Crew-7 Arrives on ISS Following NASA, SpaceX Launch
On Saturday, Aug. 26, SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station — each representing a different agency. This is the first SpaceX Crew mission where every member is from a different country.
India P.M. Calls Safe Landing of Lunar Probe 'Dawn of a New Era'
Space workers in India celebrated Wednesday's landing of the nation's Chandrayaan-3 probe, making it the fourth nation to safely land a spacecraft on the Moon, and had their efforts lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "India is on the Moon," Modi boomed in a broadcast to the...
As Russia, India Reach for Moon, NASA Supporters Work to Stop Budget Cuts
As India and Russia race to land spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole, America’s space agency is staring down proposed budget cuts that could threaten its ambitions to return astronauts to the lunar surface.
Pentagon Pivots with Big Bet on Commercial LEO Satellites
The Pentagon placed a big bet on commercial space services when it issued its first open-ended contracts worth as much as $900 million to 16 companies offering communications and remote sensing services from low-Earth orbit.
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As Global Satellite Data Expands, Space Companies Rely on AI
While most people may think of ChatGPT or deep fake images when they hear “artificial intelligence”, AI methodologies are proving beneficial for a variety of applications, especially in data-heavy industries such as Earth observation.
Crew-7 Arrives on ISS Following NASA, SpaceX Launch
On Saturday, Aug. 26, SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station — each representing a different agency. This is the first SpaceX Crew mission where every member is from a different country.
India P.M. Calls Safe Landing of Lunar Probe ‘Dawn of a New Era’
Space workers in India celebrated Wednesday’s landing of the nation’s Chandrayaan-3 probe, making it the fourth nation to safely land a spacecraft on the Moon, and had their efforts lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India is on the Moon,” Modi boomed in a broadcast to the India’s 1.4 billion residents. The landing came as Modi was on a trip to South Africa, touting his nation as a model for growth at an economic conference also involving Brazil, Russia and China.
Recent Resources
Commercial human spaceflight revenues were estimated at $0.5 billion in 2022, which is reflected in this chart on human spaceflight.
The two new lunar-focused companies that entered the market in the first half of 2023, Intuitive Machines and ispace, are showing a relative degree of stability in their share prices after some initial volatility in the early days.
In the first half of 2023, the S-Network Space Index (SNET SPACE) underperformed other benchmark indexes, declining 0.6%. This compares to a 17% increase for the S-Network U.S. Equity 3000 Index (SNET 3000), which tracks the 3,000 largest (by market capitalization) U.S. stocks.
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