WASHINGTON — ABL Space Systems will conduct a launch for Lockheed Martin from a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands, fulfilling an agreement with the British government announced in 2018. Lockheed said Feb. 7 that ABL will perform a launch of its RS1 rocket from the Shetland Space Centre, a […]
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An artist’s illustration shows NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA stowed a solar-powered helicopter in the belly of its Perseverance rover, set to land on Mars on February 18. The helicopter, called Ingenuity, aims to conduct the first-ever controlled flights on another planet. Ingenuity and Perseverance […]
WASHINGTON — Eleven Democratic members of the U.S. Senate have asked President Joe Biden to maintain “robust funding” of NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) program given uncertainties about how the agency will proceed with that effort. The Feb. 3 letter argued that development of the human lunar landers should continue […]
The company operates in the United States from Los Angeles but wants “to be closer to U.S. government organizations driving the adoption of laser communications.” WASHINGTON — Mynaric, a Germany-based manufacturer of optical satellite terminals, announced Feb. 2 it is expanding its footprint in the United States and opening an […]
The U.S. Space Force wants an open platform to process and distribute data from missile-warning satellites. WASHINGTON — During a deadly wildfire season that ravaged California in 2018, the U.S. Forest Service used data from the Air Force’s overhead missile-warning satellites to help spot new fires and flareups. Although the […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Albedo, the latest space company to join the well-known Y Combinator startup accelerator, plans to establish a satellite constellation offering Earth imagery with a resolution of 10 centimeters per pixel. That’s the same resolution that caused a stir when former President Trump tweeted images of a heavily […]
Here’s what you need to know: In a fiery demonstration of power, the four engines of NASA’s next mighty moon rocket fired in synchrony for the first time on Saturday and, by design, went nowhere. The test started smoothly, with white billowing clouds shooting out of the test stand at […]
The uncomfortable truth now facing the space community, in the days after the horrific events at the Capitol Jan. 6, is that some of the most prominent Republican supporters of space in Congress are on the wrong side of history. The U.S. Capitol is seen in this Maxar Technologies satellite […]