The recent boom in entrepreneurial space activity is fueling investor interest in the sector, but venture capitalists remain troubled by the number of entrepreneurs they meet who lack sound business plan.
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Unsold Capacity Knocks Avanti for a $2.9 Million Loss
Avanti’s three satellites have been just 20-25 percent full recently, says average pricing is holding firm in its core European, African and Middle Eastern markets.
Posted inPress Release
Rocket Motor Test Demonstrates Advanced Technologies for U.S. Air Force Strategic Detterence
The U.S. Air Force and Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) successfully conducted a ground level static fire test of the Medium-Class Stage III (MCS-III) solid rocket motor on November 5. This […]
Posted inOpinion
Op-ed | Getting Serious About the Moon Village
George Nield, the FAA’s associate administrator for commercial space transportation, explains what he likes — and what he doesn’t — about ESA Director-General Johann-Dietrich Woerner’s envisioned “Moon Village.”
Posted inLaunch
Lawmakers Seek Pentagon Review of ULA’s Delta 4, Aerojet Decisions
Fourteen members of Congress from California ask the Defense Department to examine the company’s decisions to retire its Delta 4 rocket and to drop Aerojet Rocketdyne as its solid-rocket booster provider.
Posted inCommercial
XpressSAR Receives NOAA Remote Sensing License
The company plans to deploy a constellation of radar imaging satellites in the early 2020s.
Posted inPress Release
Swift Spots Its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst
NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected its 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB). GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the […]
Posted inPress Release
UP Aerospace Demonstrates Capability to Eject Separate Payloads Requiring Independent Re-entry
Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built, commercial spaceport, announced the successful launch today of an UP Aerospace SpaceLoft™rocket carrying several scientific and engineering experiments. The launch took place this morning […]
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New Views Of 2014 Antares/Cygnus Launch Explosion
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A is seen after the Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, suffered a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at […]
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NOAA Told To Consider Commercial Data in New U.S. Space Weather Strategy
The White House wants U.S. agencies involved in space weather to consider commercial sources of observation data as they draft a unified, long-term plan for forecasting the kind of solar storms that can wreak havoc on all manner of electrical systems in space and on Earth.
