The White House is hoping to lean on commercial space partners for future development of low Earth orbit, while NASA shifts its focus to deep space exploration. The refocus was codified in a policy directive… This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in to your account. Not a subscriber? Sign up here.
Small satellite constellations, with improved radio chips and smaller electronics, have been touted as a cost-effective solution to meet the rising demand for connectivity around the globe. But veterans of the commercial space sector will do well to remember the excitement, and later disappointment, of Teledesic… This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in […]
NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Low Down, our free weekly ebrief. Subscribe to receive our take on the latest news, enabling tech and emerging markets in the commercial space sector. Low Earth orbit broadband operator LeoSat Enterprises has secured over $1 billion in pre-launch commercial contracts. In a news release, the company said […]
i-Space is one of the few commercial space companies in China that have emerged over the past few years. The launch this week was its first official commercial launch – the first time a private company in China has launched a rocket into space carrying customer payloads… This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in […]
This small dexterous spacecraft can crawl around a malfunctioning satellite and help determine what went wrong. The cubesat spacecraft, called AMODS (autonomous mobile on-orbit diagnostic system), was developed by a group of US Navy researchers, led by ensign Ned Hanlon… This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in to your account. Not a subscriber? […]
This story originally appeared in the Low Down, our free weekly ebrief, delivered Wednesday mornings. Subscribe to receive our take on the latest news, enabling tech and emerging markets in the commercial space sector. The piece of news barely made a blip here in the US, but Scotland-based Skyrora held its first successful suborbital rocket […]
A new take on digital synthetic tracking could help space mining companies more quickly identify asteroids for mining. Asteroid mining firm TransAstra has been developing a suite of technologies that it says will enable future in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) missions. The company has received an award from NASA’s’ Tipping Point program and NIAC funding to […]
The technologies developed for on-orbit servicing will usher in an entirely new paradigm for satellites, but on-orbit satellite servicing may have a shorter shelf life than what was anticipated a decade ago. This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in to your account. Not a subscriber? Sign up here.
Space enterprise has become an alluring sector for investment. But news cycles around the space sector tend to obscure just how challenging it can be to match space timelines with business expectations. “It’s difficult to draw parallels with dotcom, or greentech or fintech… This content is available to subscribers only. Sign in to your account. […]
A newly proposed form factor could help small satellites get to space more easily, but the small sat market may be too mature for widespread adoption of a new standard. The average mass of satellites launched over the past five years has “downshifted” significantly, according to Carrie O’Quinn, senior project engineer at the Aerospace Corp. […]