We begin today with the new age space race. Not so much with Russia anymore but another Asian near-peer competitor, China. As usual, the government is very interested in looking to academia to help keep…
November 9, 2022
Starting May of this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will have a new permanent director. President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Laurie Leshin was selected earlier this year to lead JPL. Before she takes the reins…
April 1, 2022
NASA recently announced its latest selections to receive grants from its Innovative Advanced Concepts program. This is one avenue researchers are able to get money for ideas that are sometimes requested, and sometimes not. To…
April 1, 2022
It is getting crowded up in space these days, and not just from operational equipment. Tens of thousands of objects are circling Earth, threatening launch vehicles, space assets, and even human lives. Now a coalition…
April 1, 2022
For this week, we’ll be airing a panel that I hosted recently for AFCEA NOVA’s Space Force IT Day earlier this month. My panel was on the topic of the State of the Space Industrial…
February 28, 2022
Virgin Orbit, a sister company of Virgin Airlines and Virgin Galactic just recently launched multiple satellites into orbit for three of clients, the most well known one being the Pentagon, more specifically, the Defense Department’s…
January 31, 2022
NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program is one that helps commercial space companies work with the agency to test out their new technologies, with the hopes of being able to use them for future missions. The program…
January 31, 2022
Skull and Bones, Porcellian, Tri Delta. The exclusivity of these clubs have nothing on NASA’s Astronaut Corps. With the agency looking to send Earth’s best and brightest into space, you can imagine just what it…
January 31, 2022
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, the most popular one that NASA is best known for now is it’s role in the International Space Station. Astronauts have lived and worked onboard the ISS…
January 31, 2022
Recently, astronauts on the ISS had to take shelter after a Russian anti-satellite weapon test created a dangerous cloud of space debris. Naturally, the US government is deeply concerned about the risk posed by space…
January 3, 2022
Could NASA be doing more to protect us from asteroids? Should it bring the Space Shuttle back? Questions like these are being asked by the folks at the Concerned American Aerospace Engineers. While certainly budget…
January 3, 2022
We’ll start the year off talking about NASA’s latest accomplishment, getting one of the biggest telescopes into space ever. Though the James Webb telescope still has a long way to go, the amount technical work…
January 3, 2022
From GPS, to weathertech, to national security, satellite imagery is used for all sorts of important aspects of life here on Earth. Now, one company is looking to vastly improve the quality of those images,…
December 6, 2021
The role of NASA administrator is one of the more unique positions in the federal government. Many agencies have a tough time just planning for next year, well imagine having to plan for projects that…
December 6, 2021
