Koichi Wakata, the Japanese space agency’s vice president and director general for human spaceflight technology, is intimately familiar with the International Space Station. As an astronaut, he helped assemble the space station in 2000 and lived onboard for four months in 2009 and six months in 2013 and 2014.
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NGA assembles jigsaw puzzle of diverse commercial, government geospatial data sets
“We are trying to effectively link air, land, sea and space. The geospatial context on the ground may give you some type of indications and warning of something happening in space,” said Chirag Parikh, director of NGA’s Office of Source Strategies.
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A test for Air Force space technology buyers: Fast prototyping
“Other transactions authorities” allow the Air Force to go faster to prototyping.
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SpaceX takes top honors in SpaceNews Awards for Excellence & Innovation
SpaceNews honored during an awards luncheon held Dec. 19 at the City Club of Washington. The luncheon was organized in partnership with the Washington Space Business Roundtable.
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3-D printing and in-orbit manufacturing promise to transform space missions
Made In Space is changing the way people plan for spaceflight missions by demonstrating that tools, spare parts and spaceflight hardware can be manufactured in orbit. The company is building Archinaut, a sophisticated 3-D printer equipped with a robotic arm to manufacture and assemble complex structures in orbit such as satellite reflectors and antennas.
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Smallsats need small propulsion. Boston startup Accion has a few big ideas.
Small satellites need their own propulsion systems because most of the widely used chemical and electric propulsion technologies don’t fit well on shoebox-size satellites and they are difficult to scale down. Natalya Bailey, co-founder of Accion Systems, is well aware of this problem.
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As annual SmallSat gathering convenes, small satellites have never been a bigger deal
When Pat Patterson was a student at Utah State University in 1987, a friend told him about a conference on small satellites taking place on the campus. “What’s a small satellite?” he replied.
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Q&A: NGA’s Diana Hughes has big expectations for small businesses
“We are looking for innovation. New companies spring up around great new ideas. We are looking for that kind of out-of-the-box thinking,” Hughes said.
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Air Force knocking down stovepipes to shore up space cybersecurity
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center faces unique challenges because it uses an extensive array of ground systems – some decades old – to communicate with individual satellites.
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Why SES all but skipped Satellite 2017
Satellite 2017 visitors were surprised to see Kymeta Corp.’s booth in the prominent exhibit hall location traditionally reserved for global satellite fleet operator SES.
