SIREN appears to share similar objectives with the National Security Space Architecture launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA), except the AFRL initiative is limited to potential demonstrations and experiments.
The air navigation service provider of Hong Kong will introduce satellite-based surveillance of aircraft in its flight information region beginning early next year, data provider Aireon announced Sept. 9.
NASA is turning to its Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers to bid on the delivery of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to a nonpolar region of the Moon in 2022.
While NASA strives through the Artemis Accords to promote peaceful efforts to explore the Moon, the Vienna-based Moon Village Association is assessing how to achieve a similar outcome through its Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity.
The launch of the spacecraft on the 14th mission of the Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China adds to the country’s growing portfolio of space capabilities.
The Electron rocket’s kick stage that dispatched a small satellite into orbit for on Aug. 31 has become a free-flying demonstration of Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite platform, the company disclosed Sept. 3.
The launch was shared among 21 customers. Applications for the spacecraft range from Earth observation to telecommunications to science, technology and education.
SpaceX sent a batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on Sept. 3 as the company looks toward public beta rollout of high-speed internet service this year.
The latest version of the Northrop Grumman solid rocket motor assigned to NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket roared to life Sept. 2 for a full-duration, 2-min. ground test firing at company facilities in Promontory, Utah.
Three Mars mission launches in July kicked off a promising and challenging decade for the exploration of the red planet, one potentially setting the stage for a global human exploration campaign in the 2030s.
The U.S. Air Force wants Congress to create a “global fight” account in the budget to pay for efforts like International Space Pitch Day in which the U.S. and UK intend to invest $1 million for cutting-edge space innovations.
The duo won firm-fixed price contracts for the Tranche 0 Transport Layer, which consists of 20 satellites that will feed into the U.S.’s missile warning system.
The Airbus Perlan Mission II stratospheric glider project plans to dramatically expand its role in atmospheric and climate research by incorporating new sensors and working collaboratively with other high-altitude investigation agencies, companies, assets and projects.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS on Aug. 30, sending an Argentine remote sensing satellite into a polar orbit, a flightpath from Florida that had not been used since 1969.
Rocket Lab’s Electron small satellite launcher returned to flight on Aug. 30, sending a 220-lb. (100-kg) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite into orbit for Capella Space, a San Francisco-based information services company.
Commercial space tracking startup LeoLabs is using its ground radars to monitor debris generated by a Russian Earth-resources satellite in the early hours of Aug. 27.
Getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket to the launchpad for a November 2021 debut flight will cost taxpayers $9.1 billion, breaching a 30% budget overrun that mandates congressional notification.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and others are attempting to make it clear that the International Space Station has the potential to light up a high-tech low Earth orbit economy and support humanity’s reach into deep space.
