Month: November 2022

TOKYO—November 30, 2022—Today, ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar exploration company, announced that the Nov. 30, 2022, launch attempt of its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander has been updated to December 1, 2022, which will allow SpaceX to perform additional pre-flight checks of the launch vehicle.   The next launch opportunity will be as follows:  Thursday,…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., November 29, 2022 – The United States Space Force Space Systems Command’s Wide Field of View Testbed transmitted its “First Light” mission data-product. Performing the satellite’s mission operations, Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, secured the data beginning October 25.  “Achieving this major milestone is a huge accomplishment, and we…

Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will have a Zoom talk about her new book, “Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age.” Click the link below to register for this Influential Minds event with host Dr. Lawrence Jones: https://eei.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AfmMGa3iS-CpjMPQddMyOA?t=1669754848275

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 15, 2022 – Astroscale Israel, a subsidiary of Astroscale U.S. Inc., in Tel Aviv, announces the completion of two new state-of-the-art facilities. The new facilities include a clean room for mechanical design, production and assembly of space systems and a highly specialized computer vision robotics laboratory. These facilities will be used to…

Cannes, November 29, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that its new website is online at www.thalesaleniaspace.com. In line with Thales Alenia Space’s “Space for Life” vision to build a better and more sustainable life on Earth, the new website showcases the wealth of talent…

By David Bullock  Watch out “The Space Show,” Ben Gamble has a new podcast based across the pond called, “Astro Ben.” Gamble, who is based in the UK’s London, has about fifty plus podcasts as “Astro Ben.” He recently landed a sponsorship with Space Ventures for the podcast. Moreover, all of this space stuff is…

Scheduled for Launch on November 30, 2022 TOKYO—November 28, 2022— ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, announced today that it has completed launch preparations including integration of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander into the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.   The Mission 1 flight model was transported to Cape Canaveral in late October and since…

On December 15, the Embassy of Italy in Washington and the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) will celebrate the Italian National Space Day, in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and with the US Space Foundation, the US Chamber of Commerce and the George Washington University. Italian and US…

The Space Show this week – 11/28/2022 The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome Tom Gardner to the program from Advanced Space to discuss the Capstone Project – Cubesats and the Moon! 2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA is on its way to the International Space Station. Carrying more than 7,700 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched on the Falcon 9 rocket at 2:20 p.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…