Plus: New incentives for signing the Artemis Accords
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OUR TOP STORY
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By Jeff Foust NASA is making faster progress preparing the Space Launch System and Orion for Artemis 3 than on prior missions, in part by taking some work in-house.
In a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress on Oct. 5, Jeremy Parsons, NASA Artemis program manager, said preparations for the next SLS/Orion flight were going much faster.
“As we turn around now to go straight into Artemis 3, we’re seeing about double the speed from what we saw on Artemis 2,” he said. “We’re getting a lot better and we’re moving very quickly.”
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CIVIL
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NASA is offering countries that sign the Artemis Accords an opportunity to participate in the agency’s lunar base plans as well as in a proposed space academy. While the Artemis Accords started six years ago to focus on best practices, the United States has increasingly sought to use the accords as a vehicle for cooperation and incentives.
The Federal Communications Commission announced plans Oct. 7 to make more wireless spectrum available for direct-to-device services, a day after authorizing SpaceX to deploy 15,000 next-gen D2D satellites for its Starlink Mobile constellation.
A European Space Agency study has found it is technically and financially feasible for Europe to pursue development of a heavy-lift reusable rocket.
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MILITARY
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Some U.S. military aircraft and ground vehicles may not be fully equipped with modernized navigation systems until the 2040s or later, a government watchdog said Oct. 7.
HawkEye 360 says it has demonstrated that commercial satellites built to monitor radio-frequency signals on Earth can be retasked to detect and identify transmissions from other spacecraft, potentially giving the U.S. Space Force another way to determine what satellites are doing in orbit.
More than 90 business executives, elected officials and civic leaders from Colorado Springs traveled to Huntsville this week for meetings with local officials and defense companies in a show of cooperation between two communities that competed fiercely over one of the Pentagon’s most contentious basing decisions.
York Space satellites cleared for Space Force GEO tracking mission Two small satellites York Space Systems built for the U.S. Space Force, Tetra 3 and 4, will be used to detect, track and maneuver near other objects in geosynchronous orbit. |
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COMMERCIAL
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Fortastra, a Los Angeles startup developing maneuverable spacecraft for on-orbit security, raised $30 million in a Series A investment round announced Oct. 8.
Axiom Space expects to hear from NASA soon on the configuration for a simplified spacesuit the company will develop for the initial Artemis lunar landing missions. Axiom is working on the full-scale AxEMU in parallel with the new Sortie suit
BlackSky Technology announced a six-figure pilot contract with an international intelligence agency to provide global, on-demand, high-resolution imagery. |
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