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
By Tanmay Kadam/Eurasian Times Desk, Published by Eurasian Times, 9 March 2022 China’s Long March 2C rocket carrying seven satellites lifted off on March 5. Of them, six satellites were developed by private Chinese firm GalaxySpace with the aim of forming an experimental network for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband
By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 9 March 2022 An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency
By C. Thatcher Carter, Published by The Times Record, 9 March 2022 'Jonesport presented many unforeseen challenges, particularly when it came to the flow of accurate information,' bluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri said. Brunswick rocket company bluShift Aerospace announced Tuesday it will no longer pursue a launch site in Jonesport.
Published by Businesswire, 9 March 2022 Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart, Space Forge CEO Joshua Western and CTO Andrew Bacon sign launch agreement in Long Beach, California (Photo: Business Wire) LONG BEACH, Calif. & CARDIFF, Wales--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space
By Russ Bynum, Published by abcNews, 9 March 2022 A Georgia county’s plan to buy land for launching commercial rockets has been rejected by voters in a referendum forced by opponents concerned about environmental and safety risks SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A Georgia county’s plan to build a rocket launch pad
By John Vandiver, Published by Stars and Stripes, 9 March 2022 Service members from the U.S. and Polish armies walk to the site of a Patriot missile system near Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland in 2018. Two U.S. Patriot missile batteries have been dispatched to Poland, U.S. European Command said March 9,
By Leo Bruce, Published by NASA Space Flight, 8 March 2022 SaxaVord Spaceport has become the second launch facility in the United Kingdom to receive its milestone approval to begin construction. This comes after Sutherland Spaceport, another British vertical launch facility, cleared legalities last year and is now also in
