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SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
During the Cold War, US reconnaissance satellites monitored a Soviet airfield in the far north of the country. Harry Stranger and Dwayne Day examine the mystery of that airfield that even the best images from space could not unravel.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
While space science programs are usually associated with major space powers, there are roles for emerging players as well. Shaikh Afnan Birahim discusses what Bangladesh can do in the field with only a limited investment.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Space advocates have offered grand visions of how space can create a better, even utopian, future for humanity, efforts yet to be realized. Jeff Foust reviews a book intended to criticize those claims but which veers farr off-target at times.
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hereby announces the scheduled launch of the Mart
AI Now Institute / CSET Georgetown
CSET’s Kathleen Curlee shared her expert insight in an article published by The New York Times. The article examines how Chinese aerospace companies are making progress toward reusable rockets, potentially lowering launch costs and helping China compete with U.S. companies like SpaceX in the global…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The demand for launch services is higher than ever, but the supply of rockets today is very constrained. Jeff Foust reports on the various factors that make getting a ride to orbit today difficult and expensive, despite the promise of plummeting launch costs.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
LANYARD was not the only effort to salvage something from the Samos satellite reconnaissance program in the early 1960s. Dwayne Day discusses a similar effort to repurpose Samos hardware for a project called SPARTAN.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The race to return humans to the Moon pits not just two countries but two political philosophies. Alexander William Salter discusses how American leadership in space can establish a humane space agenda.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
One argument that critics of space settlement make is that it would be far easier to settle Antarctica. Milan Cirkovic offers several reasons why that argument is wrong.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
As the Cold War space race between the US and USSR raged, US officials tried to understand what the Soviet Union was doing. Andrea Zullo reviews several reports from that era to summarize where those efforts excelled and where they fell short.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A cancelled spysat program in the early 1960s got a second life as an NRO program called LANYARD. Dwayne Day recounts the various problems LANYARD encountered, including technical issues, launch failures, and competition from other programs.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The UN's Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Space established an "action team" in 2024 to study how to coordinate lunar activities. Giorgio Cardile offers an update on the team's work, including challenges they face on space resources.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Space activities increasingly rely on automation and AI to make decisions faster than humans. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel Dant describe how this creates challenges for determining what decisions get made and how.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Satellite activities are extensively logged, providing an audit trail for tracking down problems or determining blame. Burak Oktenli explains why the rise of quantum computing threatens the integrity of those records and what can be done in response.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Synthetic aperture radar imagery had long been considered primarily a tool for defense applications. Kateryna Sergieieva discusses how commercial SAR systems have made such imagery available for many civil uses as well.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) set up the schedule for MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Ze
NASA / ESA / JAXA
The launch date of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard H3 Launch
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NASA / ESA / JAXA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hereby announces that the launch date of MICHIBIK
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
When the NRO decided to cancel a classified satellite reconnaissance program in the early 1960s, engineers with the company that designed its camera sought to salvage that work. Dwayne Day examines how that led to an alternative satellite program called LANYARD.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
NASA has announced plans for a lunar base starting with its current Artemis architecture. Ernesto Gabriel Arias discusses an alternative approach better suited for lunar permanence.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Very small launch vehicles are at an economic disadvantage to larger vehicles. However, Evangelos Dimitriou describes how they could provide a strategic capability for some spacefaring nations.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Many space startups seek, and often struggle to raise, venture capital to scale their businesses. Samson Williams argues companies are better off first working with the government to develop technologies and secure funding before going to VCs.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Navigation and timing services provided by satellites have become ubiquitous in modern society. Jeff Foust reviews a book that explores the development of GPS and some of the challenges it now faces.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
The launch of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard H3 Launch Vehicle fligh
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The International Space Station is scheduled to be retired as soon as the end of the decade. Jeff Foust reports this is providing new urgency to efforts to preserve some aspects of the station before it is deorbited.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
NASA's next major space telescope, launching in a month, is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. Trevor Williams discusses how she spearheaded the development of a line of spacecraft missions to study the Sun.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
SpaceX's Starship performed its latest suborbital test flight last week, inching closer to orbital missions. Paul Almond says that Starship could still be useful to SpaceX even before the company demonstrates the vehicle's full reusability.