Satellite-based synthetic-aperture radar services provider Iceye has hired the former Google executive who led development of the Terra Bella Earth imaging constellation as its new U.S. CEO, and the move signals plans to make satellites in the U.S.
A group of software and aerospace veterans are aiming to raise and spend $200 million to offer cloud computing and data analytics to the coming explosion of low-Earth-orbit satellite-based systems.
Gerstenmaier, 65, left NASA last year after being reassigned by Administrator Jim Bridenstine in July to serve as a special advisor to Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard.
The rescheduled launch of Northrop Grumman’s 13th Cygnus re-supply mission to the International Space Station now is planned for no earlier than Feb. 13 at 4:06 p.m. EST.
KBR, Inc. will train commercial astronauts selected for missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps other destinations under a nonexclusive NASA Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 satellites for aspiring broadband operator OneWeb lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Feb. 6, setting the stage for monthly flights to build an initial constellation of 648 spacecraft.
U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
The FAA will introduce a new Space Data Integrator system in August to track space launch and recovery operations in real time with traditional air traffic, Administrator Steve Dickson said.
NASA expects to decide in the next couple of weeks whether to begin training two test pilots assigned to crew the upcoming SpaceX Demonstration 2 (Demo 2) mission for a possible extended stay aboard the International Space Station.
Ad Astra Rocket Co. is poised to bring the company’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket electric propulsion system to a Technical Readiness Level of 6.
