Graduating from the Google Lunar X Prize
Six years ago, Astrobotic made a bold move. We were the first Google Lunar X Prize team to announce a contract with a launch service provider to compe...
How the NGA is learning to stop worrying and love open-source data
An interview with Chris Rasmussen, NGA’s GEOINT Pathfinder lead
Most of what the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency does is carried out in...
Another swing and a miss for NASA authorization
For advocates of a NASA authorization bill, the refrain is once again the same as fans of a losing sports team: Wait ’till next year.
In the final ho...
Canada’s innovation minister undertakes space policy revision
Canada will develop a new space strategy, revamping its long-term goals with a focus on advanced technology that can contribute to growing the country...
JSAT stakes low-Earth-orbit claim with KSAT ground station deal
The LEO smallsat gold rush has Japan’s largest GEO fleet operator looking to fill Asia’s ground-station void with a little help from Norway
Sky Perfe...
Small launch startups face big rewards, bigger challenges
With companies planning to send thousands of small satellites into orbit in the next decade, the launch industry faces enormous rewards, but also sign...
Night of the living space council
Transition season inevitably means resurrecting the national space council is back on the table.
It's transition season, so that means the return of ...
Quick Takes (12-19-2016)
NASA released an announcement of opportunity (AO) for the agency’s next New Frontiers planetary science mission Dec. 9, kicking off a multi-year competition
Tobey’s teachable moment, revisted
a college lecture gone viral cost the ula exec his job. an investigation finds the incendiary comments were just hot air.
It was the recordin...
Staying on the Path
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Buley with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18 adjusts a radio terminal’s trajectory during a September exercise at ...
An Earth-to-LEO comms revolution in the making
An avalanche of commercial spacecraft are bound for orbit. Will they need commercial data-relay networks to keep in touch? These firms think so.
Ral...
Avio’s CEO on sharing the pie with Germany
Guiulio Ranzo. Credit: Eric VandevilleThe recent German-Italian agreement to divide production of casings for the future Ariane 6 rocket’s strap-...