THAAD missile launch (Breaking Defense) By Theresa Hitchens, Published in Breaking Defense - 15 January, 2021 CBO estimates that developing F-35-launched boost-phase interceptors to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles would cost $25 billion to $40 billion to develop, with an additional $10 billion to $20 billion a year to
Regulators worry that the ITU’s current bring-into-use rules make it too easy for companies to warehouse spectrum, potentially tying up valuable non-geostationary satellite orbit frequencies for years without introducing new satellite services. Credit: OneWeb artist's concept by Jeff FoustPublished in Space News - 14 January, 2021 WASHINGTON — OneWeb says
Could future military space vehicles be driven by nuclear power? (United Launch Alliance) By: Aaron Mehta, Published in Defense News - 13 January, 2021 WASHINGTON — In the waning days of his administration, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at pushing the Department of Defense toward
Intuitive Machines will launch its IM-2 lunar lander mission, carrying a set of NASA payloads, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than 2022. Credit: Intuitive Machines by Jeff Foust, Published in Space News - 13 January, 2021 WASHINGTON — SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a
By Jillian Ambrose, Published in the Guardian - 12 January 2021 Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency hope to ‘revolutionise space travel’ with deal to build nuclear propulsion engines British spacecraft could travel to Mars in half the time it now takes by using nuclear propulsion engines built by Rolls-Royce under
Image: SpaceX has launched nearly 500 additional Starlink satellites so far this year. Credit: SpaceX By Kate Duffy, Published in Business Insider - 11 January 2021 The UK has given the green light for SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, and users in the country have already received their kit for
Image: SpaceX has launched nearly 500 additional Starlink satellites so far this year. Credit: SpaceX by Jeff Foust, Published in Space News - January 9, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission will allow SpaceX to launch 10 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on an upcoming mission, but deferred a
SpaceNews illustration/Adobe stock by Sandra Erwin, Published in SpaceNews, 8 January, 2020 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency foresaw the commercial space boom and recognized an opportunity. Ventures flush with private capital are gearing up to build large constellations of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide low-latency
