Industry is working every day to establish a long-term, sustainable human presence on the lunar surface. But the challenge of creating a complete, end-to-end cislunar economy doesn’t end with touchdown—or even with setting up shop permanently on the surface. To close the loop, material from the Moon also has to make its way back to Earth.
When four astronauts climb into NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, they will be doing something no one has done in more than half a century: leaving Earth for a journey to the Moon. Behind this historic flight is a spacecraft designed and built with one unmistakable priority—safeguarding its crew every step of the way.
The nominee to lead the Pentagon’s space policy wants to streamline collaboration between the Space Force and NRO.
As part of the contract, Slingshot will build 13 optical sensor systems at five sites around the globe, allowing the UK government to precisely track everything from satellites to debris to asteroids, according to a press release.
The Voyager Technologies ($VOYG) family is getting a little bit bigger. The broad-spanning space tech company announced Monday that it is acquiring ExoTerra Resource, a CO-based company building electric satellite propulsion systems. The companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal.
Remote sensing missions produce vast amounts of data which need to be processed and transmitted safely and at speed. Unfortunately the limited bandwidth and system complexity of traditional ground-based processing systems make this level of efficiency extremely difficult to achieve. A new approach is required. One that enhances data processing and transmits mission insights in […]
The ISS is about to get a new visitor.
One of Canada’s spaceports received new orbital-launch funding, aimed partly at sovereign defense needs.
Forget boots on the Moon. China looks like it’s going to beat the US to extract water from the lunar surface.
This week, a pair of primes—Lockheed Martin ($LMT) and Northrop Grumman ($NOC)—and satcom operator Iridium ($IRDM) reported their revenues for the third quarter. We’ve got the roundup of all the space-related tidbits inside.
Payload spoke with a handful of venture capital firms on the continent, and the overwhelming sentiment was the same: Startups are going to be just fine.
ESA’s Health Index for the space environment currently sits at a 4. For reference, 1 is the threshold for long term orbital sustainability.
