SpaceLogistics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.
Read More »World View Stratollite fleet To Provide High Resolution Imagery And Data Analytics In The Americas
World View Enterprises, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: James Ellinthorpe Of Aerojet Rocketdyne
Aerojet Rocketdyne develops and manufactures advanced propulsion and energetics systems for customers including the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and other agencies and companies.
Read More »Economist Nouriel Roubini Speculates 2020 Will See “First Global Cyber War”
One of the world’s most notable economists, Professor Nouriel Roubini, has speculated that 2020 will see its first all-out cyber war.
Read More »Rakuten and Vodafone Invest in AST & Science’s Space Venture
Rakuten and Vodafone have become the lead investors in a venture to extend mobile coverage to more people and devices across the planet, using the first mobile broadband network that will be broadcast from space.
Read More »PredaSAR Completes US$25 Million Seed Financing Round, Names CEO
PredaSAR Corporation which is building and will operate the world's largest and most advanced commercially operated Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation, announced on 2 March 2020 that it successfully completed a US$25 million seed financing round.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: How To Optimise Your Headspace On A Mission To Mars
Imagine being confined to a metal cell with a couple of other people and few amenities for months or even years. Maybe after that, you’ll be moved to a new compound, but you still have no privacy and extremely limited communication with your family and anyone else in the outside world.
Read More »NASA Awards Launch Services Contract For The Psyche Mission To SpaceX
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to launch in July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The total cost for NASA to launch Psyche and …
Read More »Virgin Galactic Invites Aspiring Astronauts To Take “One Small Step” As Company Experiences Rocketing Global Demand
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. announced on 25 Febrary 2020 that in preparation for the re-opening of spaceflight sales, it is introducing the One Small Step initiative.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Releases Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program Opportunity
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued an industrial capacity-building contribution announcement of opportunity (AO) for the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP), as reported by Space Q.
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