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Growing Orbital Dangers Drive U.S. ASAT Proposal, Strategic Questions
U.S. leaders have noted growing threats in space from satellites designed to manipulate, damage, destroy or even hijack orbital targets, ground-based lasers and creative hackers.
Space Employment Speeds Back Up Despite U.S. Labor Market Slowdown
After a slowdown in hiring in the last half of 2022, U.S. space-related employment numbers through July 2023 are showing signs of recovery.
Quilty Space 2023 Q3 Transaction Update
For the quarter, the S&P 500 index saw a loss of 4%, and the NASDAQ posted a loss of 4%. While our Core Satellite and Space Index outperformed both indices posting a gain of 3%, the Frontier Index, largely comprised of emerging companies, lost 11%, driven by perceived risk and balance sheet issues in some of those composite companies.
Space Policy, Monitoring Increasingly Crucial Amid Rise in UAP Reports
In 1952, former Director of Central Intelligence Walter Bedell Smith estimated the chances of UFOs posing a threat to national security to be one in 10,000, “but even that chance could not be taken.”
U.S. Space Firms Face Dilemma as Trade Student Numbers Sink
As the space industry works to mass-produce satellites and launch vehicles, space firms continue to struggle to acquire skilled labor.
OSIRIS-REx Delivers Asteroid Sample After Seven Years in Space
After more than a decade’s worth of planning, seven years of space flight, and 1 billion miles of travel, a sample from the asteroid Bennu has returned to Earth — but the work is only beginning.
OSIRIS-REx delivers asteroid sample after seven years in space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu, which could help scientists better understand the formation of the solar system. After more than a decade of planning and seven years of space flight traversing more than 1 billion miles, a sample from the asteroid Bennu safely landed on Earth.
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. India’s Chandrayaan-3 is poised to make a soft lunar landing, which would make the nation one of only four spacefaring powers to ever place a payload safely on 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.
Lessons from Earthbound Launchpad Failures Inform Future Missions to Moon, Mars
The incredible power in rocket boosters is magnificent when they are safely in the sky, but basic laws of physics are problematic closer to the ground, with every action creating an equal and concrete-shredding reaction. Now, with the Moon and Mars in NASA’s sights, engineers are working to overcome the dangers rocket thrust could bring when landing and taking off without the safety of a launchpad.