By Andrew Griffin, Published by The Independent, 17 March 2022 Europe has suspended its ExoMars mission to the red planet, the space agency has announced. The European Space Agency said that it was now “impossible” to work with its Russian counterpart on launching the flight in 2022. As such, it
By Eric Berger, Published by ArsTechnica, 18 March 2022 "The program is an economic engine for America." On Friday morning, NASA's titanic Space Launch System reached the launch pad. The rocket is not yet ready to fly, and it may not lift off the planet for several more months. But
By Eric Ralph, Published by teslarati, 16 March 2022 The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has confirmed that its next spy satellite is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the same day the company is planning to launch four NASA and ESA astronauts. Following SpaceX’s flawless
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 15 March 2022 A $550 million congressional add-on in 2022 is only a down payment to kickstart the deployment of a 28-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit WASHINGTON — A $550 million increase to the Pentagon’s 2022 budget was directed by Congress to procure
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 14 March 2022 This will likely come as a surprise to no one who has closely watched the development of NASA’s next giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), but it’s going to be expensive to use. Like, really expensive – to the
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 14 March 2022 The two Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellites were taken out of service on March 8 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency decommissioned two missile-tracking satellites that have operated in low Earth orbit for more than 12 years, MDA said
By Vivienne Machi, Published by C4ISRNET, 14 March 2022 STUTTGART, Germany — France is several years into a multibillion-euro investment in military space capabilities, and the country is using its temporary role leading the European Council presidency to emphasize the operational domain’s importance across the continent. Mirroring its American partners,
By Dan Dumbacher, Oped Published by SpaceNews, 13 March 2022 More than 1,500. That’s the additional pieces of debris now floating around in low Earth orbit because of the reckless and irreversible Russian anti-satellite test last November. Another 13,000 small satellites will be added by the Chinese when they deploy
