Recently, Major Kate Rubins became the first Army Reserve officer to receive the Basic Aviation Badge with Astronaut Device and Space Badge. Just tack it on as another accomplishment for her. As a microbiologist and NASA…
December 5, 2024
With space equipment staying up there longer and longer, where’s a good place to stop for gas? Well one company is looking to solve that problem. Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company, has been awarded…
December 5, 2024
The company MetTel has completed agreements making it an Authorized Starlink Reseller for both government and commercial enterprises. Starlink as most of you know is a service provided by SpaceX that mostly provides internet in…
December 5, 2024
With so much equipment in geostationary orbit conducting monitoring and measuring operations, that means a lot of data for those who have to analyze the findings. Naturally this can take a lot of time and…
December 5, 2024
Modernizing space programs while maintaining operations is one of the most challenging things, and rings true for the U.S. Space Force. It’s key though to keeping up with near peer competitors in the space front.…
November 4, 2024
Starting today with NASA where two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by the agency for additional review. Each proposal will be studied for a year and then…
November 4, 2024
A new challenge looks to digitally recreate the planning of each module of the International Space Station. It’s being put on by the organization Students for the Exploration and Development of Space or SEDS. “The…
November 4, 2024
The Spacecraft Cybersecurity Act was recently introduced in the House this past summer. The legislation would require NASA to secure a cybersecurity protection plan from manufacturers applying to use federal dollars to build NASA spacecrafts. The introduction…
October 9, 2024
Space Nuclear Systems are being utilized more and more these days. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that adding the word nuclear to anything mean safety needs to be of the utmost importance.…
October 9, 2024
The firm Aerospacelab, Inc. recently opened up a brand new satellite manufacturing facility in Torrance, California. The company plans on being to put out, on average, two satellites per week on a single shift schedule.…
October 9, 2024
Don’t know if you realize it but there’s a presidential election coming up in the next few weeks. Whoever does end up in the White House will have a lot decisions to make when it…
October 9, 2024
Space technology company Umbra has recently launched a new business line aiming to deliver high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. Through the mechanisms of how the company is structured, it’s been able to bring down…
September 11, 2024
Next month, the Association of Commercial Space Professionals will be hosting the Space Nuclear Policy Summit in Washington D.C. It aims to get the two sides together, both nuclear and space, to help with some…
September 11, 2024
The company KBR may not be the most well know commercial space company for those outside the business, but it’s one of the larger firms that does a ton of work with NASA. Which is how it…
September 11, 2024