Top Stories of the Week from SpaceNews
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the top SpaceNews stories of the week, brought to you every Friday! This week, Intuitive Machines receives a major NASA contract for lunar services, updates from WSBW in Paris, and more. | | |
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By Jeff Foust, Sept. 18, 2024 |
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Intuitive Machines has won a NASA contract worth up to $4.8 billion to provide communications and navigation services at the moon to support the Artemis lunar exploration campaign.
NASA announced Sept. 17 it awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines to support its Near Space Network, an existing system that provides communications services for NASA missions in Earth orbit and cislunar space. The award, formally known as Subcategory 2.2 GEO to Cislunar Relay Services, has a maximum value if all options are exercised of $4.82 billion.
The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has an initial five-year base period that begins Oct. 1, with an option for a second five-year period. The agency did not disclose how much had been initially obligated under the contract. Read More |
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Saudi Arabia plans space industry transformation Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-backed Neo Space Group (NSG) is looking to lease multi-orbit capacity to bolster its foothold in the satellite market, ahead of likely owning and operating its own constellation. Read More
Executives with several Earth observation companies said during a panel at World Space Business Week here Sept. 19 that they are keeping tabs on SpaceX's Starshield system, with some seeing competitive concerns and others opportunities for partnerships. Read More
Infosys invests in Indian Earth-observation startup GalaxEye
GalaxEye is preparing to launch in 2025 what it calls "the world's first" multi-sensor Earth-observation satellite. The satellite will be equipped with a synthetic aperture radar and a multispectral sensor. GalaxEye has demonstrated the performance of the sensors on drones, Singh told SpaceNews. Read More | | |
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| | China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The plan will see China's space science efforts—marked in recent years by successful dark matter, quantum and space physics missions—transitioning into an accelerated development phase. The long-term plan aims to solidify the country's role in global space science. Read More
The FAA announced Sept. 17 that it notified SpaceX of $633,009 in proposed fines for violating terms of its launch licenses during the June 2023 Falcon 9 launch of the Satria-1, or PSN Satria, broadband satellite and the July 2023 Falcon Heavy launch of Jupiter-3, or EchoStar-24, broadband satellite. Both launches were successful. Read More
SpaceX letter criticizes FAA for "systemic challenges" in launch licensing SpaceX fired back at the Federal Aviation Administration, blaming the FAA for dragging its heels on what the company considered minor changes. SpaceX released Sept. 19 a letter it sent to the leadership of the House Science Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee, the two committees with oversight of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or AST. Read More | | |
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| | OPINION |
|  | By Brian Berger, Sept. 18, 2024
| | Thirty-five years ago this week, SpaceNews published its first issue, defying naysayers who claimed the space industry circa 1989 was too small to justify a dedicated weekly publication. With a small but passionate team — much like today's — we set out to cover the business and politics of space at a time when commercialization was still in its infancy.
Three and a half decades later, we find ourselves reporting on an industry that has grown and flourished beyond anything we could have imagined. From the early government-dominated space programs to today's bustling commercial ventures, the landscape has dramatically changed—but our mission remains the same: to provide clear, insightful, and authoritative coverage of the business, politics, and technology driving the space industry. Read More
The expanding opportunity for American and Indian space cooperation
By David Logsdon and Anil Prakash
War game reveals Chinese attacks on communications could paralyze Taiwan
By Henry Sokolski
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