An American subsidiary, Telesat U.S. Services, of Canadian global FSS operator Telesat was awarded a satellite production contract on 14 October. The contract was handed down by the US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), a military technology research...
After a long delay, given that President Trump’s inauguration was in January, he and his administration have finally plumped for a new Administrator for NASA: Jim Bridenstine – a Republican Party member of Congress. Some space experts have reservations about...
At 1530 GMT on 24 June 2016, an Atlas V in the 551 configuration launched the fifth Mobile User Objective System, MUOS, satellite for the US Navy. The rocket lifted-off from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the 108th ULA (United Launch Alliance) launch and...
The second enhanced-Cygnus cargo craft, Cygnus OA-6 (Rick Husband), undocked from the ISS (International Space Station) at 1143 GMT on 14 June 2016, and was released at 1330 GMT. For the return trip 1,854 kg of waste was loaded onto the craft. The secondary...
Burt Rutan has released the following statement:To my friends in the Press…Since the WSJ chose to cherry-pick and miss-quote my comments to CongWolf and since the blogs have taken that to further mischaracterized mycomments, I am forwarding the Wolf memo in its...
NASA’s first foray into private spaceflight, the commercial orbital transportation services programme, also known as COTS, has seen a 60% hike in the agency’s investment with the fiscal year 2011 budget Originally planned to cost $500 million which the...
