By Theodora Ogden, Published by Consortium News, 13 May 2022 The future of space could be a gold rush for resources – and not everyone will benefit Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help scientists track
By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 23 April 2022 The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder. Commander of the 18th SDS, Lt. Col. Matt
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 19 April 2022 TAMPA, Fla. — Cloud computing startup Lonestar said April 19 it has contracted commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines to deploy a mini proof-of-concept data center on the moon next year. The hardback novel-sized “data center in a box” is part
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 18 March 2022 The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the
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 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 Aidan Poling, Published by Georgetown Security Studies Review, 4 March 2022 January 27th, 1967 has a bitter-sweet legacy in the history of space travel. In Cape Canaveral Florida, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee were killed during a rehearsal for the inaugural flight of the Apollo program. The
By Eric Berger, Published by Ars Technica, 3 March 2022 The US Air Force Research Laboratory seeks to develop a satellite to patrol cislunar space. "Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles above Earth." This week, the US Air Force Research Laboratory released a video on YouTube
