Plus: Taiwan's push for multinational collaboration
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In this last edition for this year’s show: space station developers pushed back against the idea they don't have a market, Taiwan called for multinational collaboration, PlanetIQ secured a $15 million Air Force STRATFI contract and more. Look out next week for our digital Space Symposium conference wrap-up edition containing all our daily issues, delivered via email.
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By Jeff Foust Companies proposing to develop commercial space stations are pushing back against claims by NASA that a market for such stations has yet to develop.
During a panel April 15, executives with three companies working on such stations said they’ve described to NASA their estimates of the demand for their stations after NASA proposed a change in strategy for its Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations, or CLD, program.
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Taiwan’s space agency chief has called on other countries to band together on a shared communications constellation to match the scale and growing strategic importance of networks like U.S.-based Starlink.
Commercial satellite operator PlanetiQ will develop and launch spacecraft equipped with next-generation instruments to gather terrestrial and space weather data with a $15 million U.S. Air Force Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract announced April 16. |
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Boeing announced it has developed a mid-sized, or “micro GEO,” satellite platform for military and commercial customers that combines Boeing’s payload technology with Millennium Space Systems’s faster production model.
Aethero is preparing to deploy its most powerful computing payload yet this fall, aiming to bring data center-style processing to orbit and expand the scale of AI workloads that can be handled in space.
All Points Logistics has signed an agreement with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to construct two satellite processing facilities on center property. |
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The Space Development Agency, created to rapidly field a low Earth orbit satellite network for the military, is poised to be folded into a broader reorganization of Space Force acquisition offices.
Early-stage space investor Seraphim Space has formed a global advisory council of industry, policy and investment leaders to inform its long-term strategy as geopolitical and technology advances rapidly reshape the sector.
The Space Weather Prediction Center is working to improve solar weather forecasting technology, enabling greater safety measures for human crews and satellites in orbit.
Two new proposed NASA Earth science missions, EAGLE and FALCON, will attempt to address key research topics while leveraging both commercial and exploration capabilities.
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In the latest episode of Space Minds, recorded at Space Symposium, Mike Gruss talks with AE Industrial's Alyssa Goessler on what’s driving the optimism in the space economy. They discuss the rigor needed in evaluating companies, the new role for investors in government acquisition and what to watch for in the next 12 months. Watch now. |
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