A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest (find previous space policy roundups here): Lunar programs: White House, NASA emphasize bipartisan support for lunar plans – SpaceNews.com ‘By any means necessary’: Vice President Pence urges NASA on moon-Mars … Continue reading Space policy roundup – Feb.21.2020
A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here): ** Several university CubeSats deployed from Cygnus spacecraft by Nanoracks system: Nanoracks Completes 17th Commercial Space Station CubeSat Deployment Mission | Nanoracks Nanoracks’ 17th CubeSat deployment mission included satellites launched to … Continue reading Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Feb.20.2020
A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport (find previous roundups here): ** Arianespace launches Ariane V with two spacecraft Tuesday evening: the communications satellite JCSAT-17 for SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. and the environmental monitoring satellite Geo-Kompsat-2B for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Arianespace orbits two satellites – JCSAT-17 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B … Continue reading Space transport roundup – Feb.19.2020
An announcement from NASA last Friday: Artemis Student Challenge: NASA Selects University Teams to Build Technologies for the Moon’s Darkest Areas Almost a quarter of a million miles away from home, the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions are the closest extraterrestrial water source. These craters have remained dark for billions of years, but student-developed technologies can … Continue reading NASA awards $1M to 8 college student teams for lunar technology projects
A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images related to human expansion into the solar system (see also previous space settlement postings): ** Doug Plata of the Space Development Network gave two space settlement related talks at last fall’s convention of the Mars Society. (There are many presentations available in the Convention Youtube collection.) The … Continue reading Space settlement roundup – Feb.13.2020