Space

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.

“I think all of us expected it to be a crawl, walk, run sort of situation,” the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told reporters Feb. 12.

The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program is moving to the Space Development Agency to avoid redundancy.

The new astronauts would be eligible for exploratory missions to the surface of the Moon and perhaps Mars as well as to staff the International Space Station or commercial low-Earth-orbit successors.

Two Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster airlifters carrying the Mars 2020 rover and various other elements touched down at Kennedy Space Center’s former Shuttle Landing Facility shortly after 3 p.m. EST Feb. 12.

FalconEye has been successfully launched by Arianespace. The high-performance Earth observation satellite, which will act as an eye from space for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces (UAEAF).

NASA’s Washington headquarters is in line for the most, $7.75 billion, followed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston with $5.66 billion.

The Pentagon is requesting $15.4 billion for its newest service—the U.S. Space Force—in fiscal 2021, including a larger-than-anticipated increase in funding for a new generation of missile warning satellites.

President Trump’s proposed 12% boost in overall NASA spending for fiscal 2021 includes a roughly proportional decline in science spending.

NASA’s Artemis initiative to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface in 2024 is expected to cost about $35 billion going forward, Douglas Loverro, NASA’s new associate administrator for human exploration and operations, told a Feb. 10 news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.

NASA has substantially increased funding requested for aeronautics research in fiscal 2021 over the spending level envisioned a year ago.

President Donald Trump is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, a whopping 12% budget increase in an attempt to bankroll a fast-track mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024.

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.

The launch of the MeznSat satellite is a significant contribution from Ras Al Khaimah to the UAE’s position in the global space sector, asserted the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) following the official announcement that the MeznSat launch was a success.

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 9, sending a joint European-U.S. science spacecraft on its way for an unprecedented mission to study the Sun’s polar regions.

Singapore has revealed a new ambition in the space market.

NASA and Boeing will review all 1 million lines of code following errors found during the CST-100 Starliner's troubled uncrewed orbital flight demonstration mission in December.

From the rise and fall of research dollars to signs of a successful reorganization of space acquisitions, experts at the Center for Strategic and

The Space Development Agency intends to hold an industry day in Colorado Springs that coincides with the National Space Symposium.

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.

Ball Aerospace expects to hire around 1,000 new employees in 2020, following similar annual increases in recent years, executives said Feb. 6.

The market for radar images and radio frequency mapping from space still relies on military and government customers.

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.