White House directs NASA to develop lunar time standard Original Publication Date: 2024-04-03 01:52 White House policy calls for new time standard for use on cislunar missions. New time standard based on Coordinated Universal Time on Earth but adapted to moon. Policy provides little technical ...

Army to refine requirements for next-generation satellite terminals Original Publication Date: 2024-01-14 21:48 Army is trying to consolidate as many as six types of terminals into just two variants. Having fewer large terminal antenna variants is a key goal. Army has not disclosed estimates of ...

Industry group opposes White House mission authorization proposal Original Publication Date: 2023-11-28 23:51 Industry group says it is opposed to a White House proposal for regulating novel space activities. The proposal would split responsibilities for commercial space activities between two ...

Former Airbus executive Chris Emerson named chairman of All.Space Original Publication Date: 2023-09-11 10:00 Chris Emerson is the former head of Airbus U.S. Space and Defense. He has been named chairman of the board of All.Space, a British manufacturer of terminals. Emerson joins All.Space as ...

Report: U.S. military satellite antennas overdue for upgrades Original Publication Date: 2023-04-10 21:22 GAO auditors spent more than a year investigating the state of the Satellite Control Network. The network of 19 parabolic antennas, first established in 1959, is distributed around the ...

China’s Space Pioneer reaches orbit with liquid propellant rocket Original Publication Date: 2023-04-03 09:11 Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket. The rocket used coal-derived kerosene instead of the fuel refined from ...

Relativity Space scrubs first launch attempt Original Publication Date: 2023-03-08 00:00 Relativity Space’s first launch countdown aborted about a minute before liftoff. The startup aerospace company plans to try again Saturday. The Terran 1 rocket could become the first methane-fueled launcher ...