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Year in Review: SpaceNews Recaps 2016

SpaceNews
December 19, 2016, Feature
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Earth scientists are freaking out. NASA urges calm.

Debra Werner
December 19, 2016, Feature
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The people and policy shaping NASA’s future under Trump

Jeff Foust
December 19, 2016, Feature
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Trump’s White House should make the Red Planet a big priority

Bruce Jakosky
December 19, 2016, My Take
Illustration of Astrobiotic's Peregrine lander on the surface of the moon. Astrobiotic announced partnerships with Airbus Defence and Space, and DHL, to support the lander's development. Credit: Astrobiotics Technology artist's concept.

Graduating from the Google Lunar X Prize

John Thornton
Commentary, December 19, 2016
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...
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How the NGA is learning to stop worrying and love open-source data

Phillip Swarts
December 19, 2016, Feature
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...
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Another swing and a miss for NASA authorization

Jeff Foust
December 19, 2016, Feature
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...
Navdeep Bains, Canada's minister of innovation, science, and economic development. Credit: Canadian Press/Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Canada’s innovation minister undertakes space policy revision

David Pugliese
December 19, 2016, Feature
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...
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JSAT stakes low-Earth-orbit claim with KSAT ground station deal

Caleb Henry
December 19, 2016, Feature
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...
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Small launch startups face big rewards, bigger challenges

Debra Werner
December 19, 2016, Feature
With companies planning to send thousands of small satellites into orbit in the next decade, the launch industry faces enormous rewards, but also sign...
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Night of the living space council

Peter Marquez
Commentary, December 19, 2016
Transition season inevitably means resurrecting the national space council is back on the table. It's transition season, so that means the return of ...
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Quick Takes (12-19-2016)

SpaceNews
December 19, 2016, Quick Takes
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
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Tobey’s teachable moment, revisted

Jeff Foust
December 19, 2016, Foust Forward
  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...
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Buley with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18 adjusts a radio terminal’s trajectory during a September exercise at Andersen
Air Force Base in Guam. The military is currently weighing commercial and government-owned solutions for meeting future wideband communications needs, and hoping the Pathfinder series of projects will help inform their decisions. Credit: Lance Cpl. Makenzie Fallon/USMC

Staying on the Path

Phillip Swarts
December 5, 2016, Feature
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Buley with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18 adjusts a radio terminal’s trajectory during a September exercise at ...
Audacy’s unique network architecture enables always on, real-time data access for satellites in non-geostationary orbits. Credit; Audacy graphic

An Earth-to-LEO comms revolution in the making

Debra Werner
December 5, 2016, Feature
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...
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Avio’s CEO on sharing the pie with Germany

SpaceNews
December 5, 2016, Feature
Guiulio Ranzo. Credit: Eric VandevilleThe recent German-Italian agreement to divide production of casings for the future Ariane 6 rocket’s strap-...
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