Despite the FAA’s position that it is time to regulate commercial space flight, a Senate bill would extend the industry’s regulatory grace period to 2020.
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Launch of Inmarsat’s 3rd Global Xpress Satellite Bumped to June by Centenario Delay
The Ka-band broadband satellite’s launch aboard a Russian Proton will not occur until early June due to a satellite hardware alert affecting Mexico’s Centenario satellite.
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Volcano Loki on Io Observed From Earth
With the first detailed observations of a lava lake on a moon of Jupiter, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona places itself as the forerunner of the next generation […]
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MDA Corp. Worries Canada Is Losing Its Robot Edge
MDA Corp. of Canada on May 4 warned that Canada was losing its space-robotics edge because of the government’s decision to pass up collaborative development opportunities in Europe and elsewhere.
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Iridium Seeks Change in Satellite Insurance Requirements
Iridium said it would ask its creditors to ease launch insurance requirements as the company prepares to deliver 72 satellites to orbit in the next 30 months.
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KinetX Aerospace Successfully Navigates NASA’s MESSENGER Spacecraft through Final Mission Phase
KinetX Aerospace, the first commercial company to navigate any spacecraft to distant planetary bodies, announced today that it has successfully guided the MESSENGER spacecraft through its final and perhaps most […]
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Op-ed | ORS: A Program Worth Fighting For
“Our nation faces a $16 trillion debt, and it only makes sense to evaluate and recommend changes or even terminate programs if they are not strategic or fiscally sound,” writes U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (R-N.M.). “ORS, however, is a program that makes perfect sense from both the monetary and military perspective.”
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NASA concludes most rigorous super pressure balloon flight to date
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – Following 32 days of flying its most rigorous test to date, NASA ended the flight of its super pressure balloon (SPB) Monday, April 27, while the balloon […]
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Boeing Postpones ILS Proton Launch of Mexico’s Centenario Satellite
A suspected problem on an unidentified Boeing-built satellite caused Boeing to postpone the scheduled April 30 launch of Mexico’s large Centenario mobile-communications satellite until the company is sure that Centenario does not have the same issue.
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First Booz Allen Satellite Will Observe Air Force Laser
Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm better known for pushing paper than building hardware, is launching a tiny satellite from the International Space Station this summer that could help the U.S. Air Force clear the air about a laser the service uses to calibrate one of its ground-based telescopes.
