Space

Lockheed Martin wants to use ISS as a commercial springboard to the Moon and beyond.

The UAE Space Agency today has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian Federal Space Agency ROSCOSMOS to create a strategic space partnership between the two entities.

NanoRacks is planning a commercial airlock on ISS to ease traffic crunch in Japanese module.

Established satellite service players have largely welcomed Silicon Valley’s sudden interest in the space sector—including some fleet operators who see the potential to collaborate with new LEO networks.

Silicon Valley’s renewed interest in space-based global connectivity offers opportunities.

Led by Airbus Defense and Space and Surrey Satellite Technology, the Ku-band Eutelsat Quantum satellite will allow coverage areas to be redefined via software uploads in response to shifting service demand.

The cargo CST-100 also would offer unpressurized “upmass” to the International Space Station (ISS) in its throwaway service module.

African air navigation organisation ASECNA is to co-operate with traffic management venture Aireon to explore space-based surveillance for remote regions, reports Flightglobal.

An uprated engine and other enhancements to the Falcon 9 rocket will give SpaceX the ability to continue lifting commercial satellites to GEO while testing reusability of the launcher’s core stage. But it could require additional efforts to certify the vehicle for government missions.

Truck-stopping laser; Lockheed backs Rocket Lab smallsat booster; quantum radar entangles microwaves and optics; CMCs feel the heat in GE engine tests; Kalashnikov buys into Russian UAV maker, and other unmanned news.

NASA’s Dawn asteroid-belt probe has used its solar-electric propulsion system to achieve orbit around Ceres.

CEOs are often unprepared for their myriad challenges. Pressure to consolidate across borders could ratchet up the pressure.

U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field.

CETel and satellite operator ARABSAT are stepping into the extended C-band with their jointly built earth station, offering unprecedented business expansion possibilities with the launch of teleport facilities, network and broadband services as well as solution design across the whole African continent, Middle East, Europe and Central Asia on board ARABSATs state-of-the-art satellite Arabsat-5C on 20 degrees East.

Three spacecraft, with a fourth to follow, are exploring frozen worlds that may explain the origin of life on Earth.

Kremlin bloviating notwithstanding, both the U.S. and Russia understand that human-spaceflight cooperation is a buffer against hostility.

Watch Mark Carreau interview NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station.

Six DMSP satellites are now left to provide the weather data needed for the military.

Russia plans to end its participation in the International Space Station after 2024, and develop its own national space station in low Earth orbit.

Complex constellation of four spacecraft will characterize what happens when magnetospheres collide.

Long-delayed NASA James Webb Space Telescope to run tests of critical instruments this summer.

Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.

To fulfill its NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, the company says it is on track with plans to use a United Launch Alliance Atlas V to lift its next Cygnus pressurized cargo carrier to the station this fall.

Why NASA needs an Asteroid Deflection Technology Development program, rather than an Asteroid Redirect Mission.

President Barack Obama has vowed that the U.S. would be “pushing out into the Solar System, not just to visit, but to stay.”