Crew-9 Is In Orbit, But Falcon 9 Is Grounded
SpaceX will pause Falcon 9 launches after an anomaly.
Stories about US and international civil space missions, including those led by NASA and ESA.
SpaceX will pause Falcon 9 launches after an anomaly.
NASA is kickin’ it up a notch on a SSPICY mission to check out a defunct sat in LEO. Starfish Space will work on the program—formally known as the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability mission—under a Phase III SBIR contract from the space agency worth $15M over three years, NASA announced on Wednesday. A […]
“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”
“It’s time to repair the roof. And I use that literally, because we were in several facilities where the roof was literally leaking.”
Since GPS became operational in 1993, the US has been far and away the leader in satellite navigation technology. But the landscape is rapidly changing, and international alternatives are catching up.
What was originally a $383M contract to be finished by 2023 has ballooned into potentially $2.7B construction that won’t see completion until 2029.
Over the past two weeks, two federal watchdogs—the OIG and the GAO—released separate reports highlighting critical issues with two Artemis IV vehicles: Gateway and SLS Block 1B, the upgraded SLS variant.
While SpaceX’s proposal will significantly increase in the amount of rocket traffic above Boca Chica, the FAA found the impact to the environment should be minimal.
US and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to improve cooperation on various civil space priorities.
The space sector contributed $131B to American GDP in 2022, according to the most recent and precise analysis by the US government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.
NASA will pay SpaceX $843M to develop the US Deorbit Vehicle.
The leaders announced plans for the joint ISS mission last year, but “securing a carrier” for the flight is a significant update, though they didn’t provide details on which spacecraft would send the astronauts to the orbiting lab.