Catch up on commentary from this month's SpaceNews Magazine
By Dan Robitzski
Welcome back to our weekly newsletter highlighting the opinions and perspectives of the SpaceNews community. This week's edition includes commentary from our latest magazine issue.
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Last month, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars. The robotic mission was the first fully successful Mars landing and, as SpaceNews' Jeff Foust wrote in a column, the last NASA Mars mission for a generation.
"Some in the Mars science community worry NASA is in danger of another gap in Red Planet exploration. The cancellation of Mars Sample Return (MSR) has put the future of Mars exploration into question as NASA increasingly focuses on the moon. The Perseverance rover continues to collect samples despite uncertainty about when, or even if, they will be returned."
Read the rest of the Foust Forward column here. |
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More companies are staking claims for nongeostationary orbit communications constellations. And while the Federal Communications Commission generally puts newcomers and established companies on equal footing for spectrum allocation, newer companies will face an uphill battle, SpaceNews' Jason Rainbow wrote.
Some companies may establish businesses by finding and defending niches that hyperscalers like SpaceX haven't entered, Rainbow wrote, but there would be little preventing those larger firms from eating their lunch.
Instead, startups may find more success by complementing rather than directly competing with the much larger, established companies.
Read the full Connecting the Dots column here. |
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The United States military is increasingly interested in in-space propulsion. And that interest, SpaceNews' Sandra Erwin wrote in a column, is driving new technology investment from startups and established spacecraft manufacturers alike.
"It’s clear that propulsion has become more strategically important to the satellite market. But like other broad ideas and concepts, it remains to be seen how dynamic operations will shake out. For example, how will the Space Force cover the idea into specific requirements? And which technologies will gain broader adoption?"
Read the full On National Security column here.
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