Month: January 2023

By David Bullock NYC-based Tonya McPhearson has been following the space beat for some time now and has seen the changes and the economic opportunities in the sector, over the past ten years. She has a background in economics and finance and started working in hospitality before becoming a space entrepreneur and consultant a decade…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — NASA has awarded the Space and Earth Sciences Data Analysis-V (SESDA-V) contract to ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide Earth and Space Science research and development at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.   This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $468 million and a five-year ordering…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old. “Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur – but, above all, he was an explorer. On…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – January 3, 2023– Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection today has been selected by Bechtel Corporation to manufacture cables for the NASA Mobile Launcher 2 project. Sidus was previously awarded a contract to fabricate custom cables and populate…

SpaceX is ready to launch some New Year’s fireworks later today with a mission to fly 114 different satellites into orbit to kick off 2023. A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX will launch the company’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission at 9:56 a.m. EST (1355 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.  D-Orbit: Is flying two of their ION tugs on…