WASHINGTON – With former U.S. Air Force officials demanding more time for the service to prove it is on track with space development, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) continued to argue Sept. 7 the time is now to create a Space Corps, or something akin to it. The Air Force […]
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Blast from the pastALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty By Ken Croswell A small galaxy in the constellation Lynx that only recently started making stars has the lowest level of oxygen ever seen in a star-forming galaxy. That makes it the best place yet to probe the chemical elements cooked up by […]
WASHINGTON — Iridium Communications, in the first of what the company signaled could be many similar partnerships with new smallsat operators, has announced a collaborative agreement with a startup to expand its offerings in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market. Iridium signed a memorandum of understanding Sept. 7 with […]
WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing to release a solicitation for the commercial transportation of payloads to the lunar surface, the latest step in the agency’s efforts to help promote the development of commercial lunar landers. In testimony Sept. 7 at a House space subcommittee hearing on private lunar exploration, Jason […]
The recent failure of PT Telkom’s 18-year-old Telkom-1 satellite highlighted the risk associated with prolonged operations of aging satellites. Announced as a pointing anomaly on August 26, the incident may indeed be much more serious than initially thought. As video evidence collected by ExoAnalytic Solutions suggest, the satellite is seemingly […]
WASHINGTON — An EchoStar satellite that stopped obeying commands this summer has since been boosted into a graveyard orbit 350 kilometers above the geostationary belt, EchoStar said Sept. 6. EchoStar-3 undergoing testing prior to launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin. EchoStar-3, a 20-year-old television broadcast satellite from Lockheed Martin, stopped responding to […]
WASHINGTON — With Hurricane Irma looming off the Florida coast, SpaceX beat unfavorable weather odds Thursday morning to send the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B reusable spaceplane back into orbit for its fifth classified mission. A Falcon 9 carrying the Boeing-built X-37B hidden inside its protective shroud lifted off a 10:00 […]
WASHINGTON — NASA is continuing to examine various, potentially less expensive options for a mission to land on Jupiter’s moon Europa even after completing a recent review, postponing a call for instruments for the spacecraft. At a meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Sept. 6 in La Jolla, […]