WASHINGTON — Spire is wading deeper into the ship-tracking business, challenging established competitors operating fleets of much bigger satellites. The startup has come a long way since the crowdfunded launch of its first cubesat four years ago. Today, Spire’s constellation numbers 40 cubesats — with more on the way. As […]
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Looks promising for lifeESO/N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org/PA Wire By New Scientist staff and Press Association A few of the planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1, which is 40 light years away, have shown another sign they might be right for life: water. A team of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have […]
LOS ANGELES — An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) failed to place a navigation satellite into its planned orbit Aug. 31 when the rocket’s payload fairing failed to deploy. The PSLV, flying a mission designated PSLV-C39, lifted off on schedule at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the Satish Dhawan Space […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration has identified representatives of the various government agencies who will serve on the National Space Council, which is likely to hold its first meeting “very, very shortly,” Greg Autry, the administration’s former NASA liaison, said Aug. 30. The National Space Council led by U.S. […]
WASHINGTON — Ground-based observations of PT Telkom’s 18-year old Telkom-1 satellite show a large cloud of debris generated the night the satellite lost contact with customers across Indonesia. ExoAnalytic Solutions, a commercial space-situational-awareness company that employs a network of telescopes to track satellites and other orbital objects, recorded the event […]
Strange light from another starNASA/CXC/M.Weiss By Rebecca Boyle A 25-year hunt for a bright spot in the sky first seen almost six centuries ago has turned up a nova – and answered a long-standing question about this unique type of exploding star. We now have a better idea of what […]
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Strategic and Missile Defense Systems will not protest the U.S. Air Force’s decision to move ahead with teams led by Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The Air Force on Aug. 21 awarded […]
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) carried out a successful captive carry test Aug. 30 of its Dream Chaser vehicle, a key step towards a glide flight of the lifting body spacecraft later this year. The Dream Chaser engineering test article, slung underneath a civilian variant […]