CESSON-SEVIGNE, France (Syrlinks PR) — Syrlinks, the worldwide leader in the design of RF Communication systems for Space and Nara Space, a newspace startup in South Korea that builds nano satellite constellations, are proud to announce their partnership in the integration of Syrlinks’s compact X-Band Transmitter – EWC27.

Nara Space has developed a unique 12U satellites called BUSANSAT which will collect marine spatial information and monitor marine fine dust. The 1 year lifetime satellite will be launch in 2024.

HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA will provide live coverage of key events as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will launch aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 21 (6:54 p.m. Baikonur time). Coverage will begin at 9 a.m. on NASA Television’s Public Channel, the NASA app, and on the agency’s website.

SpaceX has appealed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to deny $885.5 million in subsidies that Elon Musk’s company was preliminarily awarded to provide broadband services to rural areas using its Starlink satellite constellation. The company disputed the FCC’s rationale that the system is too slow and costs too much.

“The Wireline Competition Bureau’s decision to exclude Starlink from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (“RDOF”) is flawed as a matter of both law and policy,” wrote SpaceX attorney Dan Goldman. “It fails legally because it contradicts the record—including SpaceX’s and Starlink’s proven capabilities—it contradicts the Commission’s stated rules for the program, and it rests on unsupported conjecture and outside-the-record information apparently cherry-picked from somewhere on the Internet.”

The Department of Defense (DOD) and intelligence community (IC) need to better define roles and responsibilities for the acquisition of commercial satellite imagery in order to avoid wasteful overlap, incorporate emerging capabilities and meet the growing military and competitive challenges posed by China, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

“The IC and DOD have established requirements for future commercial acquisitions focused primarily on foundational intelligence but have limited ability to incorporate emerging commercial satellite capabilities in a timely manner,” the report said. “Although they have explored utilizing emerging capabilities, the IC and DOD have not developed an effective approach to bring these capabilities into geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) operations. “Without doing so, the U.S. may lose ground in space to competitors such as China, and the U.S. commercial industry may be limited in their ability to compete with foreign competitors.”

KISTA, Sweden (OHB Sweden PR) — After a successful market experience in various international markets, both companies, Satlantis from Spain and OHB from Sweden, have signed a contract to supply together two micro satellites, based on the OHB Sweden InnoSat platform.

These satellites will embark four optical channels provided by Satlantis, from 80 cm GSD optical resolution to 26 km swath, infrared band coverage (up to 1.7 microns) and 12 filters in a maximum swath of 26 km, providing the leading market solution in small satellite under 150 kg.

HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA is seeking proposals for two new private astronaut missions to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s efforts to open space to more people than ever before. With these opportunities, U.S. commercial companies will continue to play an essential role in establishing a sustained presence in low-Earth orbit (LEO) through the agency’s Commercial LEO Development Program.

The targeted flight opportunities will occur between late 2023 and 2024. 

LONG BEACH, Calif. (Rocket Lab PR) — Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, has delivered its 30^th mission and 150^th satellite to orbit following its latest successful Electron launch earlier today.

“The Owl Spreads Its Wings” dedicated mission for Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at 20:38 UTC, September 15, 2022. The mission successfully deployed a single spacecraft, the StriX-1 satellite, to a 563km circular Earth orbit, where it will join other StriX satellites launched by Rocket Lab in February 2022 and December 2020 as part of Synspective’s Earth-observation satellite constellation.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., September 15, 2022 (CASIS PR) – The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory today released a new research announcement soliciting flight concepts for “Technology Advancement and Applied Research Leveraging the ISS National Lab.” This solicitation seeks flight projects within the areas of applied research and development, translational medicine, technology readiness level maturation, and technology demonstration.

• Intuitive Machines is a diversified space exploration, infrastructure, and services company with marquee contracts supporting space exploration and NASA’s $93 billion Artemis program.
• Intuitive Machines is a leading participant in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, having been awarded contracts for three missions to date, more than any other contractor.
• For its first mission scheduled for no earlier than Q1 2023, an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, is expected to transport government and commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon, marking the United States’ first return to the Moon since NASA’s last Apollo mission in 1972.
• Intuitive Machines currently has $188 million in contracted backlog and expects to generate approximately $102 million in revenue in 2022. Intuitive Machines is expected to have a pro forma equity value of more than $1 billion, assuming there are no redemptions by IPAX‘s public stockholders.
• $55 million in committed capital and a $50 million equity facility has been secured in conjunction with the business combination with Inflection Point which Intuitive Machines expects will fund its business plan to profitability over the next 2-3 years.
• Intuitive Machines’ shareholders will roll 100% of their existing equity holdings into the combined company.

HOUSTON and NEW YORK, September 16, 2022 (Intuitive Machines/Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. PR) — Intuitive Machines, LLC (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a leading space exploration, infrastructure, and services company founded in 2013,and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: IPAX, IPAXU, IPAXW) (“Inflection Point”),a special purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will result in Intuitive Machines becoming publicly listed.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — NASA has adjusted the targeted dates for a cryogenic demonstration test and to the next launch opportunities for Artemis I, the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon. The agency will conduct the demonstration test no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 21, and has updated its request for a launch opportunity Sept. 27, with a potential backup opportunity of Oct. 2 under review.

Rocket Lab Electron Rocket Lab is today targeting no earlier than 20:30 UTC on September 15 (16:30 EDT/13:30 PDT) for the lift-off of its next mission, a dedicated launch for Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective.  Electron will launch StriX-1 (“The Owl Spreads Its Wings”) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Pad B. This is the third launch on Electron for Synspective since 2020. Liftoff is Set for: UTC | 20:38, September 15EDT | 16:38, September 15PDT | 13:38, September 15JST | 05:38, […]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., September 15, 2022 (CASIS PR) – Since 2011, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) has managed the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory through a Cooperative Agreement with NASA. This week, NASA announced the extension of this Cooperative Agreement for CASIS to manage the ISS National Lab through 2027.