The U.S. military is pursuing novel ways to harness commercial satellite connectivity
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Playback | SpaceNews 2023 Icon Awards panel discussion
This year’s SpaceNews Icon Awards celebrated the tremendous growth, recent successes, and all-around upswing of the commercial, military, and civil space industries. A highlight of the afternoon was a panel discussion hosted by SpaceNews senior staff writers Jeff Foust and Sandra Erwin, with some of the award winners. During the panel, guests were asked to discuss the industry’s crowning achievements from the past year, some of the main obstacles or challenges currently posing a risk to continued development in space, and what most excites them about the future, among other things.
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The 2023 SpaceNews Icon Awards: Winners
SpaceNews established the awards in 2017 to recognize and celebrate the people, programs and institutions shaping a rapidly evolving global space economy. Chosen by SpaceNews journalists with invaluable input from […]
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Launch on demand: If satellites are shot down, will Space Force be ready to restock?
Responsive space launch capabilities are gaining more attention as world events that underline the strategic value of satellites also makes them more attractive targets for adversaries.
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Getting a jump on traffic: The sudden urgency of government-industry partnerships in space traffic management
There is a trend of growing private sector capabilities to track objects and warn of potential conjunctions.
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From a farside first to cislunar dominance? China appears to want to establish ‘space economic zone’ worth trillions
A year that began with China claiming the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon came to a close with questionable claims the emerging superpower intends to make cislunar space the celestial equivalent of the disputed South China Sea.
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Space as a service takes root at RBC Signals
RBC Signals is expanding its global network of ground stations by combining excess capacity in existing antenna networks with its own antennas. CEO Ron Faith spoke with SpaceNews about the lessons he sees in the growth of cellular networks at the World Satellite Business Week conference in September.
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Iridium expects Aireon to pay off $200M debt by end of 2021
Aireon, the aircraft-tracking venture Iridium Communications founded to help finance construction of the now nearly completed Iridium Next Constellation, is close to securing a new credit line that should allow the firm to catch up on $200 million in overdue payload hosting fees.
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Military launch poised for new era as Air Force prepares to move beyond EELV
The U.S. Air Force is moving into the next chapter of military space launch — competitive procurement of launch services from a wider field of commercial vendors with entirely U.S.-made rockets.
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Blue Origin’s anticlimactic victory and Aerojet’s Plan B
ULA finally selects BE-4 engine for Vulcan, marking an anticlimactic victory for Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin (and another disappointment for Aerojet Rocketdyne).
