An artist's impression of SaxaVord rocket launch By Laura Goodwin, Published by the BBC, 13 December 2023 The UK Space Agency has announced funding of more than £6.7m to further Scotland's spaceports ambitions. Scottish-based HyImpulse, a launch company working with SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland, will receive £3.4m. And Orbex, which
By Tamara Lorincz, 12 December 2023 Handout_Cancel-F-35-Fighter-Jets-Keep-Space-for-PeaceDownload It has been extremely busy at the climate summit in Dubai. I have worked really hard every day to promote the messages of peace for climate justice, cut military spending for climate finance, demilitarize to decarbonize, NATO is a threat to people &
Rendering of General Atomics Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) program. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 12 December 2023 Space Systems Command will invite companies to pitch technologies at a “reverse industry day” ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force will launch a new market research study next year to
Lt Gen John Shaw, USSPACECOM Deputy Commander and Joint Operations Center personnel pose for a photo at USSPACECOM headquarters, Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. (John Ayre / United States Space Command) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 12 December 2023 "In a sense, we drive our satellites today as
Mock-up of the Rolls-Royce lunar micro-reactor: Rolls-Royce By David Szondy, Published by New Atlas, 10 December 2023 Rolls-Royce gave us a glimpse of the nuclear future of next-generation spacecraft and Moon bases when it unveiled a mock-up of its Space Micro-Reactor Concept Model at the UK Space Conference in Belfast, which ran
The Zhuque-2 Y-3 carrier rocket, a methane-liquid oxygen rocket by Chinese company LandSpace, carrying satellites takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in Gansu province, China December 9, 2023. (Reuters) By Roxanne Liu, Ella Cao and Ryan Woo, Edited by Josie Kao, Grant McCool and William Mallard, Published by Reuters,
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, geared to look at enabling large structures in orbit, such as antennas and solar arrays. (Image credit: DARPA) By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 8 December 2023 "Something strange is happening about
Starlink is not yet commercially available for new customers in Ghana or the majority of countries in Africa. Credit: Starlink By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 8 December 2023 TAMPA, Fla. — Ghana is the latest country in Africa to warn against using Starlink before it issues licenses for SpaceX’s satellite
