Blue Origin and SpaceX start work on cargo versions of crewed lunar landers
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-22 00:26
NASA has exercised options in Human Landing System (HLS) awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX. The companies are working on versions of their landers that can carry large amounts of cargo. NASA made a passing reference to the work in a Jan. 9 announcement about the Artemis 2 and 3 missions.
UPDATE #2: SpaceX scrubs Sunday’s Starlink launch of smallsats now the fifth delay – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-21 00:00
SpaceX is scrubbing the launch of Starlink Group 7-11 for today and is now targeting Tuesday, January 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. Weather caused Sunday’s delay in SpaceX’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in northwestern Santa Barbara County. Liftoff is targeted for 4:35 p.m. PT. A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about five minutes prior to liftoff.
Scout Space names a new CEO – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-21 00:00
Philip Hover-Smoot, a long-time aerospace and defense executive, has been named the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), as of January 12, 2024. Hover-Smoot succeeds Co-founder and CEO, Eric Ingram, who will now be taking on the roles of Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategy Officer.
Viasat successfully demos the UK sovereign satellite navigation overlay for the 1st time – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-21 00:00
Viasat has demonstrated a UK satellite-based augmentation system (UK SBAS) for the first time. The UK is no longer part of the EU’s similar European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) The trial aims to provide a first step toward a complementary UK SBAS.
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. announces pricing of public offering of Class A common stock – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-21 00:00
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has announced the pricing of the firm’s previously announced public offering of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share. The Company has agreed to sell 32,258,064 shares of Class A Common Stock at a price to the public of $3.10 per share. The gross proceeds to the Company from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other offering expenses, will be approximately $100,000,000 million.
SDA’s draft solicitation for Tranche 2 Transport Layer- Gamma variant space vehicles – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-01-21 00:00
The Space Development Agency (SDA) sought industry feedback for the final of three types of Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) space vehicles. T2TL features multiple space vehicle and mission configuration variants procured through a multi-solicitation and multi-vendor acquisition approach.