Rocket Lab launch also tested new kick stage
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The successful launch of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket Jan. 20 also tested a kick stage designed to circularize the orbits of its satellite ...…
Kepler’s first satellite hitched ride on last week’s Long March 11 launch
Canada's Kepler Communications is one of 11 companies that has filed for FCC licenses for Ku- or Ka-band spectrum for non-geostationary orbit satellite services.
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Space industry hit hard by military spending downturn
Pentagon spending on space activities has shifted from actual products — like rockets and satellites — to launch services.
WASHINGTON — The defense spending downturn that s...…
A changing of the guard in NASA’s hunt for exoplanets
This article originally appeared in the Jan. 15, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine.
Sometime later this year NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, orbiting the sun more than ...…
Brief shutdown offers warning of impacts to government and commercial space
WASHINGTON – The first federal government shutdown in more than four years came to a swift end Jan. 22 but served as a warning of what a future shutdown could do ...…