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…

Having an asteroid named for him is just one of Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Space Studies Emeritus Mike Gaffey’s honors By Mackinney Supola Mike Gaffey, professor of Space Studies and a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, recently was awarded the title of Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Space Studies Emeritus.  As Gaffey takes this new…

By: Astroscale U.S.Posted December 23rd, 2022 Yesterday, President Biden signed the federal appropriations Omnibus into law which was one of the key pieces of legislation addressing orbital debris that Congress passed before leaving for the Holiday recess. Additionally, last week the U.S. Congress took a major step forward in leading on the orbital debris challenge…

Ready to Capture Satellite Communication Market Share HONG KONG, Dec. 20, 2022 — As Mainland China and Hong Kong have successively lifted several anti-epidemic measures, the economy is back on the normal track. Many companies are actively expanding new businesses to optimize their balance sheet. Among them, Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG; 1725. HK) announced after the market closed on…

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission. Sentinel-6B will continue the long-term global sea level data record begun in 1992 by Topex/Poseidon followed by Jason 1, 2, 3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. The mission is a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,…

Payload Check Outs and Orbital Control Maneuver Represent Completion of First 4 milestones TOKYO—December 16, 2022—ispace, a global lunar exploration company, announced today that it has completed all check outs of the customer payloads carried on board the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander. By completing the check outs and confirming that there are no deficiencies…