tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62320454197637561932024-03-28T05:59:44.733-07:00Astronomy Prints 🌌General Astronomyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07038817360831926345noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232045419763756193.post-50947021108127270792024-03-28T05:59:00.001-07:002024-03-28T05:59:12.637-07:00Above-Average Intelligence 👀<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;">Vast differences • ESA eyes closer cooperation with India • SLIM defies the odds</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;"> 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#2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The general in charge of the Space Force says that U.S. intelligence about space activities is good but could be better.</a> Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said at the Mitchell Institute's Space Security Forum Wednesday that he has robust intelligence about what foreign adversaries are doing in outer space. However, he said having additional sensors and analytics tools would further boost the Space Force's visibility into technologies being tested by strategic competitors like China and Russia. "You can never have too much space domain awareness," Saltzman said, including data from international partners and the private sector. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=ba8f0f9c5a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">ESA is studying options for increased cooperation with the Indian space agency ISRO.</a> At a briefing Wednesday after an ESA Council meeting, agency officials said they received a presentation from the chairman of ISRO, S. Somanath, at their meeting to get an update on Indian space activities. ESA said the agency has been exploring options of enhanced cooperation in science, exploration and operations since late 2022, but has not disclosed any specific options under consideration. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=1836a58571&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China is signing new partners for a proposed international lunar base but is struggling to find national-level support.</a> China's Deep Space Exploration Laboratory signed memoranda of understanding this month with the Asociación de Astronomía de Colombia and Kyrgyzstan's Arabaev Kyrgyz State University regarding potential cooperation on the International Lunar Research Station. The agreements with organizations and universities may reflect difficulties China is having getting support from national governments, perhaps because of Russia's involvement with the initiative. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=ab94bac905&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">One commercial space station company has hired a former executive from another such company.</a> Vast has hired Clay Mowry as an adviser to provide guidance and counsel as it develops its Haven-1 commercial station and future larger stations. Mowry was previously chief revenue officer at Voyager Space, which is working on the Starlab commercial space station, and earlier held positions at Blue Origin and Arianespace. Separately, a former Vast employee filed suit in a California court this week, alleging he was fired from the company last year after raising concerns that the company was violating FCC regulations for spectrum it plans to use for Haven-1. Vast denied the claims and says it will fight the suit in court. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=54f48baa38&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Sierra Space has hired a new chief operating officer.</a> The company announced Thursday that it hired Amish Patel as COO to oversee company operations, including its supply chain and manufacturing. Patel was previously vice president of global supply chain at Rocket Lab and also worked at SpaceX and L3Harris. 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In fact, our technology has been part of every crewed NASA mission: from Project Mercury to Apollo to the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station era and now beyond – as part of NASA's Artemis campaign. L3Harris' contributions to NASA's Artemis missions include propulsion, communications and launch avionics for NASA's Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway lunar space station. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=86deb71b96&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e1d15a0dd4&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The final launch in the decades-long history of the Delta rocket is scheduled for today, weather permitting.</a> A Delta 4 Heavy is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral at 1:40 p.m. Eastern carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Forecasts, though, predict only a 30% chance of acceptable weather because of strong winds. The launch will be the last not just for the Delta 4 Heavy but the entire Delta family of rockets, dating back more than six decades. [Spaceflight Now]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=dd72cf77a7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Japan's SLIM lunar lander continues to defy the odds.</a> The lander has survived a second lunar night and is transmitting data again, the Japanese space agency JAXA announced Thursday. SLIM landed in January and the solar-powered spacecraft was not designed to survive the lunar night. However, SLIM revived in late Feburary and sent data for several data before going back into hibernation for a second night. [Japan Times]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5831b2aa16&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A mission designed to study the sun has now discovered 5,000 comets.</a> An amateur scientist studying images from the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected the milestone comet earlier this week. SOHO launched in 1995 to study the sun, but it has also been able to discover "sungrazer" comets that pass close to the sun that cannot otherwise be seen. Such comets often do not survive their close passages to the sun. [NASA]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d447deb6a4&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Astronomers have obtained a new view of the supermassive back hole at the center of our galaxy. </a>The Event Horizon Telescope, a globe-spanning network of observatories, created the image of the black hole called Sagittarius A* in polarized light. That view shows magnetic field lines around the black hole, about 4.3 million times the mass of the sun, and reveals structures similar to the far larger black hole at the core of the galaxy M87. Astronomers said the image of Sagittarius A* suggests it may be ejecting a jet of material not previously seen, based on its similarities to the black hole in M87. 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style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A mission next year will attempt to service a military satellite in geostationary orbit.</a> The mission, overseen by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), will use the Mission Robotics Vehicle being developed by Northrop Grumman's subsidiary SpaceLogistics. That spacecraft will approach a military satellite and use robotic arms to install a camera built by Katalyst Space Technologies on the satellite's launch adapter ring. The mission is part of DIU's Modularity for Space Systems project, an effort to match commercial technologies with military needs for in-orbit services. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=696dcaf71d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China launched another military weather satellite late Tuesday.</a> A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 6:51 p.m. Eastern and deployed the Yunhai-3 (02) satellite. The Yunhai series are assessed to be military meteorological satellites by some Western analysts. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=24bfcde1b8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Startup In Orbit Aerospace has won an AFWERX contract to develop spacecraft docking technologies.</a> The electrostatic adhesion technology being developing under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract, in cooperation with the University of Colorado, will enable In Orbit's vehicles to dock with one another and could also be used for docking with other cooperative or uncooperative objects for refueling, debris removal or other services. In Orbit was founded in 2020 to offer third-party logistics and infrastructure for in-space manufacturing and research, and has plans to develop vehicles for transporting cargo to and from future commercial space stations. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a5e770711d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Astrobotic has hired several industry veterans to help the company as it develops a second, larger lunar lander.</a> The company announced it hired Steve Clarke, a former NASA official, as its vice president of landers and spacecraft and Frank Peri, former head of the safety and mission assurance office at NASA Langley, as director of engineering. Two former NASA associate administrators for space technology, Mike Gazarik and Jim Reuter, will serve as advisers. Astrobotic says it expects to wrap up the investigation into its Peregrine lander mission in a matter of weeks and will apply lessons learned from that for its larger Griffin lander, which will carry NASA's VIPER lunar rover. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a80a55da8e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Chinese scientists want more missions to asteroids, including those that can return samples.</a> In a recently published journal paper, the scientists advocated for "low-cost, high-frequency sample return missions" and better coordination among missions. China is scheduled to launch its first asteroid sample return mission in 2025. The Tianwen-2 mission will target near-Earth object (NEO) 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, collecting samples and returning to Earth around 2.5 years after launch. Scientists, though, argue that asteroid missions don't get the same level of support as China's lunar exploration program. 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In fact, our technology has been part of every crewed NASA mission: from Project Mercury to Apollo to the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station era and now beyond – as part of NASA's Artemis campaign. L3Harris' contributions to NASA's Artemis missions include propulsion, communications and launch avionics for NASA's Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway lunar space station. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=54b7384829&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b5bc0262da&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A NASA official was optimistic that a computer problem with the Voyager 1 spacecraft can be fixed.</a> Speaking at a National Academies committee meeting last week, Joseph Westlake, director of NASA's heliophysics division, said he believed the project was on "a path now to resolution" regarding the faulty flight data system (FDS) computer on the nearly 50-year-old spacecraft. A problem with the FDS has caused Voyager 1 to transmit unusable data since last November. Westlake said engineers have concluded a memory unit on the spacecraft has failed, and engineers are working to move flight software in that section of memory to another part of the computer. He did not estimate how long that would take. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5a14f553eb&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The governor of Texas has named members of a new space commission.</a> Gov. Greg Abbott announced the members of the new Texas Space Commission Tuesday at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The members are executives with several established and emerging space companies as well as representatives from other businesses and from academia. The state legislature established the commission last year and provided it with $350 million in funding, $200 million of which will go to a new research and training center to be created by Texas A&M University. Commission members will study how to use the funding to support businesses and provide workforce training. [Houston Chronicle]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=36e1952ae4&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The launch of a NOAA weather satellite has been rescheduled for late June.</a> NASA and NOAA announced Tuesday that the Falcon Heavy launch of the GOES-U geostationary orbit weather satellite is planned for June 25. The launch had been scheduled for late April but was postponed after SpaceX found a liquid oxygen leak in the rocket's center core booster. GOES-U is the fourth and final satellite in the GOES-R program. [NOAA]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=4c6d0d6acb&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA has selected three instruments to be flown on future Artemis lunar landing missions.</a> NASA announced Tuesday it will fund development of a seismometer suite, a crop growth experiment and regolith instrument that would be deployed by astronauts on the Artemis 3 mission, although NASA said that final decisions about when the instruments would be manifested for flight will be made later. NASA said the instruments are the first step in the agency's response to a report on high-priority science that should be conducted on Artemis 3. [NASA]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5abfee11b5&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Japanese astronaut is retiring after more than three decades of service.</a> Koichi Wakata will retire from JAXA at the end of the month, which also marks the end of the current Japanese government fiscal year. He was selected by Japan as an astronaut in 1992 and has flown to space five times, including three long-duration missions to the International Space Station. He most recently was on the Crew-5 Crew Dragon mission in 2022-23; his previous flights were on the shuttle and Soyuz. 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Stephen Whiting said last week. </span></a></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">GEO is a critical orbital perch for the nation's most important military and intelligence spacecraft, and more surveillance assets are needed in that region of space, he said. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">U.S. Space Command, based in Colorado Springs, is responsible for military operations in the space domain.</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The U.S. Space Force is modernizing ground-based sensors and acquiring a network of </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6eb09aecd6&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">deep space radar</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px">.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">But ground sensors are limited by distance and weather so the Space Force and the intelligence community are deploying more surveillance satellites to keep a closer eye on potential threats such as anti-satellite weapons. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The Space Force is eyeing a new constellation of geostationary satellites with imaging capabilities similar to those currently provided by the </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=aeb0b3c6af&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> satellites, or GSSAP. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The Space Systems Command </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=78035d1ec0&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">recently issued a request for information</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> for industry capabilities to develop GSSAP-like satellites capable of detecting, tracking and characterizing objects operating in and around the GEO belt.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">These future satellites would be outfitted with electro-optical sensors and would be capable of conducting rendezvous and proximity operations. The Space Force also wants them to be refueled in orbit.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><img data-block-id="622" width="660" height="auto" style="width:660px;height:auto;max-width:964px !important;display:block" alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/2c7a319c-aeb7-55f2-eafa-102f5bab7a90.jpeg" role="presentation" class="imageDropZone mceImage" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="614" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-614" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Whiting on March 21</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee's strategic forces subcommittee and revealed the command submitted a $1.2 billion list of so-called "unfunded requirements" that were not included in the recently submitted </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=0af5474e81&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">2025 defense budget.</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> The Space Force </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c1de600768&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px">submitted a separate $1.1 billion list</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> of unfunded priorities. </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Most of the items on the lists are classified programs. Whiting said that, broadly speaking, the unfunded needs are for technologies for "space control" and "space superiority." </span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Space control refers to the ability to guarantee the unhindered use of space for U.S. and allied operations, while also being able to deny an enemy the same freedom. It's about ensuring U.S. satellites and other space assets can function without disruption.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Space superiority is having the ability to conduct operations freely and anywhere without any significant interference from an opponent, similar to air supremacy in aviation.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Space Command's key focus is on preventing enemies from disrupting U.S. space operations. This is crucial for national security as many critical functions rely on space-based systems like GPS and communication satellites.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><img data-block-id="625" width="564" height="auto" style="width:564px;height:auto;max-width:1318px !important;display:block" alt="Redwire Illustration / SabreSat " src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/d867fbb8-3338-7d69-8e5d-ac5a7e806906.jpg" class="mceImage" /></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="624" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-624" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Redwire eyes defense market </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px">with a low-orbiting satellite. The company is developing a new satellite called SabreSat designed to operate in very low Earth orbit (VLEO), an increasingly important regime for defense and intelligence applications that demand reduced communications lag and enhanced imagery. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Dean Bellamy, Redwire's executive vice president for national security space, said last week at the Satellite 2024 conference that the company sees growing opportunities in VLEO, where satellites face challenges like increased atmospheric drag that few existing spacecraft were designed to handle, </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><span style="font-size: 14px">The company announced the new satellite during an </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9b64d6483d&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">earnings 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billion and Space Command's $1.2 billion lists did not make it into the fiscal year 2025 budget proposal the Pentagon submitted to Congress on March 11, which included $29.4 billion for the Space Force. The vast majority of the funds requested are for classified programs aimed at space control, space superiority and space domain awareness, broad categories of technologies sought by the military to protect U.S. assets in orbit from anti-satellite weapons being developed by China and Russia. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=1556eb83b2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Boeing and a subsidiary have filed suit against Virgin Galactic over work on a new "mothership" aircraft project.</a> In the suit, Boeing and Aurora Flight Sciences allege that Virgin Galactic has failed to pay more than $26 million in invoices under a contract announced in 2022 to develop an aircraft that would serve as the air-launch platform for Virgin's suborbital spaceplanes, replacing the current aircraft called VMS Eve. Boeing and Aurora also claim that Virgin has failed to destroy proprietary documents linked to that project that include trade secrets, some of which were provided inadvertently. Virgin Galactic denies the allegations. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6ef0c9ccb2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Ingersoll Rand is acquiring spacesuit developer ILC Dover.</a> The companies announced Monday that Ingersoll Rand would acquire ILC Dover for $2.325 billion in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. Most of ILC Dover's business is in pharmaceutical and life sciences, but the company is known in the space business for developing spacesuits going back to the Apollo program as well as inflatable structures. The announcement did not disclose what changes, if any, would come to ILC Dover's space work. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=0c8f3f943e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is trying to demystify military space acquisitions.</a> AIA released an infographic Monday describing the roles played by 15 organizations in the Space Force, Defense Department and intelligence community in acquiring space capabilities. AIA said it developed the infographic because it regularly receives inquiries from people struggling to understand the bureaucratic labyrinth of military space acquisition. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3e29926113&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Boeing corporate leadership shakeup is not likely to have near-term effects on its space business.</a> Boeing announced Monday that its current CEO, Dave Calhoun, will retire at the end of the year. The chair of the company's board, Larry Kellner, is also stepping down and will be replaced by Steve Mollenkopf, who will lead the effort to hire a new CEO. The moves were prompted by continued difficulties with the company's commercial aviation business, with the head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stan Deal, also retiring. None of the changes appear to have an immediate impact on the company's defense and space unit. 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In fact, our technology has been part of every crewed NASA mission: from Project Mercury to Apollo to the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station era and now beyond – as part of NASA's Artemis campaign. L3Harris' contributions to NASA's Artemis missions include propulsion, communications and launch avionics for NASA's Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway lunar space station. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=995f7944dc&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8faf745741&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX launched — you guessed it — another set of Starlink satellites Monday evening.</a> A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 7:42 p.m. Eastern and placed 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. Nineteen of SpaceX's 29 Falcon 9 launches so far this year have been Starlink missions. [Spaceflight Now]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b2c9b8dc88&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Monday.</a> The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft docked with the station's Prichal module at 11:03 a.m. Eastern, a little more than two days after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch was postponed two days after a last-second scrub linked to a low voltage reading in the rocket's first stage. The Soyuz delivered NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Marina Vasilevskaya, a spaceflight participant from Belarus, to the station. Dyson will stay on the station for six months while Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will return at the end of next week with NASA's Loral O'Hara on Soyuz MS-24. [CBS]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a94a07eb2f&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Apex says it has successfully commissioned the first payload on its inaugural Aries satellite and has the pics to prove it.</a> The company released Monday an image taken by the spacecraft, showing part of the spacecraft with the Earth in the background. Apex launched the spacecraft three weeks ago on the Transporter-10 rideshare mission to demonstrate its capabilities, with payloads from several undisclosed customers on board. Apex was one of several companies to fly their first spacecraft on Transporter-10, with others still working through the commissioning process. One, True Anomaly, said last week it ran into problems with its first two Jackal spacecraft that will prevent the company from testing rendezvous and proximity operations as intended. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=38e60d0a24&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A startup has pans to send a mission to a near Earth asteroid.</a> ExLabs said it is planning to launch a mission to the asteroid Apophis in 2028, a year before that asteroid makes a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth. The mission would place three cubesats into orbit around the asteroid to demonstrate technologies for future space resources and other in-space missions. ExLabs did not disclose the cost of the mission or how it would be funded. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=aee3350a4b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">George Abbey, former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, has died at the age of 91.</a> Abbey joined NASA in the mid-1960s and later became director of flight operations, selecting astronauts for shuttle missions. After a stint at NASA Headquarters, he returned to JSC, serving as director from 1996 to 2001. He retired from NASA in 2003 and worked on space policy issues at Rice University. 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style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7ba917496f&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">AT&T is willing to invest more money into AST SpaceMobile to support its direct-to-device satellite constellation.</a> AST SpaceMobile raised $155 million from AT&T and other investors in January, but the satellite operator needs more capital to develop its constellation. Chris Sambar, head of network at AT&T, said at Satellite 2024 last week that its investment in AST SpaceMobile is unlikely to be its last. AT&T has also spent a "significant amount of lobbying capital" to help get the regulatory permission AST SpaceMobile would also need to provide commercial services in the United States. AST SpaceMobile has one prototype satellite in orbit and plans to launch its first five commercial satellites in the coming months. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e47ae96d36&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The launch of a joint U.S.-Indian radar imaging mission will slip to later this year because of modifications needed to its antenna.</a> NASA said Friday that engineers concluded that the NISAR spacecraft's deployable antenna needs a reflective coating because of temperatures higher than anticipated while in its stowed configuration. That requires shipping the antenna, currently with the rest of the spacecraft in India, to the United States to apply the coating. NASA said it expects to be able to announce a new launch date for NISAR, which had been slated to launch this spring, by the end of April. NISAR carries L- and S-band radars to conduct synthetic aperture radar imaging for many Earth science applications. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7b78a48f69&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Companies operating imaging spacecraft may be able to support the military's needs to track the movement of troops and vehicles on the ground.</a> The U.S. Air Force and the Space Force are working with the National Reconnaissance Office to develop a dedicated constellation of sensor satellites specifically designed for Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI). Companies, though, note that their spacecraft can also provide information to support GMTI, such as general monitoring of areas of interest and tracking of slower-moving targets and patterns of life. They argued that a hybrid approach leveraging commercial and dedicated military systems could provide a "best of both worlds" solution at a lower cost to taxpayers. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=4941744490&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China's Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite entered lunar orbit on Sunday.</a> Queqiao-2 began a 19-minute-long braking burn at 12:46 p.m. Eastern , allowing the spacecraft to be captured by the moon's gravity, the China National Space Administration announced early Monday. The spacecraft will maneuver into an elliptical orbit of 200 by 16,000 kilometers to provide relay services for missions like the Chang'e-6 farside lunar sample return mission, expected to launch in May. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=28f9811a03&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China is developing technologies and methodologies for in-space refueling of spacecraft.</a> The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is already integrating lessons learned into military doctrine and training tools, while a defense contractor has already demonstrated what it calls a space fuel tanker in GEO, according to a recent report by the China Aerospace Studies Institute. The report underlines that the PLA has a strategic focus on enhancing its on-orbit logistics capabilities and is integrating commercial enterprises into the space sector. Several companies in China are working on satellite servicing technologies, with China's Ministry of Science and Technology having included on-orbit servicing in its technology development plans since 2016. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=828c0e4989&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA and Boeing are targeting May 1 for the launch of the first crewed Starliner flight.</a> At briefings Friday, officials said preparations for the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission are going well, with the schedule of other spacecraft visiting the ISS the key factor driving the launch date. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly on CFT, spending eight days at the International Space Station. The astronauts called the mission "a test pilot's dream" as they check out the spacecraft's capabilities, such as manual flight modes. A successful flight would allow NASA to certify the spacecraft late this year, in time for the first operational mission to the station in early 2025. 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In fact, our technology has been part of every crewed NASA mission: from Project Mercury to Apollo to the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station era and now beyond – as part of NASA's Artemis campaign. L3Harris' contributions to NASA's Artemis missions include propulsion, communications and launch avionics for NASA's Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway lunar space station. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=233d054d60&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=de267e6400&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Soyuz spacecraft is on its way to the ISS after launch Saturday.</a> A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off at 8:36 a.m. Eastern and placed the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft into orbit. The spacecraft, carrying a crew from Russia, the U.S. and Belarus, will dock with the station at 11:09 a.m. Eastern this morning. The original launch attempt Thursday was scrubbed by a low-voltage reading in the rocket's first stage. Saturday's launch took place a little more than an hour after a Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched Thursday, docked with the station. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=89e2374439&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Falcon 9 launched a set of Starlink satellites Saturday night.</a> The Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:09 p.m. Eastern after a one-day delay caused by poor weather at Cape Canaveral, deploying 23 Starlink satellites. The Falcon 9 booster used for the flight completed its 19th launch, becoming the second active booster, and third overall, to reach that milestone, a record for the company. [Spaceflight Now]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=029f3ff0ce&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A House hearing last week noted that the problems faced by NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program are not new.</a> During the House Science Committee hearing, witnesses stated that NASA has a long record of cost overruns and schedule delays for flagship missions, which can be blamed in part on a "culture of optimism" that causes the agency to underestimate challenges faced by complex missions. NASA is making progress incorporating lessons learned from past programs but has more work to do, they said. Most of the hearing was devoted to discussing MSR, including criticism by one member, Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), that NASA erred in reducing spending on the program during a continuing resolution because of budget uncertainty. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c3a6df8837&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Astronomers and companies developing satellite constellations are making progress in addressing the impacts of those systems.</a> Astronomers raised the alarm nearly five years ago when SpaceX started launching Starlink satellites whose brightness threatened to interfere with astronomical observations. At a conference earlier this year, astronomers said they have made progress collaborating with SpaceX and other companies on ways to mitigate their brightness. They also pointed to international efforts at the ITU and UN's COPUOS to study satellite effects on both radio and optical astronomy. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=40ea9a6c00&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Aerospace Corporation is moving its headquarters from Southern California to the Washington, D.C. area.</a> Aerospace announced last week it would relocate its headquarters from the Los Angeles suburb of El Segundo to Chantilly, Virginia, so that it can "deepen our ties with key decision makers and stakeholders." That shift will not involve any "significant relocation" of government employees, and Aerospace plans to invest $100 million in its El Segundo campus, modernizing facilities that date back in some cases to the 1960s. [Los Angeles Times]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=ecbbda8a37&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The U.K. Space Agency is opening new offices across the country.</a> The agency said Monday it will open a new headquarters in June at the Harwell Science Campus as well as regional offices in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Leicester. The new offices are intended to help the agency better work with companies across the country. [BBC]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f1ac3a69df&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Intuitive Machines has ended efforts to restore contact with its IM-1 lunar lander.</a> The company started efforts last week to contact the lander after the extended lunar night in the hopes that the spacecraft might have survived the cold conditions. On Saturday, the company said it had not made contact with the lander and concluded that the lander was unable to revive itself. The company has stated that it was highly improbable that the lander would be able to handle the cold conditions since it lacked any way to keep critical electronics warm. 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<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">The Week Ahead</h2> <br> <strong>Monday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> The <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d174aecb3d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA Advisory Council's science committee meets</a> for a discussion on NASA's science budget and other committee reports.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>International Space Station: </strong>Scheduled docking of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with the station's Prichal module at 11:09 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Cape Canaveral, Fla.:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites at 5 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Monday-Wednesday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Luxembourg/Online: </strong>The <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d320f7b3a7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space Resources Week 2024</a> conference includes sessions on various technical, economic and policy issues regarding space resource utilization.</li> </ul> <strong>Tuesday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> NOAA's <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=19be55d418&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space Weather Advisory Group meets</a> to discuss a user needs survey and other topics.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5ab184244a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Terran Orbital releases its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results</a> and holds an earnings call at 11 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Taiyuan, China:</strong> Projected launch of a Long March 6C carrying an unidentified payload at 7:10 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Wednesday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2b9289201e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Sidus Space releases its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results</a> and holds an earnings call at 9 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Arlington, Va.: </strong>The <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=21db6b8a3e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Third Annual Spacepower Security Forum</a> by the Mitchell Institute will examine issues associated with national security space.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif.:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites at 10:30 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Thursday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Cape Canaveral, Fla.:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Delta 4 Heavy on the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office at 1:40 p.m. Eastern. This will be the final launch of any Delta rocket.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c15d3cebc1&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Planet releases its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial results</a> and holds an earnings call at 5 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Friday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Cape Canaveral, Fla.: </strong>Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites at 5 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Saturday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Baikonur, Kazakhstan:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Resurs-P No. 4 remote sensing satellite at 5:36 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Kennedy Space Center, Fla.:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying the Eutelsat 36D communications satellite at 6 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: 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SATELLITE 2024, Starship and Starlink dominated discussions. Starship's third test flight impressed many but also sparked concerns about SpaceX's potential monopoly over launch services. Elsewhere, budget news, a Cargo Dragon mission to the Space Station and more.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="44"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="45" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-45" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">Our Top Story</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="46" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-46" style="width:100%"><h1 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e6b265dc57&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Starship could have a big impact on small launch vehicles</span></strong></a></h1></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=51083f41eb&e=21437e418b" style="display:block" target="_blank" data-block-id="6"><img width="564" height="auto" style="border:0;width:564px;height:auto;max-width:5041px !important;display:block" alt="SATELLITE 2024 conference panel" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/48c0792f-5b1b-4a7d-70de-f9c4fb57d8d8.jpg" class="mceImage" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="47" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-47" style="width:100%"><p class="last-child"><em>Jeff Foust, March 21, 2024</em></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="48" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-48" style="width:100%"><p>WASHINGTON — A large launch vehicle could end up having a big effect on the small launch vehicle market through low prices and encouraging customers to build larger satellites.</p><p><br /></p><p>The emergence of SpaceX's Starship vehicle, which is designed to place 100 metric tons or more into low Earth orbit, has captured the attention of companies developing vehicles that can place one metric ton or less into orbit because of Starship's potential to further reshape a market already affected by the company's Falcon 9.</p><p><br /></p><p class="last-child">"Starship for sure will disrupt further the launch business and the space business in general," said Marino Fragnito, senior vice president and head of the Vega business unit at Arianespace, during a panel at the Satellite 2024 conference March 20. "One scenario is that [SpaceX Chief Executive Elon] Musk could really monopolize everything."</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="52" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-52" style="width:100%"><h1 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">Other News From the Week</h1></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="51"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="54" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-54" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">MORE FROM SATELLITE 2024</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="58" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-58" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=94df2f7443&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Satellite manufacturers defend diminished GEO market</strong></a></p><p>Manufacturers of traditional geostationary communications satellites insist demand for their products is not going away thanks to technological advances and interest in multi-orbit solutions.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=88bf40a734&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>GEO operators look to local service providers to compete against Starlink</strong></a><br />Geostationary satellite operators say local service providers in hard-to-reach connectivity markets are helping them counter competition from SpaceX's Starlink low Earth orbit network in Latin America.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e956116c37&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>SpaceX planning rapid turnaround for next Starship flight</strong></a><br />SpaceX hopes to conduct the next launch of its Starship vehicle as soon as early May, a schedule that will depend on how quickly it can get an amended launch license. Speaking at the Satellite 2024 conference March 19, Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, said the company was still reviewing the data from the vehicle's third integrated launch March 14 but expected to be ready to fly again soon.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d68319afde&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Launch providers look for competitive advantages in era of transition</strong></a></p><p class="last-child">The launch industry is negotiating a transition into new families of launch vehicles, working to bring additional capacity into the market while seeking out competitive advantages against a growing number of competitors. A panel at the Satellite 2024 conference March 18 features two companies that recently completed the first successful launches of new vehicles and four others working on new launch vehicles, in some cases while operating existing ones.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="60"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="55" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-55" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">LAUNCH</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="59" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-59" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9f422ebf39&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Cargo Dragon launches to space station hours after Soyuz scrub</strong></a></p><p>A cargo spacecraft launched towards the International Space Station March 21, hours after a rare last-minute abort of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launch to the station. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40 at 4:55 p.m. Eastern. The rocket's payload, a cargo Dragon spacecraft, deployed from the Falcon's upper stage 12 minutes after liftoff.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=feaa1df5b2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Electron launches NRO mission from Wallops</strong></a></p><p class="last-child">Rocket Lab launched a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Virginia March 21, the company's second launch in as many weeks.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="61"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="56" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-56" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">MILITARY</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="57" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-57" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=be596d0dcc&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Lawmakers cut $1 billion from Space Force's 2024 budget request</strong></a></p><p>The House and Senate Appropriations Committees early on March 21 unveiled a long-awaited fiscal year 2024 compromise spending package for government agencies, including $825 billion for the Defense Department. <br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9efe9379cc&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>U.S. military to boost surveillance assets in orbit</strong></a></p><p class="last-child">The U.S. military is looking to bolster its ability to detect and track potential threats in the geosynchronous equatorial orbit, a critical orbital perch for the nation's most important military and intelligence satellites.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="62"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c064f96c59&e=21437e418b" style="display:block" target="_blank" data-block-id="63"><img width="564" height="auto" style="border:0;width:564px;height:auto;max-width:1000px !important;display:block" alt="Webinar: Direct to Device Satellite Services" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/b6c4d04b-03ac-69a0-0310-bab768a674ae.png" class="mceImage" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#000000;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:48px;padding-left:48px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:#000000" role="presentation" data-block-id="33"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #ffffff" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px;padding-right:8px;padding-left:8px" class="mceLayoutContainer" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" data-block-id="38" id="section_ab532275b01696ae0455011dbf970fde" class="mceFooterSection"><tbody><tr class="mceRow"><td style="background-color:#ffffff;background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="12" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;margin-bottom:12px" class="mceColumn" data-block-id="-3" valign="top" colspan="12" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:16px;padding-left:16px" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><div data-block-id="36" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-36" style="display:inline-block;width:100%"><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px">Copyright (C) 2024 Multiverse Media Inc.. 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style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6bf40d7f38&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A final fiscal year 2024 spending bill would reduce the Space Force's budget by $1 billion relative to what it requested. </a>The bill, released early Thursday, would provide the service with $29 billion, about $1 billion less than what the Biden administration had requested but still some $2.7 billion more than Space Force received for 2023. The bill cuts the Space Force's procurement account request by $600 million and its research, development, testing and engineering account by $400 million. The bill, though, does increase funding for National Security Space Launch research and development as well as Tactically Responsive Space. A big winner in the 2024 defense bill is the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which gets a an $842 million increase. The House and Senate are expected to take up the bill today to avert a partial government shutdown. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6fe4486daa&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The head of U.S. Space Command says the military plans to improve its abilities to track objects in geosynchronous orbit.</a> With a growing need for better space domain awareness, the Pentagon wants additional satellites acting as eyes and ears in the GEO belt, Gen. Stephen Whiting said Thursday. The U.S. Space Force is modernizing ground-based sensors, such as a deep space radar, that are critical to monitoring the GEO belt. The Space Force and the intelligence community are also working on new surveillance satellites to keep a closer eye on potential threats such as anti-satellite weapons. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=de689a01b6&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The National Reconnaissance Office is seeking new technologies to support its launch operations.</a> The NRO's Office of Space Launch recently issued a Broad Area Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for its "Agile Launch Innovation and Strategic Technology Advancement" program. The BAA covers topics such as in-space mobility and refueling as well as artificial intelligence for ground operations. The BAA comes as <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a9a51b10a4&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">the NRO performed the final launch under a five-launch contract with Rocket Lab early Thursday</a>, putting payloads into orbit on a flight out of Wallops Island, Virginia. The launch was the fifth and last mission under a Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract between NRO and Rocket Lab, dating back to 2020. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b723466c83&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The DIU will study the potential use of an orbital transfer vehicle developed by Firefly Aerospace.</a> DIU awarded Firefly a study contract that, once complete, could lead to as many as two flight demonstration missions in cislunar space using Firefly's Elytra vehicle. The contract supports DIU's Sinequone project that aims to deliver cost effective, responsive access to cislunar space through both launch and orbital transfer services. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=679dcb2480&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Rivada Space Networks says a recent series of undersea internet cable cuts has bolstered interest in its satellite constellation.</a> Speaking at Satellite 2024 this week, Rivada CEO Declan Ganley claimed that enterprises have been flocking to the company to learn how its proposed constellation of up to 600 satellites could provide redundancy for their networks. While he said Rivada had MOUs worth more than $7 billion from potential customers, he provided few specifics on efforts by the company to finance that constellation. That constellation would be built by Terran Orbital, and Terran CEO Marc Bell said on the same panel that Rivada remains current on all invoices ahead of plans to deploy two or four prototype spacecraft before the end of the year. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e3d8e6c5ce&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Hanwha Phasor plans to release its first flat panel antenna this summer to join a wave of multi-orbit broadband terminals coming to the market.</a> The company's Phasor L3300B is designed to connect land vehicles for government and commercial users seeking connectivity from Ku-band satellites in GEO or LEO. Hybrid antennas promise customers greater network redundancy and the flexibility to access the strengths of various orbital regimes without the need for multiple terminals, making them particularly suitable for vehicles on the move. The company says it is talking with potential military customers across the United States, Europe and South Korea, and expects to start taking orders in the next three months. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=76e7e28282&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Intuitive Machines is looking ahead to its next lunar lander mission and other contracts.</a> The company reported Thursday an operating loss of $56.2 million in 2023, but said its cash balance grew since the start of the year from $4.5 million to $54.6 million after the exercise of stock warrants and other investments. The company is continuing to review data from the IM-1 lunar lander mission and says it still expects to launch IM-2 by the end of the year. Intuitive Machines is also looking to win additional business, such as upcoming NASA contracts for an Artemis lunar rover and cislunar communications services. 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L3Harris is answering the call with innovative, low-cost, highly-reliable, responsive launch solutions. L3Harris has supported more than 2,100 launches that have provided critical intelligence to the nation, sent spacecraft to every planet in the solar system and safely carried more than 380 astronauts to space. For more than 65 years, we've provided propulsion systems and avionics that have safely and reliably launched critical national security and defense payloads. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=065b299358&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>.</span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=38490ccb8a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft launched to the International Space Station hours after a rare scrub of a Soyuz crewed launch.</a> A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 4:55 p.m. Eastern Thursday and placed the CRS-30 Dragon into orbit. The Dragon, carrying more than 2,800 kilograms of cargo, is scheduled to dock with the ISS Saturday morning. The launch was the first to use a new crew tower at Space Launch Complex 40, which SpaceX built to provide a backup to Launch Complex 39A. Seven and a half hours earlier, a Soyuz rocket aborted its countdown just 20 seconds before liftoff at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was to send the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, carrying a NASA astronaut and Russian and Belarusian cosmonauts, to the station. A low voltage reading the rocket caused the scrub, delaying the launch to at least Saturday. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=34fececb71&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The small launch industry is wary of the impact SpaceX's Starship could have on them.</a> During a Satellite 2024 conference panel this week, industry executives said they thought Starship, with its potentially very low per-kilogram launch prices, might be able to launch smallsats with orbital transfer vehicles less expensively than dedicated small launch vehicles. Starship might also encourage satellite developers to make their satellites larger. Small launch companies remain concerned about the effect SpaceX's Transporter rideshare launches are having on them, but noted those missions have also stimulated interest in smallsats in general. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9fc5fdec36&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">India performed another landing test of a reusable launch vehicle prototype.</a> The RLV-LEX-02 vehicle, an unpowered winged vehicle, was dropped from a helicopter Friday from an altitude of 4,500 meters and glided to a runway landing. The vehicle is intended to test landing technologies that could be used on a future reusable launcher. [PTI]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7b4cf4323f&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">An Indian startup has postponed the launch of a suborbital vehicle.</a> Agnikul Cosmos has planned to launch its Sub Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) mission Friday from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, but called off the launch after "certain minor observations" in the vehicle during launch preparations, details of which the company did not disclose. Agnikul Cosmos did not disclose a new launch date. The SOrTeD mission is intended to test systems the company plans to use in the Agnibaan small launch vehicle it is developing. [Express News Service]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=843f2ed7f5&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A $100 million donation to Caltech will fund a new center to develop exploration technologies with a "SpaceX vibe."</a> Caltech said Thursday that the donation from financier Gary Brinson will allow it establish the Brinson Exploration Hub, which will focus on development of technologies for space and Earth applications. The center will take on a more iterative approach to technology development with a higher tolerance for risk. [Los Angeles Times]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f1610cd98a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Astronomers are meeting this week to find ways to preserve the far side of the moon for radio astronomy.</a> The meeting in Italy by the International Academy of Astronautics is intended to study how to keep the lunar farside, shielded from terrestrial radio emissions, radio-quiet as exploration of the moon increases. Astronomers want to preserve that environment to support future radio telescopes there that could better observe the universe. 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You can see they're catching air on some of the jumps. As they're coming around the corner here, they're going to hit one of these potholes and they're going to take a dive. We certainly don't encourage this sort of driving on the moon."<br> <br> – Andrew Sullivan, program director of SAIC, showing off a simulation of a lunar rover speeding on the moon during a session of the American Astronautical Society's Goddard Space Science Symposium on Thursday.<br> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" 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Exhibition</a> in Washington, D.C. In this final update, Arianespace senior vice president Marino Fragnito warns that Starship may give SpaceX a monopoly, Hanwha Phasor will soon release a multi-orbit terminal called the Phasor L3300B, Capella Space wants to expand around the world, and broader satellite news including Defense Innovation Unit contracts and more. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 4px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; 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While the U.S. government remains a key customer, Capella Space CEO Frank Backes said foreign governments are emerging as a significant driver of future growth.<br> <br> While the U.S. government has been Capella Space's biggest customer for its satellite imagery generated by SAR satellites, the government of Japan is now the company's second-largest customer for SAR data, Backes told SpaceNews. <br> <br> The company is also pursuing opportunities to build SAR satellites for the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Both nations are looking to purchase satellites that they can operate independently and integrate into their national space architectures. </div> <p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-eeb85ec4-7fff-0b56-cc11-b476358df5f6"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=369610cbb2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f884019982&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/a5cfa0a8-4600-35ae-b7ac-2c18df0af99e.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=34f290d2c9&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><span style="font-size:24px"><u>Defense Innovation Unit awards three contracts for space logistics technologies</u></span></font></a></h2> <em>By Sandra Erwin</em><br> <br> WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's commercial technology arm, the Defense Innovation Unit, announced March 20 it is funding three projects to explore ways to create a more robust space infrastructure that can support military operations beyond low Earth orbit.<br> <br> The projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Spacebilt. "Each of the companies selected for an award showed strong research and development investments into their particular solutions for use in the commercial market," said DIU.<br> <br> DIU is partnering with Blue Origin on a space mission called Dark-Sky 1 that will send to orbit a heavy multi-orbit space tug based on the company's Blue Ring platform. 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bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e9c733c4d8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>House advances four space-related bills</u></font></a></h2> <div><em>By Jeff Foust</em><br> </div> <div>WASHINGTON — The House Science Committee advanced four space-related bills March 20 addressing issues from commercial remote sensing to space resources.<br> <br> The committee advanced the bills by unanimous votes during the markup session that also considered four other bills on unrelated topics. The bills now go to the full House.<br> <br> H.R. 272, the Astronaut Safe Temporary Ride Options (ASTRO) Act, would formally authorize transportation for official duties for NASA astronauts once they return to Earth until they are medically cleared to drive. Currently, such transportation has to be approved on a case-by-case basis by the NASA administrator.</div> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=747a3f5874&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3af56b8875&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/6b55cc56-86ca-4aa5-95a0-b09b23c4f4aa.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6b433519c6&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>China launches second batch of Yunhai-2 satellites</u></font></a></h2> <div><em>By Andrew Jones</em><br> </div> <div>HELSINKI — China has launched a new batch of Yunhai-2 meteorological satellites likely for use by its military.<br> <br> A Long March 2D with a Yuanzheng-3 upper stage rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 1:27 a.m. Eastern (0527 UTC) March 21. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), confirmed launch success around three hours later, also revealing the payloads for the mission to be the Yunhai-2 (02) batch of satellites. <br> <br> The satellites were likely released into a series of orbits following a series of burns by the YZ-3 upper stage. 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style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=98f43aa30c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA is defending plans to reduce the budgets of two venerable space telescopes amid sharp criticism from the science community.</a> NASA's fiscal year 2025 budget proposal sought a 40% cut in the budget for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and a smaller reduction in the budget for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA officials said at an advisory committee meeting Wednesday that the agency's overall budget can no longer support funding those missions at existing levels. NASA is planning to convene a "mini senior review" that, by the end of May, will make recommendations on ways to cut back operations of the missions to fit within reduced funding levels, which would involve turning off some instruments. Astronomers, though, remain sharply critical of the proposal, particular its effects on Chandra, which some argue could lead to the telescope's shutdown and jeopardize X-ray astronomy in the U.S. in general. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=358e431f75&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is funding three projects by companies to explore in-space services.</a> DIU said this week it is funding projects by Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Spacebilt to explore ways to create a more robust space infrastructure that can support military operations beyond low Earth orbit. That includes DarkSky-1, a flight of Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital transfer vehicle, as soon as this summer. The other projects include refueling interfaces developed by Northrop's SpaceLogistics subsidiary on military spacecraft and studies of in-space assembly and manufacturing by Spacebilt, formerly known as Skycorp. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7fab171ecf&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Capella Space sees international governments as new customers for its radar imagery.</a> While the U.S. government remains a key customer, Capella Space CEO Frank Backes said at the Satellite 2024 conference Wednesday that foreign governments are emerging as a significant driver of future growth, with the Japanese government the company's second-biggest customer after the U.S. The company is also pursuing opportunities to build SAR satellites for the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Both nations are looking to purchase satellites that they can operate independently and integrate into their national space architectures. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=81476c8e7c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Lockheed Martin is seeking more commercial partnerships for its space business.</a> Robert Lightfoot, president of Lockheed Martin Space, said in an interview that his company is looking for strategic partners in areas such as intelligence and surveillance payloads, as well as communications payloads, as it looks to meet growing government demand for resilient space-based capabilities. A growing focus on partnerships represents a shift for Lockheed Martin, traditionally a prime contractor that mostly works with commercial entities acting as subcontractors on its projects, with Lightfoot noting that Lockheed is willing to play a supporting role on other companies' projects as well. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5e59ec9a3e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Small GEO satellite manufacturer Swissto12 is expanding production facilities.</a> The company announced plans this week to add 1,200 square meters of production space to an existing 4,500-square-meter site at its headquarters in Renens, Switzerland. The expansion will support the production of its dishwasher-sized HummingSat spacecraft and radio frequency subsystem products. The company has four of those spacecraft under construction for Intelsat and Viasat for launch in 2026. 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L3Harris is answering the call with innovative, low-cost, highly-reliable, responsive launch solutions. L3Harris has supported more than 2,100 launches that have provided critical intelligence to the nation, sent spacecraft to every planet in the solar system and safely carried more than 380 astronauts to space. For more than 65 years, we've provided propulsion systems and avionics that have safely and reliably launched critical national security and defense payloads. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5050c6c4e4&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>.</span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3faaf1aeeb&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Rocket Lab conducted an Electron launch for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) early Thursday.</a> The Electron rocket lifted off at 3:25 a.m. Eastern from Wallops Island, Virginia, on the NROL-123 mission for the NRO. The NRO did not disclose details about the mission other than it is "putting research missions into space." The launch was the second Electron flight in as many weeks and fourth Electron launch so far this year. [Rocket Lab]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8bbdca7ffe&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China launched a set of military weather satellites early Thursday.</a> A Long March 2D rocket launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 1:27 a.m. Eastern and deployed the Yunhai-2 02 group of satellites. The satellites are part of a system believed to be used by China's military for weather forecasting. [Xinhua]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=25836ea8a5&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The launch industry is continuing to negotiate a transition to new lines of launch vehicles.</a> A panel at the Satellite 2024 conference this week featured two companies that recently successfully launched new rockets, ULA's Vulcan Centaur and MHI's H3, and four other developing new rockets. Arianespace said on the panel it is still on track for a first Ariane 6 launch in the latter half of June. While the new vehicles are intended to address a lack of launch capacity on the market today, companies said they are also working to find ways to set themselves apart through customized services. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=72c2394e79&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The House Science Committee advanced four space-related bills Wednesday.</a> The committee favorably reported the legislation, along with four unrelated bills by unanimous votes. The four bills would provide transportation for NASA astronauts after they return from missions until they are medically cleared to drive, formally authorize a NASA commercial remote sensing data purchase program, allow NASA to jointly fund research with other agencies and have NASA study the development of a space resources institute. The bills now go to the full House. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=138ca43f6a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Space Force's long-awaited commercial space strategy is slated for release within a month.</a> Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael A. Guetlein said at an event Wednesday that the Commercial Space Strategy should be published "within the next month." That strategy will outline plans for a Commercial Augmented Space Reserve, an approach modeled on the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to guarantee the military access to commercial space capabilities during a conflict. 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In this update, Lockheed Martin put out a call for strategic partners that can help it maintain leadership in the satellite industry, Intelsat announced that it bought more LEO capacity from Eutelsat's OneWeb constellation to the tune of five times its previous usage, and more. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 4px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=850b1d2b4a&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/ddd39fab-cdc3-d8b6-8a2b-e7c92531ae46.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=da530446ff&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Lockheed Martin eyes growth in satellite business through partnerships</a><br> <em style="font-size:13px">By Sandra Erwin</em></h2> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin is looking to team up with more commercial space companies as it aims to stay ahead of the curve in areas like intelligence, surveillance, communications, and small satellites, a senior executive said March 19.<br> <br> "We're looking for strategic partners," said Robert Lightfoot, president of Lockheed Martin Space. "We're interested in talking with anyone who has an advantage in those areas from a space perspective."<br> <br> Lightfoot spoke with SpaceNews at the Satellite 2024 conference. The $67 billion aerospace and defense giant wants to work with commercial companies with expertise in intelligence and surveillance payloads, as well as communications payloads for satellites, as it looks to meet growing government demand for resilient space-based capabilities.</p> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=173eb7a0e8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a06d3691fb&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/62abeff3-7f1c-133d-da12-d19cf07769db.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b8dc246958&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>Intelsat expands OneWeb LEO partnership</u></font></a></h2> <em>By Jason Rainbow</em> <div><br> WASHINGTON — Geostationary satellite operator Intelsat has bought at least five times more capacity from Eutelsat's OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation to strengthen its multi-orbit broadband strategy.<br> <br> The companies announced March 19 that Intelsat has made a firm commitment to buy $250 million worth of LEO capacity over six years starting mid-2024. Intelsat also has the option to acquire an extra $250 million worth of capacity under their deal, which would extend the length of the contract by a year to 2031.<br> <br> The agreement marks a major step up from Intelsat's commitment in March 2023 to buy $45 million worth of LEO capacity, which has barely been put into service amid delays in fully deploying the ground infrastructure OneWeb needs to provide full coverage this year.</div> <p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-eeb85ec4-7fff-0b56-cc11-b476358df5f6"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=db80c379ea&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; 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"We've wrung out the Vulcan system and now our focus is getting up to a steady launch cadence."<br> </div> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=465654557c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" 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style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=bf386d4d1b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Intelsat has signed a deal to buy much more capacity on Eutelsat's OneWeb satellite constellation.</a> The companies announced Tuesday that Intelsat will buy $250 million of capacity on the constellation over six years, starting in the middle of this year, with an option to buy $250 million more. The agreement marks a major step up from Intelsat's commitment a year ago to buy $45 million worth of LEO capacity. Intelsat CEO David Wajsgras said demand has "changed significantly" in the last 18 months, prompting Intelsat to buy more capacity. While the initial agreement only covered Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, the expanded partnership is global, although Intelsat is focused on using that capacity primarily for aviation and government customers. The agreement also allows Intelsat to help shape Eutelsat's plans to begin replacing OneWeb satellites as they near the end of their design life late this decade. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2c139ead72&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China launched a lunar data relay satellite Tuesday night.</a> A Long March 8 rocket lifted off at 8:31 p.m. Eastern from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center and place the Queqiao-2 satellite on a trajectory to the moon. Queqiao-2 will go into an elliptical inclined orbit around the moon so it can relay communications from other lunar missions, such as the Chang'e-6 farside lunar sample return mission expected to launch in May. Chinese officials said that Queqiao-2 could be used by lunar missions from other countries as well. The launch also carried a pair of small experimental satellites named Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2 for navigation and communications technology verification. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2999bc4e78&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX says it could be ready to launch its next Starship mission in early May.</a> Speaking at the Satellite 2024 conference Tuesday, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the company was still analyzing data from last week's launch but that the company expected to "get back to flight hopefully in about six weeks." She added it was unlikely, as some had speculated, that the next Starship launch would carry Starlink satellites as the company focuses on trying to successfully bring back both the Starship vehicle and Super Heavy booster. That schedule will depend on the FAA approving a mishap report about last week's launch, but at a separate event Monday the head of the FAA's commercial space transportation office said he did not see "anything major" from a safety perspective that would slow that down. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5738dfa2e6&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is taking a larger role in supporting the Space Force's responsive launch efforts.</a> DIU, the Pentagon's outpost in Silicon Valley tasked with integrating commercial technologies into the military, is working with the Space Force's Space Safari office to identify and select commercial providers for an upcoming responsive mission named Victus Haze. That mission will follow the Victus Nox operation last September, where the Space Force was able to launch a small satellite made by Millennium Space on a Firefly rocket in a record-breaking 27 hours. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=79039210c3&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">ESA has awarded three contracts to develop advanced navigation satellite missions.</a> The awards, with a combined value of 233.4 million euros ($253 million), are part of the agency's FutureNAV program whose funding was oversubscribed at the 2022 ministerial conference. One contract will go to a consortium led by OHB Italia to develop Genesis, a spacecraft to improve the accuracy of the reference frame used for navigation and Earth science applications. Two others, one to GMV and OHB System and the other to Thales Alenia Space, will support LEO-PNT, an effort to demonstrate the feasibility of a low Earth orbit constellation to provide navigation services. The LEO-PNT satellites will launch by 2027 and Genesis in 2028. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7d0ebb00d1&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Blackwave, a German startup developing carbon fiber structures for space applications, has raised $6.6 million.</a> The company announced the seed extension round Tuesday led by Alpine Space Ventures. Blackwave, which has developed carbon fiber structures for other industries for several years, said the seed round will allow them to offer carbon fiber high-pressure tanks for launch vehicles, satellites and other space-related applications. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=156bc3a759&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space traffic management startup Neuraspace has unveiled a free service.</a> The Portuguese company says it is providing a free version of its space traffic management platform to foster more collaboration among satellite operators. Operators signed up for the service would get a common view of conjunction alerts, which would also automatically open up a chat room between them to discuss how best to avoid the collision risk. The company also offers a premium version that also includes collision avoidance maneuver suggestions and more powerful conjunction analysis tools. 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L3Harris is answering the call with innovative, low-cost, highly-reliable, responsive launch solutions. L3Harris has supported more than 2,100 launches that have provided critical intelligence to the nation, sent spacecraft to every planet in the solar system and safely carried more than 380 astronauts to space. For more than 65 years, we've provided propulsion systems and avionics that have safely and reliably launched critical national security and defense payloads. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=897370d38c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Learn more</a>.</span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 5px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=53976e7227&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX will sell laser inter-satellite links it has developed to other companies.</a> SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at Satellite 2024 Tuesday that the company will offer the "Plug and Plaser" systems, which it developed for its Starlink constellation. Those links will also be demonstrated on the Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission using a Crew Dragon spacecraft later this year. [Reuters]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=24fa385a97&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The European Commission is finalizing a agreement to launch Galileo navigation satellites on SpaceX's Falcon 9.</a> European Union officials said that they have approved a security agreement that would give them special access to launch facilities required for Galileo satellites. That agreement is expected to be formally signed by E.U. and U.S. officials next week. The European Commissions said last fall it planned to launch four Galileo satellites on two Falcon 9 rockets in 2024 because of delays in the development of the Ariane 6. [Politico]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=0ca692ba35&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">An Indian startup will use a Loft Orbital spacecraft to demonstrate edge computing capabilities for Earth observation.</a> SkyServe announced a partnership with Loft Orbital Tuesday to use Loft's YAM-6 satellite to demonstrate the use of AI technologies to analyze optical and hyperspectral images in space, returning insights back to Earth. Loft launched YAM-6 earlier this month as its first "virtual mission" spacecraft, where the spacecraft can be configured by software to perform different missions based on customer requirements. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=03c5898b4c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The launch of a joint U.S.-Indian Earth science mission has slipped to the second half of the year.</a> The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) spacecraft was scheduled to launch this spring on a GSLV launch vehicle. The head of ISRO, S. Somanath, said in an interview that the launch would instead likely take place in the second half of the year because of ongoing tests of the spacecraft. He did not discuss any specific issues that caused the tests to be delayed. [The Times of India]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6678d896d7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA's Swift astronomy spacecraft is in a safe mode.</a> The spacecraft, launched nearly 20 years ago, went into safe mode because of degrading performance of one of its three gyros on March 15, NASA said Monday. NASA is working to update the spacecraft's flight software to allow it to continue operations using the other two gyros, but did not state how long that process would take. Swift is used to monitor gamma-ray bursts. [NASA]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8e917bcdd1&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Engineers are working to remove a layer of ice from an instrument on ESA's Euclid space telescope.</a> A very thin layer of ice, estimated to be the width of a strand of DNA, has formed on the optics of Euclid's main camera. That ice is likely water, absorbed during assembly and launch preparations, that is outgassing in space. While that layer of ice is very thin, it is enough to affect the instrument's precise optics. Engineers have been working to heat part parts of the optics to remove the ice without affecting other parts of the spacecraft. ESA said Wednesday that initial results show that de-icing effort appears to be working. [ESA]<br> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxies</h2> <br> "In six and a half years, your cosmology friends will tell you what the answer to life, the universe and everything is, and it's just one number. 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cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> We're bringing you <a 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Chief among the news is SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell's announcement that the company intends to fly Starship again in May, indicating an accelerated turnaround time between tests compared to the previous few. Also, Kayhan Space will work with universities to promote sustainable space management, GEO operators are trying a new strategy to compete with Starlink, and more. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 4px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; 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"It was an incredibly successful flight. We hit exactly where we wanted to go."</p> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=205de1f48f&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=19aa8b9817&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/a6bfe8c4-1122-bf07-cfcd-890a2f67470f.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=461b73e093&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>Kayhan Space offers space traffic coordination system for universities</u></font></a></h2> <em>By Jeff Foust</em> <div><br> WASHINGTON — Kayhan Space is offering a version of its space traffic coordination platform for universities, a move the company says is intended to help teach students best practices for sustainable space operations.<br> <br> The Broomfield, Colorado-based company rolled out March 19 Pathfinder Classroom, a version of its Pathfinder system designed for use by universities. The system is intended to give student satellite programs access to space safety services while also serving as a learning tool.<br> <br> "They don't really teach conjunction assessment, collision avoidance, spaceflight safety as a course. You don't go to school to learn these things," said Araz Feyzi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Kayhan Space, in an interview. "Let's solve the root of this problem and give them the tools that gives them the means to learn this particular, very niche area."</div> <p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-eeb85ec4-7fff-0b56-cc11-b476358df5f6"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2088b45e8a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; 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The company plans to offer the service as a backup to PNT provided by the Global Positioning System.<br> </div> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=edcfe3a541&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 9px 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=61a053435b&e=21437e418b" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/7e32549c-472f-17d3-1a43-c46932904fe8.png" width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c5b7b064bc&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>Benchmark Space Systems flies first electric thruster</u></font></a></h2> <div><em>By Jeff Foust</em></div> <br> WASHINGTON — Benchmark Space's first electric thruster is in orbit and ready to begin operations as the company moves into large-scale production of the systems.<br> <br> The company announced March 19 that its Xantus thruster is on the Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) demonstration cubesat built by Orion Space Solutions and launched on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission March 4. The company said it expects to soon start firing the thruster after completing on-orbit checkouts.<br> <br> Xantus is a metal plasma thruster that uses molybdenum as propellant. 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The goal is to drastically reduce the time it takes to launch and operate satellites, from the usual weeks or months down to days or even hours.<br> <br> Maj. 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Customers can then deploy AI models on the platform to perform analysis of imagery the satellite collects in real time.<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b482b8950b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table 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width="564" style="max-width: 1200px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0 9px 0 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>Neuraspace starts free space traffic management service</u></font></h2> <em>By Jason Rainbow</em><br> <br> WASHINGTON — Portuguese startup Neuraspace has released a free version of its space traffic management platform to foster more collaboration among satellite operators.<br> <br> Drawing from a pool of information gathered from public sources and partnerships with ground telescope providers, Neuraspace announced March 19 that the software platform is now available at no cost to operators seeking real-time satellite position data to manage their operations better.<br> <br> Operators signed up for the service would get a common view of conjunction alerts, which would also automatically open up a chat room between them to discuss how best to avoid the collision risk.<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9f65920f35&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: 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Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., with hundreds of attendees from across the globe.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">In a keynote speech, Troy Meink, principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=1d0f0b365f&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">said the NRO has changed its procurement methods</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> to take advantage of small satellite technologies and lower launch costs. </span></p><ul><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">But, he added, the agency is embracing a hybrid approach, pursuing a mix of traditional big birds and smallsats.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">"Our main priority is to meet the requirements with minimum risk," he said. "Physics gets a vote. We can't do everything with proliferated LEO." </span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The NRO's upcoming launch campaign reflects this two-track strategy:</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">A small NRO sat dubbed NROL-123 is set to hitch a ride to LEO aboard a Rocket Lab Electron small launch vehicle from the company's new Wallops, Virginia, pad during a window opening March 21. It'll be Rocket Lab's first NRO launch from U.S. soil.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">One of the NRO's largest-ever satellites, NROL-70, is scheduled to go up on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy from Cape Canaveral on March 28 — the swan song for ULA's Delta program.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="613"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" 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advances and interest in multi-orbit solutions.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">During a panel at SATELLITE 2024 executives with several manufacturers acknowledged demand for their satellites had dropped significantly from historical levels of 20 to 25 orders a year but that the market itself was not dying.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">"GEO's not dead," said </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Chris Johnson, chief executive of Maxar Space Systems.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> "By no means is it dead, but it has evolved."</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px">For daily updates from SATELLITE 2024, </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=757a7af2b4&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">sign up for our daily 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14px"><br /></span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=1d0ada6f77&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">In a solicitation posted last week</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> for the Orbital Services Program Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, the U.S. Space Force's Small Launch and Targets Division announced a new opportunity to compete for contracts worth up to $986 million through October 2028.</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Proposals are due April 15. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">OSP-4 procures launch services for payloads 400 pounds or greater, and have to be executed within 12-24 months from task order award. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">There are currently 10 launch providers on the contract: ABL Space Systems, Aevum, Astra, Firefly Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Relativity Space, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and X-Bow.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="621"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="620" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-620" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> announced on Monday it awarded a $15.5 million contract to Parsons Corp. of Chantilly, Virginia, for system integration and cloud management services for the </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=ee4fb987a0&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).</span></a></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">NOAA's Office of Space Commerce is developing TraCSS as a cloud-based IT system that will provide basic space situational awareness and space traffic coordination services to private and civil space operators. </span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">As the system integrator, Parsons will develop the software backbone for the operational TraCSS platform, including the SSA data repository and the application layer.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The company will integrate third-party software components from commercial companies into TraCSS. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Parsons also will be responsible for management of cloud services, cybersecurity protection and system administration for TraCSS operations.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="528"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="584" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-584" style="width:100%"><h1 class="last-child"><span style="font-family: 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href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8a0b6ccb30&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">finally on the home stretch to launching</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> the first two satellites of its next-generation WorldView Legion Earth-imaging constellation.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The first two of six planned high-resolution WorldView Legion satellites have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, paving the way for liftoff as soon as April aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><span style="font-size: 14px">This marks a crucial milestone for the WorldView Legion program, which has </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f596ff8661&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">suffered repeated setbacks</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> since Maxar started developing the spacecraft in 2017. </span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><div data-block-id="558" class="mceCode"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <img src="https://sli.spacenews.com/imp?s=893307&li=d035bb152b&e=generalastronomy110.stnirp@blogger.com&p=b3922f5443&mc_eid=21437e418b&stpe=static" border="0" style="max-height:12px;" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a88c32dcfa&e=21437e418b" rel="nofollow"> <img src="https://sli.spacenews.com/imp?s=893303&li=d035bb152b&e=generalastronomy110.stnirp@blogger.com&p=b3922f5443&mc_eid=21437e418b&stpe=default" border="0" width="728" style="width: 100%; max-width: 728px !important;" /> </a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td 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designed to operate in geostationary Earth orbit.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The company said it will compete in the so-called small GEO satellite market with a new bus named SmallSat GEO.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><span style="font-size: 14px">Small GEO satellites are an emerging class of spacecraft designed for geostationary orbit. </span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="583"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="564" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-564" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Sierra Space</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> is aiming to capture a larger share of the national security market in new sectors like in-orbit services and transportation.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5f0efb5b1b&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">The company is developing</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> orbital vehicles using technologies from its civil and commercial roots in militarized configurations to support defense operations.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><span style="font-size: 14px">Sierra Space has a $1.3 billion defense backlog that includes a $740 million deal </span><a 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exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Space Development Agency (SDA) will not include seven satellites from Raytheon in a missile-tracking constellation.</a> The agency said it is "reevaluating and considering re-scoping" the contract with the company to provide satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. SDA did not explain why Raytheon will not be delivering seven satellites that the company was expected to build under a $250 million contract SDA awarded in March 2023, although industry sources said the company was at risk of having to absorb higher-than-expected overruns due to increased costs on the fixed-price contract. SDA ordered the satellites after previously selecting L3Harris and Northrop Grumman to each provide 14 satellites for the constellation. The loss of the Raytheon satellites should not significantly impact the performance of the missile-tracking network, SDA stated. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=41cb8c79c7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Operators of GEO communications satellites are turning to partnerships with local service providers to better compete with SpaceX's Starlink.</a> Operators said on a panel at the Satellite 2024 conference Monday that working with local providers allows them to better serve customers, particularly in rural communities, where the providers can install and replace hardware faster than the weeks it can take to ship and receive a new Starlink terminal. The relatively high cost of Starlink terminals is also an obstacle in markets where consumers have little disposable income. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=bb06b77d76&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Manufacturers of GEO communications satellites, meanwhile, argue that such satellites are not going away despite reduced demand.</a> During a Satellite 2024 panel, executives acknowledged that orders had dropped significantly in recent years, down to an average of about 10 satellites a year. Despite that decline, they said GEO satellites still offer good economics compared to LEO constellations and can also support multi-orbit solutions. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=90b1311ae9&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Astranis has won another order for its small GEO broadband satellites.</a> Astranis announced Monday that Orbith, a remote connectivity provider based in Argentina, had ordered a satellite for launch in 2025 as part of the Block 3 series of five satellites by Astranis. Other customers for Block 3 satellites include Thaicom, Orbits Corp. of the Philippines and Mexican telco Apco Networks. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d9d9178190&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The National Reconnaissance Office is pursuing a mix of large and small spacecraft for its future architecture of spy satellites.</a> Troy Meink, principal deputy director of the NRO, said at Satellite 2024 Monday that the NRO sees value in leveraging new commercial capabilities for certain missions where small satellites can meet requirements at lower cost. However, the NRO will continue to invest in larger, more capable satellites for critical needs. As an example, the NRO plans to launch a small satellite on a Rocket Lab Electron later this week, followed next week by a launch of one of its largest satellites on the final Delta 4 Heavy. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a7a06b4ad8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Belgian satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab will build the first satellite for Xona Space Systems.</a> The companies announced Tuesday that Aerospacelab will build the satellite, part of Xona's planned constellation to provide navigation services, at a facility Aerospacelab is establishing in the U.S. The companies did not disclose when the satellite would launch. The satellite is based on an Aerospacelab bus called Versatile Satellite Platform, or VSP, with six such spacecraft currently in orbit. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e0763f2ee9&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A joint venture of two Spanish companies has ordered the first satellites for a planned constellation for air traffic management services.</a> Startical, a joint venture of Spanish defense contractor Indra and air navigation services provider Enaire, said Monday it ordered a 20-kilogram satellite from GomSpace and a 110-kilogram satellite from Kongsberg NanoAvionics. Both satellites are scheduled to launch next year to demonstrate how they can be used to track aircraft and provide VHF radio communications for them. Startical has proposed deploying a constellation of more than 270 satellites to provide those services. 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L3Harris is answering the call with innovative, low-cost, highly-reliable, responsive launch solutions. L3Harris has supported more than 2,100 launches that have provided critical intelligence to the nation, sent spacecraft to every planet in the solar system and safely carried more than 380 astronauts to space. 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The launch took place around dusk, creating a brilliant backlit plume as the rocket ascended. That plume was seen throughout southern California and as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix. [Los Angeles Times]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d1cd5068ed&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Maxar is finally ready to launch its first WorldView Legion satellites.</a> The company said Monday it shipped the first two Legion satellites to Vandenberg for a launch as soon as next month on a Falcon 9. This marks a crucial milestone for the WorldView Legion program, which has suffered repeated setbacks since Maxar started developing the spacecraft in 2017. Maxar is planning to launch six WorldView Legion satellites, tripling its capacity to provide high-resolution imagery. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=619486adb8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Orbit Fab has set the pricing for a spacecraft refueling port.</a> The company said Tuesday it will offer its Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface, or RAFTI, fueling port for spacecraft for $30,000 each. RAFTI is designed to make it easier to refuel spacecraft on orbit by providing a standardized interface. Orbit Fab recently completed qualification testing of RAFTI, allowing it to deliver the first 100 RAFTI units to U.S. government and commercial customers over the next year. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9a8adb5c62&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Benchmark Space Systems has launched its first electric propulsion system.</a> The company says its Xantus metal plasma thruster is on a 12U weather observation cubesat launched earlier this month by Orion Space Solutions. The millinewton-class Xantus thruster, which uses molybdenum as propellant, will soon start operations, the company said. Benchmark is preparing to deliver more than 50 of those thrusters to various customers this year, with strong interest from developers of microsatellites who want to use it for "precision maneuver" applications. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=36bfd0a77c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Kayhan Space is offering a version of its space traffic coordination software platform for universities.</a> The company announced Tuesday its Pathfinder Classroom platform, intended for use by universities operating their own cubesats or for simulating spacecraft operations. The company says that this version of its existing Pathfinder system will help educate students on the importance of spaceflight safety before they enter the workforce. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c64bd6f215&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Aerospace Corp. and the Space Foundation are joining forces to expand the Space Workforce 2030 program.</a> Aerospace started the Space Workforce 2030 initiative in 2022, forming a coalition of about 30 member companies with the goal of promoting a more diverse and inclusive workforce within the space industry. The expansion includes several new initiatives such as increasing outreach to underrepresented groups, providing educational opportunities like internships and working with companies to promote inclusive hiring practices. Melanie Stricklan, co-founder and former CEO of Slingshot Aerospace, will be the first executive director of Space Workforce 2030. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a7a45ff543&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Apollo and Gemini astronaut Tom Stafford has died.</a> Stafford passed away Monday at the age of 93 after an extended illness. Stafford was selected in NASA's second class of astronauts in 1962 and he flew on the Gemini 6A and Gemini 9A missions, followed by Apollo 10, a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing. He was the U.S. commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975, the first joint crewed mission between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. A retired Air Force lieutenant general, Stafford served on various committees and study groups up until his death. 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But the agency also continues investing in bigger, more capable satellite buses and launch vehicles for its most critical needs.<br> <br> The upcoming launch campaigns reflect this hybrid approach. Within days, the NRO plans to send a small satellite into low Earth orbit aboard a Rocket Lab Electron small launch vehicle, and then will loft one of its largest-ever satellites on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy vehicle. <p dir="ltr" style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-eeb85ec4-7fff-0b56-cc11-b476358df5f6"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=abcfc860f5&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" 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rocket.</div> <div> </div> <div>This marks a crucial milestone for the WorldView Legion program, which has suffered repeated setbacks since Maxar started developing the spacecraft in 2017. <br> </div> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=76b427b688&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: 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want to damage the optical sensor," he told SpaceNews in an interview, "like for example if all of a sudden the satellite was staring at the sun."<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=fa07a7e971&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SEE FULL STORY</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 8px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> 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color="#0782c1"><u>Startical orders test satellites for air traffic surveillance and comms constellation</u></font></a></h2> <div><em>By Jason Rainbow</em></div> <div>WASHINGTON — Spanish defense contractor Indra has teamed up with local air navigation services provider Enaire to order two satellites next year to test their proposed air traffic surveillance and communications constellation.</div> <div> </div> <div>Their joint venture, Startical, said March 18 it has ordered a 20-kilogram satellite from GomSpace and a 110-kilogram satellite from Kongsberg NanoAvionics — the first of more than 270 spacecraft planned for low Earth orbit. </div> <div> </div> <div>Startical said the GomSpace satellite would be deployed in early 2025, followed by NanoAvionics around the middle of the year, but did not disclose launch details.</div> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=161eba3664&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" 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9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #333333;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;" width="564"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 24px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=47c6571dca&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;"><font color="#0782c1"><u>Opinion: Bundling enterprise service in the fractured Direct-to-Device LEO landscape</u></font></a></h2> <em>By Enrico Ottolini</em><br> <br> The imminent market entry of several direct-to-device (D2D) LEO satellite constellations standardized to use telecom protocols by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the global organization that develops the standards for terrestrial and non-terrestrial cellular communication, has sparked a wave of excitement around the world. In particular, these systems can play a huge role in the global south, serving to connect the roughly 3 billion currently unconnected people living and working outside of the coverage of terrestrial cellular networks.<br> <br> But how can companies offering D2D LEO satellite services succeed in this new and very challenging market? It will prove particularly difficult, especially considering that, for the first time in history, this will truly merge terrestrial cellular and satellite services. <br> <br> Although the major companies in this space will together cover a substantial part of the whole 5G service spectrum, their focus on competing with each other is hindering their ability to address the needs of enterprise clients for a complete and bundled 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) service portfolio to provide seamless coverage extension of their TN connectivity solutions. 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normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c8b7be554a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX is developing a constellation of hundreds of imaging satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office.</a> The effort, part of SpaceX's Starshield program to provide defense services, is funded by a $1.8 billion contract the NRO awarded SpaceX in 2021, according to sources. The NRO acknowledged that it is developing "the most capable, diverse, and resilient space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system the world has ever seen," but did not go into details about its work with SpaceX on the system or any other companies it might be working with. About a dozen prototype satellites have launched since 2020, but how large the system will be and when it will be deployed are uncertain. [Reuters]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a2a9717832&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space infrastructure company Redwire hopes to continue its growth by winning bigger deals and moving into new markets.</a> The company reported last week $243.8 million in revenue in 2023, up 51.9% from 2022. The company had a net loss for the year but decreased it significantly from 2022 and also reported positive adjusted EBITDA. In an earnings call Friday the company said it was forecasting $300 million in revenue in 2024 as it looks to win bigger deals, like a $142 million contract it won in the fourth quarter to provide solar arrays for an undisclosed satellite manufacturer. It also announced it is developing a new satellite bus called SabreSat intended for very low Earth orbit applications. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5b486d8204&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space situational awareness (SSA) startup Turion Space expects to start collecting data from its first satellite soon.</a> The company launched its Droid.001 satellite last June and started commissioning its imaging sensor a couple months ago. Turion says it expects to start taking images of other space objects with that sensor by May. Those images will be used for SSA applications for commercial and government customers as Turion works on future spacecraft to perform satellite servicing and debris removal. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a5221a153a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">China is preparing to launch a data relay satellite for an upcoming farside lunar mission.</a> A Long March 8 rocket was vertically transferred to a launch pad at Wenchang Satellite Launch Center early Sunday for a launch scheduled for Tuesday evening. The rocket is carrying the Queqiao-2 communications satellite, which will go into an elliptical orbit around the moon to support future Chinese lunar missions, starting with the Chang'e-6 farside lunar sample return mission scheduled to launch in May. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=76d24c1437&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Despite budget and schedule uncertainty, work to collect samples on Mars for later return to Earth continues.</a> At a conference last week, scientists said the Perseverance rover had now filled 26 of its 43 sample tubes, a total that includes several "witness" tubes that serve as controls for any terrestrial contamination. Perseverance is continuing to drive up the remains of a river delta that once flowed into Jezero Crater. The samples being collected by the rover will be returned to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return program, which is undergoing a review after an independent assessment last year found it was overbudget and behind schedule. Funding for Mars Sample Return was left as "TBD" in NASA's fiscal year 2025 budget proposal released last week, which NASA will amend as soon as next month once a new plan is in place for the program. 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Launch attempts the two previous nights were scrubbed because of problems with ground equipment. The launch brings the total number of Starlink satellites launched to more than 6,000, with a little more than 5,600 currently in orbit. [Spaceflight Now]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6c2fc136f2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Despite not making it to the moon, some payloads on Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander still returned useful data.</a> At a conference last week, representatives of several payloads on the lander, which suffered a propellant leak hours after liftoff and reentered 10 days later, said they were able to check out their instruments while in cislunar space and collect data, such as of the radiation environment. A student-built lunar rover on the lander was also able to test some of its systems, confirming they would have worked had Peregrine landed. Astrobotic is continuing its review of the mission and will incorporate lessons learned into its larger Griffin lander that will carry NASA's VIPER lunar rover. While that mission was scheduled to launch in November, NASA says that it's likely the mission will slip into next year as it evaluates what work needs to be done on the lander. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=5ae1955e7a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Japan will get to land two astronauts on the moon as part of the Artemis program.</a> An agreement between the governments of Japan and the United States to be signed next month gives Japan two slots on future Artemis lunar landing missions in exchange for its contributions to the program, such as elements of the lunar Gateway and a pressurized lunar rover. Japan wants to become the second country after the U.S. to land astronauts on the moon, and the earliest opportunity would be the Artemis 4 mission in the late 2020s. [Nikkei]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=57dc102f84&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX reportedly places unusual conditions on stock it offers employees.</a> Because SpaceX is not publicly traded, the stock it gives to employees as part of their compensation can only be sold with the company's permission through tender offers. Agreements employees sign give SpaceX the right to prevent current or past employees from participating in those tenders if SpaceX deems they performed "an act of dishonesty against the company." SpaceX also reserves the right to buy back stock at $0 a share if an employee is fired for cause. An expert in company stock options called those terms unusual, and former employees say the terms "keep everyone under their control" even after leaving. [TechCrunch]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=4175e47b38&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">With the total solar eclipse three weeks away, merchandising related to it is going into high gear.</a> A wide range of companies, particularly those along the path of totality for the April 8 eclipse, are offering special eclipse-themed items, such as a "Moon Pie Frappa" by a coffee shop in Arkansas. A Cleveland brewery says it is producing a very large batch of a beer called "The Totality" given the rarity of the event: Cleveland won't see another total solar eclipse for 420 years. 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Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is the speaker at <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=aee376de46&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">a Maryland Space Business Roundtable luncheon</a>.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Wenchang, China:</strong> Anticipated launch of a Long March 8 carrying the Queqiao-2 lunar relay satellite.</li> </ul> <strong>Wednesday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Washington:</strong> The <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3c9e7a69fd&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">House Science Committee will mark up eight bills</a>, including several related to NASA, at 10 a.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Wednesday-Thursday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=150472799e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA's Astrophysics Advisory Council meets</a> for updates on the agency's astrophysics programs and missions.</li> </ul> <strong>Wednesday-Friday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>College Park, Md./Online:</strong> The American Astronautical Society holds its annual <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=665255c1a2&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Goddard Space Science Symposium</a>.</li> </ul> <strong>Thursday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Jiuquan, China:</strong> Projected launch of a Long March 2D carrying a weather satellite payload at 1:35 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Wallops Island, Va.: </strong>Scheduled launch of an Electron rocket on the NROL-123 mission for the NRO at 2:15 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Online:</strong> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=df6c9ce479&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Intuitive Machines will release its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results</a> and hold an earnings call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Baikonur, Kazakhstan:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft to the ISS at 9:21 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Washington:</strong> The House Science Committee's space subcommittee holds a hearing on <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=0a227fcffd&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">"Advancing Scientific Discovery: Assessing the Status of NASA's Science Mission Directorate"</a> at 10 a.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Washington:</strong> The Universities Space Research Association holds a symposium on <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=915417187e&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">"Space Nuclear Technology: Research and Development for Evolving Space Missions"</a> at 1 p.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Washington:</strong> The House Armed Services Committee's strategic forces subcommittee <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=562330c051&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">holds a posture hearing</a> at 3:30 p.m. Eastern.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Kennedy Space Center, Fla.:</strong> Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying the CRS-30 cargo Dragon spacecraft to the ISS at 4:55 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> <strong>Thursday-Friday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Turin, Italy:</strong> The <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=bb4d647e91&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">First IAA Moon Farside Protection Symposium</a> will discuss efforts to protect planned astronomical research on the lunar farside from interference.</li> </ul> <strong>Friday:</strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>Cape Canaveral, Fla.: </strong>Scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites at 7:55 p.m. Eastern.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 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left;" class="last-child">This week, SpaceX conducted its third Starship test flight, which fared much better than the first two launch attempts. This time, Starship was able to conduct most of its planned tests, and telemetry was only lost about 49 minutes after takeoff, during descent. Elsewhere, NASA, the Pentagon and the FAA released details on their FY2025 budget requests, and both Japan and China faced issues on recent launch attempts.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="44"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="45" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-45" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">Our Top Story</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="46" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-46" style="width:100%"><h1 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=84aa9e8b36&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Starship lifts off on third test flight</span></strong></a></h1></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f3607f8353&e=21437e418b" style="display:block" target="_blank" data-block-id="6"><img width="564" height="auto" style="border:0;width:564px;height:auto;max-width:1200px !important;display:block" alt="Starship's third test flight" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/3df92b5f-e9f9-fb84-1b60-dcdec69decf6.png" class="mceImage" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="47" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-47" style="width:100%"><p class="last-child">Jeff Foust, March 14, 2024</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="48" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-48" style="width:100%"><p>WASHINGTON — SpaceX's Starship vehicle lifted off on its third test flight March 14, making significant progress compared to its first two by achieving most of its planned test milestones.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from the company's Starbase site at 9:25 a.m. Eastern. The liftoff was delayed by nearly an hour and a half because of ships in restricted waters offshore. SpaceX reported no technical issues during the countdown.</p><p><br /></p><p class="last-child">The Super Heavy booster fired all 33 of its Raptor engines for nearly three minutes before executing "hot staging", with the Starship upper stage's engines igniting while still attached to Super Heavy before separating.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="52" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-52" style="width:100%"><h1 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">Other News From the Week</h1></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="51"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="54" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-54" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">U.S. BUDGET</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="58" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-58" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f5d032b2a0&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>NASA says spending caps force "hard choices" for its 2025 budget</strong></a></p><p class="last-child">NASA says its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal is constrained by the second year of a debt-ceiling agreement that caps overall spending, leading to delays, potential cancellations and broader uncertainty for many NASA science programs in particular.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3031dabf44&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Space Force budget holding steady amid Pentagon's fiscal constraints</strong></a><br />The Pentagon rolled out a $849.8 billion budget request for fiscal year 2025 that includes $29.4 billion for the U.S. Space Force. The $29.4 billion request represents a $600 million cut from the $30 billion the Defense Department sought for the newest military branch in fiscal 2024 – a plan that remains in limbo as Congress has kept the government funded via a series of stopgap spending bills.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f68948212b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>FAA requests large funding increase for commercial space office</strong></a><br />The Federal Aviation Administration is requesting a major budget increase for its commercial space office to both keep up with growing launch demand and prepare for potential new regulatory roles. The FAA, in its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal released March 11, requested $57.13 million for its Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or AST. That is a 36% increase from the $42.018 million AST received in the final fiscal year 2024 spending bill passed last week.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="60"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="55" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-55" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">LAUNCH</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="59" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-59" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=05b0a140fd&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>First Kairos rocket explodes seconds after liftoff</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><p class="last-child">The first flight of privately developed Japanese rocket ended in a catastrophic failure seconds after liftoff March 12. The Kairos rocket, built by Japanese company Space One, exploded about five seconds after liftoff at 10:01 p.m. Eastern from Spaceport Kii, a launch site in the southern part of Honshu. In a webcast of the launch, the rocket had not yet cleared a hillside surrounding it when it exploded.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e8b176e9af&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Surprise Chinese lunar mission hit by launch anomaly</strong></a><br />A pair of Chinese spacecraft, apparently intended for lunar orbit, have potentially been lost following an issue with a Long March rocket's upper stage on Wednesday. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 8:51 a.m. Eastern (1251 UTC) March 13. There was no official acknowledgement of the launch until early Thursday, when Chinese state media Xinhua announced the DRO-A and B spacecraft had not been inserted accurately into their designated orbit by the rocket's Yuanzheng-1S upper stage.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=76e4c15160&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Rocket Lab launches Synspective radar imaging satellite</strong></a><br />Rocket Lab launched a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company Synspective March 12, the latest in a series of launches for that company. A Rocket Lab Electron lifted off from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:03 a.m. Eastern March 12. The launch, delayed three days by weather, took place at the end of the day's launch window, about 75 minutes long, also on account of weather. The rocket deployed the StriX-3 satellite into sun-synchronous orbit about 54 minutes after liftoff.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:3px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="61"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #000000" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="56" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-56" style="width:100%"><h3 style="text-align: center;" class="last-child">GOVERNMENT</h3></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="57" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-57" style="width:100%"><p><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8692f85c78&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>Space Development Agency marks five-year milestone</strong></a></p><p>When the Pentagon established the Space Development Agency five years ago, it encountered fierce resistance from stalwarts of the military's traditional satellite programs. The agency had been given an ambitious but controversial mission: to build a new orbital architecture for national security using small satellites and commercially available technologies, overturning decades of preference for larger, ultra-costly spacecraft that took years to design and launch.<br /><br /><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6f76bdc77b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank"><strong>FCC approves direct-to-smartphone regulatory framework</strong></a></p><p class="last-child">U.S. regulators have approved ground rules for allowing SpaceX and other satellite operators to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile partners to keep smartphone users connected outside cell tower coverage. The Federal Communications Commission voted March 14 unanimously in favor of its Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) regulatory framework.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#000000;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:48px;padding-left:48px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:#000000" role="presentation" data-block-id="33"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:3px solid #ffffff" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px;padding-right:8px;padding-left:8px" class="mceLayoutContainer" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" data-block-id="38" id="section_fb0afa33df3adb3c04828942d6c82937" class="mceFooterSection"><tbody><tr class="mceRow"><td style="background-color:#ffffff;background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="12" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;margin-bottom:12px" class="mceColumn" data-block-id="-3" valign="top" colspan="12" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:16px;padding-left:16px" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><div data-block-id="36" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-36" style="display:inline-block;width:100%"><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px">Copyright (C) 2024 Multiverse Media Inc.. 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href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f8701eb596&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX launched Starship on a third, mostly successful test flight Thursday.</a> The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from the company's Starbase facility in South Texas at 9:25 a.m. Eastern. The launch placed Starship on its planned suborbital trajectory, where it performed tests such as opening a payload bay door and starting a propellant transfer demonstration. The vehicle reentered over the Indian Ocean but appeared to break up at an altitude of about 65 kilometers nearly 50 minutes after liftoff. The Super Heavy booster also broke up during a landing burn over the Gulf of Mexico. Although the vehicle did not complete all its test objectives, SpaceX still considered the flight successful, an assessment shared by NASA. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=6b6fd4db06&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The FCC has approved rules to allow direct-to-device satellite communications using terrestrial spectrum.</a> FCC commissioners unanimously approved Thursday the Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) regulatory framework. The rules will allow satellite operators like SpaceX to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile partners to keep smartphone users connected outside cell tower coverage. SCS providers would have to immediately cease operations if they interfere with a mobile satellite services provider or terrestrial telco with primary rights. The final rules approved by the FCC will go into force after a final review and publication in the Federal Register in the coming weeks. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=98146321ef&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Sierra Space is looking to take a larger role in national security space with dual-use spacecraft.</a> The company says it has $1.3 billion in defense orders, including a $740 million contract from the Space Development Agency it won in January to produce 18 missile-tracking satellites. Sierra Space says it is examining how it can make use of spacecraft and related technologies originally developed for civil and commercial applications, like its Dream Chaser spaceplane, for national security applications. That includes what the Pentagon calls "space access, mobility and logistics" or SAML services, which has $40 million earmarked for it in the Space Force's 2025 budget proposal. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d333394743&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Taiwan, wary of relying on Starlink, may develop its own satellite communications network.</a> The government is planning to launch its first communications satellite in 2026, with a second to follow within two years and several more test satellites in development. The satellites would provide connectivity to back up a telecommunications infrastructure reliant on undersea cables that could be severed in a natural disaster or crisis with China. The country is also working with SES and Eutelsat OneWeb on connectivity services, but some officials say they worry that SpaceX might not make Starlink available in Taiwan during a crisis because of Elon Musk's business interests in China. 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The launch is now scheduled for 6:39 p.m. Eastern Friday. [Florida Today]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a72fa8c6da&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Pentagon is taking the next step in a "rocket cargo" program.</a> The Space Force's fiscal year 2025 budget proposal includes $4 million for the initiative, now called Point-to-Point Delivery, to support continued research and development of the concept that would use rockets to deliver cargo around the world in as little as an hour. The Air Force Research Laboratory started the effort in 2021 and awarded SpaceX a $102 million contract in early 2022 to study use of the company's Starships for cargo delivery. [Breaking Defense]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=249c6fd27c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">South Korea is offering high salaries for staff of its new space agency.</a> The Korea Aerospace Administration, or KASA, plans to hire 120 people by May, when it formally starts operations, with a goal of reaching 300 people later in the year. The director of the space agency will receive a salary of nearly $190,000, the same as the country's president, with the potential for additional compensation. KASA would become the first South Korean agency where staff could earn more than the president. The government says it is offering the high salaries to attract talent, emphasizing the importance it is placing on growing the country's space capabilities. [Chosun Ilbo]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b84b46dd1f&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The latest ailment that astronauts suffer from is a "space headache."</a> Research published this week by the American Academy of Neurology found that most astronauts on the International Space Station suffered headaches during their time on the station, including those who reported never having headaches before going to space. The headaches ended after returning to Earth. Scientists said the headaches could be explained by space motion sickness in the first weeks of a flight and an increase of pressure in the skull in later phases. 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20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d0b024247d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX is gearing up for the third launch of Starship as soon as this morning.</a> SpaceX said it was working towards a launch towards the end of a 110-minute launch window that opened at 8 a.m. Eastern. SpaceX received an updated FAA launch license late Wednesday, the final regulatory milestone for the launch. This third launch of Starship and its Super Heavy booster will include several tests not planned for the first two flights, and would conclude with a splashdown in the Indian Ocean a little more than an hour after liftoff if all goes well. [SpaceX]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d0c491c7e7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A malfunction during a Chinese launch Wednesday may have doomed two lunar spacecraft.</a> A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 8:51 a.m. Eastern, but there was no official report of the launch until early Thursday, when Chinese media said there was a malfunction with the rocket's Yuanzheng-1S upper stage. The rocket was carrying the DRO-A and -B satellites, intended to test lunar navigation technologies, likely in a distant retrograde orbit around the moon. It's unclear what orbit the spacecraft are in now and if their mission can be salvaged. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=294f17f578&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Space Force's Space Development Agency is marking its fifth anniversary as it continues work on two satellite constellations.</a> The SDA is requesting about $4.25 billion for fiscal year 2025 to continue development of a Transport Layer of data communications satellites that will serve as a tactical network to move data collected by a Tracking Layer of infrared sensors to users around the world. That is a far cry from the agency's origins, when it struggled to secure funding amid skepticism from Congress and within the Pentagon. SDA Director Derek Tournear said in a recent interview that the agency had to "ruffle feathers" as part of being disruptive. He noted that SDA is working with contractors on supply chain issues while working to bring in new vendors to bid on future satellite contracts. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=7c728a274c&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA is restructuring a major Earth science program to compensate for reduced budgets.</a> NASA said in its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal it was making major changes to the Earth System Observatory line of missions, intended to collect key data identified in the most recent decadal survey. In a town hall meeting Wednesday, agency officials said the changes include splitting larger missions into several smaller ones, relying more on international partners and turning some agency-led directed missions into ones open for competition. Those changes are intended to reduce costs, but will result in some delays and loss of instruments as well. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e31298d2e6&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Terran Orbital is now offering a small GEO satellite.</a> The company unveiled Thursday a line of spacecraft called SmallSat GEO weighing 500 kilograms and more. The satellites are intended to serve growing interest in GEO satellites much smaller than the traditional multi-ton GEO communications satellites. The new product line announcement comes as Terran Orbital weighs an offer to be acquired by Lockheed Martin. 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border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9aa17a85fb&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX scrubbed a Starlink launch Wednesday night.</a> The company had planned to launch the Group 6-44 Starlink mission on a Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday evening, but scrubbed the launch about two minutes before the scheduled 9:25 p.m. Eastern liftoff. SpaceX did not disclose the reason for the scrub but says it will try again tonight at 7:04 p.m. Eastern. [Spaceflight Now]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2ab8dd87b7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Satellite operators are making unusual partnerships in order to provide customers with multi-orbit services.</a> Those partnerships, like deals Intelsat and SES made with OneWeb and Starlink, point to a future of mixed space networks spanning multiple orbits. Hybrid networks that were once considered niche are now becoming a dominant trend in the satellite communications industry. Collaboration and partnership models are becoming the norm for operators to stay relevant and meet the complex demands of customers who want to ensure continuous connectivity even in challenging situations. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9a777d5fa9&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Omnispace says its proposed satellite constellation could provide direct-to-device services in Africa.</a> Omnispace announced an agreement this week with MTN, Africa's largest terrestrial mobile network operator, where they will use Omnispace prototype satellites to test how S-band spectrum could be used to keep mobile customers connected outside cell tower coverage. Omnispace has announced similar testing agreements with mobile phone operators in several other countries, and also recently announced winning regulatory approval provide services in Brazil. Omnispace expects to provide initial services in 2026 with 300 LEO satellites. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=9e481141e6&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A startup has won a $15 million contract to update computer systems at U.S. Space Force launch ranges.</a> Colorado Springs-based Defense Unicorns won a so-called Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement from SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the Space Force. The contract will go towards updating IT systems and software applications used to support rocket launches. The company last week announced it raised a $35 million Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures and Ansa Capital. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c1cb90eedd&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A company led by two former Blue Origin executives has confirmed its interest in mining helium-3 from the moon.</a> Interlune said Wednesday it has raised $15 million to start work on technologies that could be used to extract that rare isotope, often linked to future nuclear fusion reactors, from the lunar surface. Interlune was founded by Rob Meyerson and Gary Lai, the former president and chief architect, respectively, of Blue Origin. The announcement confirmed earlier reports about both the interest in the company and its interest in helium-3. 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border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">It's Five O'Clock Somewhere in the Universe</h2> <br> "A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds, and perhaps a cocktail, 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20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=83b2b3bc5a&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The first launch of a privately developed Japanese rocket ended in an explosion seconds after liftoff.</a> The Kairos rocket lifted off at 10:01 p.m. Eastern Tuesday from the Spaceport Kii launch site on Honshu. The rocket, though, exploded about five seconds after liftoff, with debris falling back near the launch site. Space One, the company that developed Kairos, did not disclose details about what might have caused the explosion. Kairos uses three solid-propellant lower stages and a liquid-propellant kick stage and is designed to place up to 250 kilograms into low Earth orbit. Space One, whose shareholders include Canon and IHI Aerospace, has stated its goal is to launch Kairos up to 20 times a year but has offered few details about any customers for the rocket. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f51f3e98bd&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The launch failure comes as the Japanese government establishes a fund to support the country's space industry.</a> Japan's cabinet approved a bill to establish a $6.7 billion (1 trillion yen) 10-year Space Strategic Fund in November to be administered by the Japanese space agency JAXA aimed at supporting development, technology demonstration, and commercialization of advanced technologies in the space field. New details about the fund disclosed last month defined three areas for support: satellites, space exploration and space transportation. It answers a call in the Space Basic Plan, revised in June 2023, for JAXA to be able to support entities from the commercial and academic worlds. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3a850c3bfb&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The U.S. Army has extended a contract with Maxar Intelligence for 3D terrain models.</a> Maxar was awarded Phase 4 of the U.S. Army's One World Terrain (OWT) contract, which has a total value of $94.7 million if all options are exercised. The company uses data from its high-resolution Earth imaging satellites to make 3D mapping products including, for the OWT contract, models used to create immersive training environments for soldiers. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=e12fe02bdc&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Airbus used its Beluga aircraft to transport one of its communications satellites to Florida for launch.</a> The oversized aircraft transported the Eutelsat 36D satellite from France, where the spacecraft was assembled, to Florida for launch on a Falcon 9 at the end of the month. Eutelsat 36D has 70 Ku-band transponders and will replace the Eutelsat 36B satellite at 36 degrees east in GEO. It is the third time the manufacturer's alternative to Ukrainian Antonov aircraft has flown a large satellite across the Atlantic since Airbus started offering an outsized freight transportation service two years ago. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=dc1c9c34be&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The FAA is seeking a large budget increase for its commercial space office.</a> The FAA's fiscal year 2025 budget proposal released this week includes $57.1 million for its Office of Commercial Space Transportation, 36% above its 2024 budget. The additional funding would allow the office to hire more staff to oversee commercial launches and reentries, as well as prepare for potential new regulatory roles in human spaceflight and mission authorization for space activities not overseen by other agencies. The FAA is, in addition, requesting a $7 million increase for its Air Traffic Organization so it can hire more staff to coordinate airspace for commercial launches. 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StriX-3 is the fourth synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite for Synspective, a Japanese company with plans to deploy a constellation of 30 such spacecraft. All four have launched on Electron rockets under a multi-launch contract that includes two more launches. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=2e6cb53c6b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX is preparing for a third Starship test flight as soon as tomorrow.</a> The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle is ready on the launch pad at the company's Starbase site in South Texas, with airspace and maritime notices for a launch in place. SpaceX is still awaiting an updated FAA license for the launch. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the launch should take place at "end of week, pending weather," suggesting a possible delay to Friday or the weekend. [Space.com]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=a48344fb38&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">South Korea's president has vowed to nearly double the country's space budget.</a> In a visit Wednesday to the headquarters of Korea Aerospace Industries, Yoon Suk Yeol said the government's spending on space would grow to more than $1.1 billion in 2027, nearly double current levels. That funding would go towards expanding satellite and launch vehicle production, including a new launch pad for commercial rockets. He set a goal of expanding South Korea's share of the global aerospace industry from the current 1% to 10% by 2045. [Korea Herald]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d5d980fc74&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">India's space agency ISRO has published the first images from a new weather satellite.</a> The images, released this week, are from the INSAT-3DS spacecraft launched last month to geostationary orbit. The images confirm that the satellite and its instruments are working well, ISRO said. 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Gen. Mike Greiner brief reporters on the FY2025 Air Force and Space Force budgets. " src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/931e9200-676a-f61d-79ad-6cac8ac055ff.jpeg" class="mceImage" /></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="595" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-595" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">The Pentagon on Monday dropped its $849.8 billion</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> budget request for fiscal year 2025, and the Space Force is feeling a bit of gravity.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=cd36beeb6a&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">The newest military branch</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> is looking at a proposed $29.4 billion budget — $600 million less than what the Pentagon sought for it last year.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Space budget analyst Todd Harrison called it a "business as usual" budget that largely sticks to prior projections. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px">said the 2025 request is "acceptable" but not optimal for keeping up with China's space threat.</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Among the constraints: Those pesky budget caps from last year's Fiscal Responsibility Act that could force automatic cuts if appropriations drag.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">One group likely disappointed: Commercial space companies that were hoping for new funding lines to tap into services like satellite servicing, debris removal and space domain awareness. The budget mostly sticks to traditional hardware and services the Pentagon already buys.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Small commercially produced satellites, meanwhile, continue to be acquired by the Space Development Agency, which is getting $1.7 billion to keep building its missile-tracking and data transport space networks in low Earth orbit. Newspace companies are finding opportunities there.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="613"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="614" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-614" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">The Defense Department is getting into the venture capital game</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> with its new Office of Strategic Capital. And it's </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=00de071746&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">seeking $144 million in fiscal year 2025</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> to start investing.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The OSC's mission: Use financial tools like loan guarantees to attract private investment to companies working on dual-use technologies with military and commercial applications. Think AI, cybersecurity, space tech and more.</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The strategy, released March 8, reads like a VC firm's portfolio goals. Among the areas the Pentagon wants to back in addition to space tech: autonomous systems, biotech, quantum computing, semiconductors and advanced materials. </span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The Pentagon has struggled to tap into the commercial tech world. By dangling financial upside, DoD aims to get in on the ground floor of cutting-edge technologies.</span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">OSC plans to partner with outfits like the Small Business Administration's investment arm on financing vehicles like loan guarantees.</span></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" class="mceBlockContainer" align="center" valign="top"><img data-block-id="615" width="564" height="auto" style="width:564px;height:auto;max-width:2048px !important;display:block" alt="Space Systems Command officials speak at the Space Mobility Conference in Orlando FLA" src="https://mcusercontent.com/75806695e6f086874391c9624/images/1068dd32-4605-bebe-f7cf-3ab7cbde88ee.jpeg" class="mceImage" /></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="616" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-616" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">The Space Force's Commercial Space Office (COMSO)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px"> is trying to change the acquisition game with their "buy before build" mantra. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">COMSO top officials </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px">Col. Richard Kniseley and Jeremy Leader </span></strong><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=4a914f6ff3&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">spoke with SpaceNews about their plans</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> to exploit existing space capabilities, buy commercial services wherever possible, and build only what's absolutely necessary.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">The philosophy: "If a commercial capability out there fulfills 70% of our requirements that we can get today, we consider that a win," Kniseley said. It's about speed to stay ahead of threats.</span></p><ul class="last-child"><li><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Buying launch and SATCOM commercially is nothing new. 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href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=b39f3a8fe8&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">contract last year,</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> and a $2 million award </span><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=d49effb44a&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">announced March 4</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> to supply the Air Force satellite imagery data and access to the BlackSky data analytics platform.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=40a5827157&e=21437e418b"><span style="font-size: 14px">The $3.5 million contract</span></a><span style="font-size: 14px"> is the first task under a contract worth up to $23 million over four years.</span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><div data-block-id="558" 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satellites that capture images of the entire planet on a daily basis.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.25;" class="last-child"><span style="font-size: 14px">Planet's electro-optical imagery will be shared via SeaVision, a web-based platform used by the U.S. and allies to improve maritime domain awareness. </span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent" role="presentation" data-block-id="583"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px solid #848484" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px" class="mceBlockContainer" valign="top"><div data-block-id="564" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-564" 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<td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Top Stories</h3> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=3d8ea88e2b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Crew Dragon spacecraft returned four people from the International Space Station this morning.</a> The spacecraft Endurance splashed down off the Florida coast near Pensacola at 5:47 a.m. Eastern, a little more than 18 hours after undocking from the ISS. The splashdown marked the end of the Crew-7 mission, returning NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA's Andreas Mogensen, JAXA's Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos' Konstantin Borisov after more than six months in space. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=dd1194f908&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A fiscal year 2025 budget proposal includes steady funding for the U.S. Space Force.</a> The budget proposal, released Monday, offers $29.4 billion for the service, down from the $30 billion requested for 2024 but in line with projections last year for the service's funding in 2025. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the 2025 request is an "acceptable" budget for the Space Force, but not an optimal one, allowing key programs to move forward but at not quite the pace that the Pentagon would like. While the Space Force budget remained relatively flat, many in the commercial space industry will be disappointed it did not create new funding lines for emerging services, one analyst said. <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=8e7ed9abf7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">The Pentagon is also requesting $144 million for its new Office of Strategic Capital</a>, created to help bring private investment to companies developing dual-use technologies with both commercial and national security applications. With financing tools like loan guarantees, the office aims to boost tech firms that typically shun government work. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=de264449e0&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">NASA says that it's faced with "hard choices" for its programs because of spending caps.</a> The agency released its 2025 budget proposal Monday, seeking nearly $25.4 billion in 2025, the same as the agency received in 2023 and a half-billion more than it received in the final 2024 spending bill last week. The budget requests proposals to delay, cancel or restructure several science missions, including canceling the Geospace Dynamics Constellation heliophysics mission and cutting back operations of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The budget left funding for Mars Sample Return (MSR) as "TBD" as plans to restructure the program wrap up this spring. NASA will later amend the budget request to include funding for MSR, but doesn't plan to increase the $2.7 billion overall request for planetary science. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=04df343dd7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SAIC has won a $444 million contract to modernize launch range infrastructure.</a> The company beat out multiple rivals to secure the highly contested Digital Transformation, Acquisition, Modernization and Modification (DTAMM) contract from the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. The contract covers work over five years to modernize the launch instrumentation and information systems at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=68612f6dd5&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Flat panel antenna maker Kymeta is changing its leadership team.</a> The company announced Monday that co-CEOs Walter Berger and Doug Hutcheson, who are also president and chair, respectively, are retiring at the end of March after leading the company for five years. Rick Bergman, most recently executive vice president for computing and graphics at chipmaker AMD, is replacing Berger as president and CEO. Nicole Piasecki, a Kymeta board member since May 2022, will become its chair. The change comes as the company prepares to start shipping its first multi-orbit broadband user terminal. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=f426065de7&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">SpaceX has secured conditional approval to use extremely high-frequency E-band spectrum for its Starlink satellites.</a> The FCC announced Friday it will allow SpaceX to use E-band spectrum for communications between second-generation Starlink satellites and gateways on the ground. Use of E-band, which is at higher frequencies than Ka- and Ku-band, enables higher bandwidth communications. SpaceX said using E-band radio waves for backhaul would enable Starlink Gen2 to provide about four times more capacity per satellite than earlier iterations. 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border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h2 class="null" style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Other News</h2> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=25496b764b&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space companies are interested in making greater use of AI, but the love isn't mutual.</a> Those companies say that while they are impressed with the capabilities AI offers, implementing them on spacecraft is difficult. They cite the need for power-hungry computers that are vulnerable to radiation in the space environment, as well as the need to revise software. Still for certain missions, the potential benefits of onboard AI are too impressive to ignore, so companies are shielding terrestrial components and space-qualifying AI-optimized chips and circuit boards. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=1d6eb9a28d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A Space Systems Command office is seeking to better leverage commercial space capabilities.</a> The Commercial Space Office, or COMSO, has the mantra, "Exploit what we have, buy what we can and build only what we must." The head of COMSO, Col. Richard Kniseley, explained that means using existing capabilities in new ways and buying what is commercially available before the Space Force considers building its own systems. He noted that a commercial system that meets 70% of their needs now is preferable in many cases to building a new system. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=fe8a4ef5d1&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Standalone terminals that can switch between satellites in GEO and LEO are about to get into customer hands for the first time.</a> Legacy GEO operators have been busy drawing up acquisitions, partnerships and new constellations to offer multi-orbit services. That is partly in response to competition from LEO-only heavyweight Starlink but also to meet evolving connectivity needs in the air and other places terrestrial networks can't reach. For that multi-orbit approach to be most effective, it requires terminals that companies like Kymeta, ThinKom and others are developing that can communicate with both GEO and LEO satellites. After extensive testing, those antennas are just now reaching the market. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=02bc70cb92&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Space camera maker Simera Sense has raised nearly $15 million.</a> The company, which produces cameras for satellite manufacturers that include AAC Clyde Space, Open Cosmos and OHB System, says the funding will allow it to expand system assembly facilities out of South Africa and closer to its component producers in Europe. The funding will also will help the company fast-track the development of higher resolution and more advanced shortwave infrared camera products. Founded in 2018, Simera Sense is a specialized business unit within Simera Group, a 14-year-old multi-disciplinary engineering company based in South Africa. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=0d928a60f8&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">Launch vehicle developer Phantom Space has raised a bridge round of funding.</a> The company did not disclose the size of the round, announced Monday, but said it raised $37 million to date. Phantom Space is developing Daytona, a small launch vehicle capable of placing 500 kilograms into orbit, as well as a line of smallsats. The company is led by Jim Cantrell, who previously was CEO of another small launch vehicle company, Vector Space, until it went bankrupt in 2019. [SpaceNews]<br> <br> <a href="https://spacenews.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75806695e6f086874391c9624&id=c58b6b470d&e=21437e418b" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2b5081;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;">A startup is proposing to place data centers in orbit.</a> Lumen Space raised a $2.4 million pre-seed round that it announced Monday. The company says it has ambitions to place hundreds of satellites in orbit that will perform "edge processing" of data from other spacecraft, reducing the amount of information sent back to Earth. The funding supports work on a prototype satellite planned for launch in 2025. Several other companies are also pursuing similar plans to create in-space data centers. 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