By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 14 February 2023 The $4.5 million SBIR Phase 3 contract has $6 million option for an on-orbit demonstration WASHINGTON – Astranis Space Technologies won a $4.5 million contract to integrate a U.S. military communications waveform on one of the company’s satellite communications payloads, the
By Jason Ranbow, Published by SpaceNews, 13 February 2023 TAMPA, Fla. — Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde has filed for bankruptcy just months after noise complaints put an end to rocket engine tests. The five-year-old company, which had been developing a rocket that would use a stratospheric balloon as its first
By Matthew Jenkins, Published by The Space Review, 13 February 2023 In the early days of airpower, foresighted theorists like Billy Mitchell petitioned hard to demonstrate the value that airpower could bring to the warfighting abilities of the United States. Ardently campaigning, Mitchell got permission from Congress to illustrate this
By Richard Norton-Taylor, Published by Declassified UK, 10 February 2023 The new ‘authorised history’ of GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the spy agency. First, it was the Security Service, MI5; then the Secret
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 10 February 2023 TAMPA, Fla. — Inmarsat says it is still considering deploying a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of its own despite comments to the contrary by one of its executives this week. Speaking Feb. 8 at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View,
By Dan Sabbagh, Published by The Guardian, 9 February 2023 A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion.
Published by Sputnik News, 9 February 2023 MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's armed forces from using the Starlink satellite constellation for controlling and targeting drones as the technology was "never intended to be weaponized," Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 9 February 2023 The new technology will help ESA quickly remove satellites from orbit to tackle the growing space debris problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully deployed a braking sail designed to deorbit a small satellite, according to a release. The sail
