Lander companies prepare to shoot for the moon Original Publication Date: 2022-09-21 14:54 NASA has issued task orders for eight missions to five companies. Some of those companies are finally getting close to flying their missions. Another company, though, has stumbled long before taking its ...

Astrobotic announces plans for lunar power service Original Publication Date: 2022-09-19 16:55 Astrobotic unveils plans to develop a commercial power service for the moon. LunaGrid project will combine solar arrays with tethered rovers. The first operational LunaGrid system is planned for 2028, ...

NASA requests proposals for second Artemis crewed lunar lander Original Publication Date: 2022-09-18 11:03 NASA has released a request for proposals for a second human lunar lander. The lander would join the Starship lander under development by SpaceX. The winning company would carry out an ...

Shanghai rocket maker considering developing huge methane-fueled rockets Original Publication Date: 2022-09-18 12:21 China is looking at developing a series of partially and fully-reusable launch vehicles. A paper published in the journal Aerospace Technology outlines plans under consideration. ...

Congress asks for more transparency into New Shepard failure investigation Original Publication Date: 2022-09-16 09:17 Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas) sought more details into the investigation. They wrote that their interest stems from the fact that New Shepard also carries ...

New launch vehicles inch towards the pad Original Publication Date: 2022-09-15 08:24 Executives of several launch providers say they are entering home stretch of development of next-generation vehicles. United Launch Alliance still preparing for a first launch of its Vulcan Centaur before the ...

Bandwidth-hungry regional satellite operators hunting for options Original Publication Date: 2022-09-14 14:17 Regional satellite operators are looking for faster ways to add more capacity. Arabsat is in talks to buy Ka-band capacity in the Middle East and Africa. South Korea-based KT Sat is ...

New Shepard suffers in-flight abort on uncrewed suborbital flight Original Publication Date: 2022-09-12 15:18 Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle suffers in-flight abort a minute after liftoff. Capsule filled with payloads but not people fires its launch abort motor and parachute to a ...

Major operator consolidation is a long time coming Original Publication Date: 2022-09-12 13:12 Satellite operator consolidation has been a perennial topic at industry conferences. The rise of Starlink, OneWeb, and other NGSO broadband constellations has come amid a broader shift away from video ...

Interview with Luigi Pasquali, CEO of Telespazio Original Publication Date: 2022-09-12 00:04 Telespazio and Inmarsat signed a new deal involving the Moon in July. The agreement details the services they intend to offer together as the main operators of communication and navigation services for ...