By Paul Brinkman, Published by Space Daily, 19 April, 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - Amazon's plans to build the Kuiper Project satellite Internet service to rival SpaceX's Starlink now have a launch provider, Colorado-based United Launch Alliance. Amazon has contracted with ULA for nine launches, the online retail giant said,
By Amanda Miller, Published by Air Force Magazine, 16 April 2021 The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 13 April 2021 Slingshot teamed with Zoic Labs to develop a graphics tool to help operators view and interact with complex data. WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace announced April 13 it won a $1.2 million Space Force contract for the development of software to help
by Morgan Artyukhina, Published by Space War, 8 April 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - While the Pentagon has cried foul over Russian space-based devices it claims are weapons, the US has tested its own identical devices for years. Their claims have served as the alarmist foundations for justifying the creation of
By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 7 April 2021 WASHINGTON — SpaceX continued the rollout of its Starlink broadband constellation with another launch of 60 satellites April 7, edging closer to providing continuous global service. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space
By Park Si-soo, Published by SpaceNews, 30 March 2021 SEOUL, South Korea — Hanwha Systems, the South Korean conglomerate that added a bankrupt phased-array antenna maker to its growing portfolio last year, is planning to build and deploy a constellation of 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2030 to
By Jason Rainbow, Published in SpaceNews, 30 March 2021 TAMPA, Fla. — The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has extended a contract to use British operator Inmarsat’s satellites to 2027, expanding the agreement to cover managed services. The contract extension, worth 221 million Australian dollars ($291 million), comes a month after
Published by the Royal Astronomical Society, 29 March 2021 Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood. The research, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters,
