Virgin Galactic is scheduled to launch its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle on July 11, according to an announcement on July 1. Richard Branson, founder of the company, will be aboard and travel to space 11 days before Jeff Bezos. The upcoming SpaceShipTwo flight, called Unity 22, will lift off from Spaceport America in New Mexico and […]
Katherine Monson, a former chief executive at KSAT, has joined satellite communications startup Analytical Space Inc. as its chief commercial officer. Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered ASI also hired Jose Velazco as its chief innovation officer. Monson and Velazco assume their roles as the company gears up for the initial deployment of the Fast Pixel Network, a data […]
A team led by Raytheon Technologies will build a prototype of the Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node under the terms of an $8.5 million other transaction authority agreement. TITAN is envisioned as a mobile ground station that can analyze and deliver mission-critical satellite, aerial and terrestrial sensor data to soldiers on the battlefield. Raytheon […]
Northrop Grumman has delivered the bus that will carry the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 spacecraft in 2023. As one of the high-priority Vanguard programs, the NTS-3 mission is aimed at establishing technologies that can reliably mitigate threats to positioning, navigation and timing capabilities, the Air Force said. NTS-3 is also expected to […]
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have published a consensus study report backing NASA’s proposed updates to its space radiation health standard. NASA currently sets different radiation exposure limits for astronauts based on age and gender. NASEM advised that the space agency set a single lifetime limit throughout an astronaut’s career. Astronauts in […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has taken to the Martian skies again. The June 21 flight, which lasted 77.4 seconds, was the eighth overall, three more than the aircraft’s original mission. The flights will continue for a few more months to showcase how Ingenuity can work in conjunction with the Perseverance rover, SpaceNews reported. According to Ken […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking to accelerate the operational timeline of the GOES-T satellite to cover for one of the agency’s malfunctioning advanced geostationary weather satellites. GOES-T, which will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit, will replace GOES-17, which is suffering from overheating problems with a component known as the […]
NASA announced Thursday that it has added four new members to its senior leadership team. Administrator Bill Nelson named Shahra Anderson Lambert, who previously served as director of strategic initiatives for the commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as senior adviser for engagement, NASA said. Lambert served as a regional director […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Iridium Communications a research and development contract worth a potential $30 million to develop a small satellite payload that will be hosted by an unspecified commercial satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit. The satellite constellation system will support navigation systems, guidance and control for global positioning system and GPS-denied precision systems, Iridium said […]
The Space Force will begin absorbing the Navy and the Army’s satellite communications infrastructure and units in October. The two services’ satellite operations will be consolidated under Space Delta 8, which operates at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Eleven of the Navy’s narrowband communications satellites, as well as three satellite control antennas and ground […]
