By Staff Writers, Published in Space Daily, 18 March 2021 Washington DC (SPX) - After completing a comprehensive review, the FAA approved the renewal of two Launch Operator Licenses for Orbital Sciences, LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. The licenses are valid for five years and authorize the company to
by C. Todd Lopez for DoD News, Published by Spacewar, 17 March 2021 Washington DC (AFNS) - As the Space Development Agency builds out the National Defense Space Architecture, it looks to a biannual "warfighter council" to provide guidance about what is actually important to those who will use the
By Ben Spencer, Published in the Sunday Times, 14 March 2021 A British craft pioneering efforts to clear junk from the Earth’s orbit will attempt to grab a satellite travelling at 17,000mph More than 300 miles above the Earth, a high-stakes game of catch is about to begin. A small
by Karl Grossman, from his blog, 12 March 2021 Demonstrations will be held this coming Friday and Saturday protesting the deployment of 5G—a technology that, among other issues, presents huge health risks by blanketing the Earth with radiation resulting in cancer and other illnesses, encourages satellite collisions generating space debris,
A rocket’s-eye view shows a stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites just before orbital deployment. (SpaceX Photo) by Alan Boyle, published by GeekWire, 11 March 2021 SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb say their satellite mega-constellations will make broadband internet goodness available to billions of people around the world who are unserved or
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:13 a.m. EST (0813 GMT) Thursday. Credit: SpaceX by Stephen Clark, Published by Spaceflight Now, 11 March 2021 Continuing a high-tempo launch cadence, SpaceX delivered another batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Thursday after
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) by Nathan Strout, published by C4ISRNET, 10 March 2021 WASHINGTON — As it prepares to
by Ollie Neas, Published by The Spinoff, 9 March 2021 Rocket Lab launches of satellites honing US military targeting capabilities have been criticised by the Peace Foundation, which is calling on the PM to step in. Peace groups are calling on the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to stop the launch
