The FAA is requesting a nine-percent budget increase beginning in October for its commercial space office, whose resources have been stressed by an increase in launch activity and two high-profile accident investigations.
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Students Selected for Winning Designs of 3-D Printed Tools for Astronauts
Sydney Vernon of Bellevue, Washington during her finalist interview with Astronaut Reid Weisman. Image Credit: Adrienne Gifford After three months of designing and modeling, a panel of judges from NASA, the […]
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Ball Aerospace Integrates Two of Five Instruments for JPSS-1
Two of the five instruments scheduled to fly on the nation’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System -1, have been integrated to the spacecraft bus by prime […]
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Satellite Shows Developing U.S. Nor’easter
National Weather Service forecasters have been tracking a low pressure area that moved from the Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean today, and is expected to become a strong nor’easter that […]
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Return of Launch Competition Tops U.S. Milspace Procurement Manifest
Two competitive national security launches, the first to be awarded under the U.S. Air Force’s main satellite launching program in 15 years, will be among the Defense Department’s most closely watched space-related procurements this year.
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Weather Sat, CRS-2 Top U.S. Civil Space Procurement Agenda for 2015
In two of this year’s higher-profile civil space procurements, NASA’s commercial cargo carriers face challengers for follow-on contracts to haul supplies to the International Space Station, while Ball Aerospace is competing to build another polar-orbiting weather spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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SpaceX, Air Force Settle Lawsuit over ULA Blockbuy
SpaceX will drop its lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force in exchange for the service making more national security launch missions available for competition.
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SES, O3b Execs View Proposed Mega-constellations with Open but Skeptical Minds
SES said it would jump into the market for offering global broadband communications from a low-orbiting constellation if the latest efforts announced by SpaceX, Google, Virgin Group and Qualcomm show signs of proving themselves.
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SpaceX-Google Matchup Sets Up Satellite Internet Scramble
SpaceX’s Jan. 20 confirmation that Google and mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments had invested a combined $1 billion in SpaceX set the stage for what could be a multi-year competition for capital and engineering resources among consortia aiming to build satellite networks for global Internet connectivity.
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Signs of a Satellite Internet Gold Rush in Burst of ITU Filings
The International Telecommunication Union has registered at least a half-dozen filings for massive constellations in the past eight weeks, a development that suggests a Gold Rush mentality may be taking hold.
