Civil Policy & Politics

House bill offers flat funding for NASA

Space Force proposes headquarters staff led by generals and civilians

Commercial Launch

Rocket Lab Electron launch fails

Commercial Military
Descartes Labs wins U.S. Air Force contract for geospatial data analytics

The Air Force will use Descartes Labs' platform to draw intelligence from imagery collected by satellites and by autonomous aerial vehicles.

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Just in time for severe weather: Radio occultation data feeds NOAA weather models
Civil
Thales Alenia Space wins lion’s share of newly awarded Copernicus contracts
Military
L3Harris developing a constellation of small spy satellites for U.S. Air Force
Launch Military
Israel launches reconnaissance satellite
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UCAR’s president talks about space weather, radio occultation and a multidisciplinary approach to Earth science
Military
Air Force says 26 states have submitted bids to host U.S. Space Command
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The long countdown to commercial crew’s liftoff
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Op-ed | Is the future of space ops officeless?
Launch
China launches Shiyan-6 and Gaofen remote sensing satellites with two launches in three days
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Foust Forward | How will the pandemic change NASA?
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Op-ed | On the verge of a new era for space exploration? Assessing the impact of the ongoing crisis
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Military spaceplane experiment sheds light on space solar satellites