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SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
One question about NASA's revised plans for Artemis is how much it will cost to get astronauts back to the Moon. Robert Oler argues that Congress should investigate just how affordable those plans are.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
NASA is relying heavily on commercial partnerships in its plans to return to the Moon and establish a base there. Alexander Salter discusses why those plans will require a balance of commercial capabilities and government-led efforts.
Last Week in AI
Exploring the Fable 5 ban, SpaceX’s strategic acquisition, and a burst of open source advancements
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
On Saturday, Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully reached orbit on the first flight of its Vikram-1 rocket. Ajey Lele says this is a milestone not just for the company but the emerging Indian commercial space field.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The US commercial space industry has pushed for years for a "mission authorization" system to approve novel space activities. Jeff Foust reports on the latest attempt to develop such a system, and how it could also become an avenue to block such efforts.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The space industrial base is undergoing major changes with new players and new investment. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel Dant argue that those companies would also benefit from reforms on how the government communicates its demand for space systems.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Among the new exhibits in the National Air and Space Museum is a half-scale model of a formerly top-secret signals intelligence satellite from the Cold War known as FARRAH. Dwayne Day discusses the history of that program.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
"Once Upon a Time in Space" is a documentary series on human spaceflight airing on PBS. Emily Carney interviews filmmaker James Bluemel about the series and his approach to telling the stories from the shuttle era to the present day.
The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the international…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Throughout the Space Age the United States worked on space nuclear power and propulsion systems, although very few actually made it to space. Dwayne Day examines those programs and what went wrong.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
While the United States has made extensive use of space capabilities in its ongoing conflict with Iran, that country has also made use of space. Three experts examine Iran's access to satellite imagery and its efforts to jam satellite signals.
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Humanity has long been inspired by the night sky. Richard Logue offers a new way to provide that inspiration through a series of spacecraft that would be visible from the ground while also testing solar sail technologies.
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A payload processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center has been used for dozens of missions over the years, but one of them was not publicly documented. James Behling discusses the secrecy behind the very first mission to use that facility.
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For decades British companies worked on concepts for spaceplanes that could take off from a runway and go to space. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines those projects and the limited progress they made despite years of work.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
Regarding the rescheduled launch schedule of MICHIBIKI No.7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7)
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A growing human presence in space means expanding beyond the realm of instantaneous communications we have become accustomed to on Earth. David Rogers says that will mean fundamentally rethinking governance.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The National Air and Space Museum marked its 50th anniversary last week with a rededication. Jeff Foust reports on the nearly complete overhaul of the museum that now features several new space-related exhibits.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The Milky Way galaxy is such a huge structure that it is almost impossible for the human mind to comprehend how vast it is. Deana Weibel visits one effort to do so, in the form of a garden in Hawaii.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
While the US Space Force is a separate military branch, it still relies on the Air Force for some capabilities, including lawyers. Todd Pennington discusses why evolutions in both the Space Force and the military justice system mean that arrangement will likely change.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
SpaceX's Starship is one of the two lunar landers being developed for landing NASA astronauts on the Moon. Ethan Hicks argues that Starship's origins as a Mars vehicle create a "tax" on its use as a lunar lander that jeopardizes the schedule for Artemis.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A Pegasus XL is set this week to launch a mission to reboost NASA's Swift space telescope. Jeff Foust reports on the rapid development of the unique mission and the prospects of using that technology for other applications, including boosting Hubble.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Orbital debris poses a growing risk to satellite operations with no clear solution for addressing it. Isha Gupta proposes an approach based on regulating pollutants as a way to control the debris population.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The conflict in the Middle East may have destroyed the last of Iran's F-14 Tomcats that it bought from the US a half-century ago. Dwayne Day and Harry Stranger describe how spysats tracked the status of those planes for decades.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
One of the criticisms of space-based solar power (SPSB) systems is that the platforms would interfere with astronomy. Benjamin Calloway describes how SBSP could also create technologies to enable space-based astronomy.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The National Museum of the United States Air Force dedicated a monument last month to those who worked in a secretive organization supporting the National Reconnaissance Office during the Cold War. Dwayne Day provides more details about and photos of the memorial.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
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SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A recent $1.25 trillion cost estimate for Golden Dome caused some sticker shock. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel Dant discuss how the total cost is less important than how the program, including its space-based elements, is financed.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
A docking system developed for Apollo-Soyuz evolved over the years for use on Mir and the International Space Station. Maks Skiendzielewski charts the history of the APAS docking system.
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The conflict in the Middle East has kept many ships trapped in the Persian Gulf for months. Dwayne Day and Harry Stranger describe a similar incident in the Suez Canal more than a half-century ago that was monitored by spy satellites.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Threats to space assets mean a greater reliance on autonomy to protect them from attack. Burak Oktenli argues this means taking decisions now on what measures spacecraft can take autonomously and who will be responsible for their effects.