OneWeb Taps Airbus To Build 900 Internet Smallsats
Airbus said it will build more than 900 satellites for the planned constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites, with the first to be launched in 2018.
A New Class of Protected Satellite Communications
A new category of space-based protected tactical communications passed an important test in April. Intelsat General participated in tests led by the U.S. Air Force that validated the protected tactical waveform (PTW) modem performance over the upcoming high-throughput satellite (HTS) Intelsat EpicNG platform.
Senate Bill Partially Funds Next-Gen JPSS Satellites
Just over a week after the House stiffed the program entirely, Senate appropriators proposed less than half the funding requested in 2016 for the next generation of U.S. polar-orbiting weather satellites.
Exploring Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Just $615,000 a Day
The principal investigator behind a proposal to explore Jupiter’s moon Io is in such a hurry to get there that he is content to develop the robotic mission for about half the money the planetary science community said NASA should spend to explore the volcano-laden Jovian satellite.
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Strategic Command Envisions Civil Space Traffic Management
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Q&A with Dan Hart, Boeing’s Point Person for Government and Military Space
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Budgetary ‘Gimmicks’ Prompt White House Threat to Veto Defense Spending Bill
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Philae Lander Reawakens on Comet
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Smallsat Developers Enjoy Growth In Launch Options
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In NASA First, Cubesats Headed to Mars with InSight Lander
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Senate Spending Bill Echoes House Call To Shelve DMSP-F20
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