Month: November 2022

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed an agreement Friday strengthening the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts that advance the federal response to climate change. Specifically, the memorandum of understanding (MOU) enhances and expands the agencies’ longstanding partnership that promotes science and technology solutions to…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — NASA and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which leads Psyche, shared a response Friday to the results of an independent review board convened to determine why the mission to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name missed its planned 2022 launch opportunity. The mission is…

NASA will participate in the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, which begins Sunday, Nov. 6, and runs through Friday, Nov. 18. The COP27 summit brings together countries from around the world to increase ambition by implementing existing goals and strengthening commitments to solutions that address…

There has been a buzz in the halls of Astroscale U.S. ever since the FCC adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) related to Space Innovation and Facilitating Capabilities for In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) in late summer. After coalescing hundreds of hours of thought, work, and passion, our final Comment provides the FCC with information on…

A significant number of Indians have incorporated their space startups abroad.  This study looks at what can be done to address this and plug entrepreneurial brain drain. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/narayanprasadn_why-indians-incorporate-their-space-start-ups-activity-6994200925468786688-Pqap?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Response Date: November 21, 2022  SDA is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) for a Tranche 2 Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) service payload. SDA is interested in potentially proliferating a low cost L-band PNT service as a payload on the SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer.  The PNT payload would include an on-orbit reprogrammable PNT…

(Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Nov. 3, 2022) – The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 civilian polar-orbiting weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) is planned for Thurs., Nov. 10 at 1:25…

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2022 — SpiderOak, the leader in complete cybersecurity solutions for next generation space systems, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver the company’s OrbitSecure zero-trust protocol on-orbit. The project will demonstrate end-to-end cybersecurity for the Department of Defense’s future Hybrid Space Architecture,…

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