The tracking service will use laser ranging to monitor objects in low Earth orbit, offering satellite operators the ability to identify collision threats and maneuver accordingly.
Originally planned for Aug. 24, the spacewalk was delayed when NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei experienced a pinched nerve in his neck and had to be replaced for the excursion.
Woolpert, a century-old mapping and surveying specialist, has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based company that specializes in providing photogrammetric mapping, orthography, lidar and GIS data to defense and intelligence communities.
A group of California lawmakers is pressing the Department of the Air Force to base the U.S. Space Force’s new training command in their home state, while warning that political interests should not influence future basing decisions and pointing to ongoing criticism of U.S. Space Command’s move to Alabama.
A group of four amateur astronauts poised to become the first privately funded orbital spaceflight crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch at 8 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15.
As Sierra Space continues final assembly of the Dream Chaser orbital spaceplane ahead of its launch in late 2022, the Colorado-based company is expanding its partnership with Japanese trading corporation Kanematsu to facilitate development of an international commercial economy in low Earth orbit.
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Sept. 9 despite a smoke alarm that sounded on the ISS several hours before the excursion.
The Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium other transaction authority has grown exponentially as the service has matured and evolved its acquisition process, and now expects to award almost $1 billion dollars this year largely to nontraditional companies.
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space, which aims to provide big-data analytics via space-based radio frequency reconnaissance satellites, said it raised Australian $12.6 million ($9.3 million) by way of a stock sale.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have joined several existing venture capital backers in a new $10 million fundraising round at on-orbit refueling and resupply startup Orbit Fab, the San Francisco company announced Sept. 7.
Inspiration4, the first all-civilian astronaut crew to orbit the Earth, will be doing a lot more than gazing out the windows of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
As NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission team worked to verify the successful collection of the large rover’s first sample of rock from the red planet, the rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter drone took flight over the Labor Day weekend for the 13th time.
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov carried out the first of a potential 11 spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 3 to prepare the recently arrived Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for future operations.
