Tag: Space
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Rocket Report: Lack of transparency on Ariane 6, drastic cuts Down Under
Welcome to Edition 6.05 of the Rocket Report! This week’s newsletter has the distinction of including not one, but two items of news from Australia. Unfortunately, one of the items suggests rough waters lie ahead for the country’s young commercial space industry. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to miss…
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NASA Space Standards
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has developed a wide range of standards to ensure space missions’ safety, reliability, and success. These standards cover various aspects of space exploration, spacecraft design, human spaceflight, security, hardware, environmental considerations, etc. Given below are the common NASA space standards along with their purposes:- Standard Name Purpose NASA-EEE-INST-001 Guidelines…
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European Space Standards
European Space Agency (ESA) has developed space standards in Europe. These standards cover a wide range of aspects related to space missions, space systems, and space technology. Standard Name Purpose ECSS-E-ST-10 Framework for system engineering processes in space missions. ECSS-E-ST-20 Framework for environmental and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements for space missions. ECSS-E-ST-30 Framework for electrical…
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NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet.…
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NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet.…
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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter. NASA announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the US Department of Defense to launch a nuclear-powered rocket…
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A promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues
Astranis, a company seeking to provide Internet connectivity from geostationary space, said in May that its “Arcturus” satellite was successfully deployed following a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket. After taking control of the satellite, Astranis then began to send commands and update the flight software before raising Arcturus’ orbit and slotting it into a…
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A promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues
Astranis, a company seeking to provide Internet connectivity from geostationary space, said in May that its “Arcturus” satellite was successfully deployed following a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket. After taking control of the satellite, Astranis then began to send commands and update the flight software before raising Arcturus’ orbit and slotting it into a…
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Rocket Report: Space Force to pick three; Pythom strikes back
Welcome to Edition 6.03 of the Rocket Report! Today marks the 54th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. For decades this has meant a time to reflect on the glories of the past. But finally, with the Artemis Program, we can also look forward with hope about what is coming. That is…
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US military leans into megaconstellations after their “resiliency” in Ukraine
The leader of the United States Space Command, an Army general named James H. Dickinson, said Wednesday that megaconstellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink network have played an important role in Ukraine’s efforts to deter an invasion by Russia. “We are seeing for the first time what a megaconstellation means to the world,” Dickinson said. “That provides…