“The reality is we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do to secure this country,” he said. “We can’t just pretend like we don’t need to know what’s happening out there, from a national security perspective.”
Muon Space will integrate Starlink’s mini-laser terminals into future iterations of Muon’s Halo satellite platform as soon as 2027.
“I love SpaceX; it’s an amazing company. The problem is, they’re behind…and we’re in a race against China,” Duffy said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “So I’m going to open up the contract. I’m going to let other space companies compete with SpaceX.”
In Europe, many first launches originally aiming to fly in 2025 will spend New Year’s at home.
On Friday, the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which supports both DoD and the intelligence community with imagery collected in orbit, awarded Planet Labs a $12.8M contract through the Luno B program.
Air-breathing propulsion works exactly as it sounds. The satellites fly between 150km and 500km in altitude, and use oxygen in the upper atmosphere for fuel.
Europe is still waiting on reliable access to space. Investors are keen on shortening that wait.
If you want to launch from Europe, be prepared to queue for a while.
This week, Beyond Gravity became the latest European parts manufacturer to expand its production facility.
Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved a procedure to license space launches swiftly—a key milestone ahead of operations at the nation’s new Etlaq Spaceport.
To anyone worried about “militarizing” the Moon, Jim Bridenstine has some sage advice: get over it.
Earth Observation (EO) missions generate vast datasets which traditionally rely on ground-based processing. Unfortunately this processing model comes with considerable challenges like high latency and limited bandwidth, making it difficult to retrieve the real time insights that Earth Observation missions require.
