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August 1, 2016

Garvey's Prospector 19 first stage rocket during lift operations in Kodiak Island, Alaska, in 2015. Credit: Vector Space Systems

Vector Space Systems plans 2018 first flight

Jeff Foust
August 1, 2016, Feature
Orbital built the Broadband Advanced Technologies Satellite (BATSAT aka Teledesic T1)Credit: Orbital ATK

Thirty Years of Smallsat Conferences

Jeff Foust
August 1, 2016, Feature
Spaceflight’s Sherpa tug sits beneath a rocket’s primary payload to provide launch accomodations for numerous secondary payloads, such as the 90 satellites it will carry as part of an upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. Credit: Spaceflight artist's concept

Spaceflight’s 90-satellite mission, a boon for smallsats, 
is a nightmare for Orbcomm

Peter B. de Selding
August 1, 2016, Feature
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Defying Gravity

SpaceNews
August 1, 2016, Feature
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 lands at Launch Complex 13 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 18. Credit: SpaceX

The reusability challenge: economics, not technology

Jeff Foust
August 1, 2016, Foust Forward
Shortly before 1 a.m. on the morning of July 18, a Falcon 9 first stage descended through the skies above Cape Canaveral, Florida, after launching a Dragon cargo spacecraft. A series of engine burns brought the...
The role small satellites play in enhancing global awareness was the theme of the 2012 AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah. Credit: AIAA/USA Conference on Small Satellites

Smallsats and the multi-trillion-dollar data set

Dylan Taylor
August 1, 2016, Capital Contributions
Much has been said about the revolution in small satellite technology and the copious number of constellations already in orbit or being prepared for launch. Certainly the amount of capital that has flowed int...
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Time for smallsats to grow up and take responsibility

Jason Andrews
August 1, 2016, Commentary
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Small Satellite Conference, sponsored by  the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Utah State University. For 30 years, we as an industry have been ...
John Serafini, Allied Minds

More than Meets the Eye

Debra Werner
August 1, 2016, Feature
Non-visual data could be the next big thing 
in small satellitesHawkEye 360, a startup backed by a Boston venture capital firm and a former U.S. government intelligence official, is raising money to build...
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Builders of satellites large and small
 must work together to benefit science

Marco Villa
August 1, 2016, Commentary
In recent years, large satellite and small satellite companies have made groundbreaking technology advancements for the benefit of industry. Today, however, there is a divide between the two due, I believe, to ...
A "Hexagon" spy satellite on display at the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum in Virginia. Credit: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Small satellites, big expectations

Robert Zitz
August 1, 2016, My Take
If you watch enough spy movies, you’ll eventually see a large satellite whiz by and, on command, zoom in on a street hundreds of miles below, providing a view of events unfolding on the ground. Hollywood may b...
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FCC chairman to satellite industry: Shut Up

Peter B. de Selding
August 1, 2016, The Bottom Line
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s July 14 Spectrum Frontiers decision to make spectrum above 24 gigahertz available to future 5G terrestrial networks will be a subject of debate for years as 5G’s exa...
An Orion ground test article completed its first swing splash test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia in early June. Credit: NASA

Quick Takes (08-01-2016)

SpaceNews
August 1, 2016, Quick Takes
“From orbit, I saw our planet as a perfect blue marble, just floating there in the blackness of space. But I also saw receding glaciers and shrinking rain forests. At war, and in space, I saw the awesome ...
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Personnel File (8-01-2016)

SpaceNews
August 1, 2016, Personnel File
Robert Braun, who served as NASA chief technologist in 2010 and 2011, will join the  University of Colorado in October and take over as  dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science in January.One...
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