Space Business News
April 14, 2023
SPACE TRAVEL
Russia will use International Space Station 'until 2028'



Moscow (AFP) April 12, 2023
Russia said Wednesday it planned to use the International Space Station until 2028, an apparent reversal of an earlier announcement to quit the orbiting laboratory after 2024. In July last year, Moscow said it was leaving the International Space Station "after 2024" as ties unravelled between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine. On Wednesday, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said Moscow's participation in the international space proje ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
China bans ships from area north of Taiwan Sunday due to 'falling rocket wreckage'
Beijing (AFP) April 13, 2023
China will ban ships from entering an area north of Taiwan on Sunday due to "possible falling rocket wreckage", a provincial maritime authority said. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Rocket Lab launches new constellation-class star tracker
Long Beach CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports that a new class of star tracker, the ST-16HV, is now available for commercial use, expanding the Company's Space Systems catalogue of products for the gl ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA Boosts Open Science through Innovative Training
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2023
NASA is awarding a total of $6.5 million to U.S. institutions for education and training in open science. The promise of open science is that NASA research and data should be more collaborative, acc ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
China releases rocket rideshare schedule in 2023, 2024
Beijing (SPX) Apr 12, 2023
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has recently announced its rocket rideshare program schedule for the years 2023 and 2024. The program will consist of nine launch opportunit ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Raytheon and SpiderOak collaborate to secure satcoms in crowded LEO
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 12, 2023
Raytheon Technologies' (NYSE: RTX) BBN division and SpiderOak announced a strategic partnership to develop and field a new generation of zero-trust security systems for satellite communications in p ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
China's 3D printed afterburning liquid rocket engine tested during recent mission
Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 12, 2023
Tianbing Technology has made a breakthrough in rocket technology with the successful first flight of the Tianlong-2 liquid carrier rocket. The rocket used the liquid oxygen kerosene engine TH-11V, w ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab moves CubeSat from Virginia to New Zealand
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2023
Aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab announced that it is moving its planned launch of NASA storm-monitoring CubeSats from Virginia to New Zealand. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Orion stretches its wings ahead of first crewed Artemis mission
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 11, 2023
Before NASA's Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission can be outfitted with its solar array wings, teams at the agency's Kennedy Space Center must first verify that the arrays extend and close p ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Practice makes perfect
Paris (ESA) Apr 11, 2023
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen was at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany in March, training for his Huginn mission to the International Space Station, planned to launch later this sum ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
SmartSat funds research projects for Space Qualification Mission Waratah Seed
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 10, 2023
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia's largest space research centre, is committing over AU$1 million to support the development of new space technology that will be tested in space ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX prepares for rehearsal, test flight of Starship rocket
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2023
SpaceX plans to carry out a launch rehearsal next week of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and its first test flight possibly the following week, the private space company said Thursday. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab updates launch location for NASA's TROPICS mission
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 11, 2023
A NASA constellation of four storm tracking CubeSats are getting a new launch location as they prepare to study tropical cyclones beginning in the 2023 At ... more

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