product […]
PARIS — The requirement for higher and higher bandwidth will remain the major driver shaping future satellite infrastructure and services in the next five years, according to Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO of Viasat. Speaking Sept. 12 at the World Satellite Business Week here, Dankberg said that terabit-capable satellites like the […]
PARIS — Virgin Orbit says it will perform 24 missions with its LauncherOne small-satellite booster in 2020 despite pushing intitial test flights into 2018. Dan Hart, president of Virgin Orbit. Credit: Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit, before being spun off from human spaceflight-focused Virgin Galactic in March, had set out to […]
The OneWeb-Airbus joint venture tasked with building 900 satellites for OneWeb plans to keep its first production line in France running to build satellites for other operators. OneWeb Satellites is building the first 10 small satellites for OneWeb’s low-Earth orbit broadband constellation in Toulouse, France, before shifting production of the […]
WASHINGTON — Satellite operator SES has selected Arianespace to launch a fifth set of O3b satellites as well as a large geostationary orbit communications satellite, the companies announced Sept. 12. In one announcement, SES said that a fifth set of four O3b satellites will launch on a Soyuz rocket from […]
PARIS — Blue Origin will likely launch the third iteration of its New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle by year’s end, paving the way for a human-rated version and ironing out the reusability plan for the orbital New Glenn rocket. The company also revealed a large, 7-meter payload fairing for New […]
With the recent launch of its Kestrel Eye electro-optical microsatellite as an Army testbed, Adcole Maryland Aerospace is in the hunt for other related government and commercial business, company President Glen Cameron said. Already, both commercial and government potential customers have sought contracts or shown interest in the microsatellite system […]