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Spaceleaks daily: Mar 5, 2021
Worldwide:
- China’s commercial rocket SD-3 to make maiden flight in 2022
- NASA and Boeing evaluating launch date for orbital flight test-2
- ESA and the European Defence Agency sign a deal to boost secure satellite communications
- European Space Agency funded EO AFRICA R&D facility launches in Africa
- After building ties with Brazil, Aus, ISRO eyes new opportunity with Italy
- ISS leaks may be caused by metal fatigue, micrometeorite impact
- Indonesian satellite construction to start in September of this year
Business:
- SPAC Space Acquisition I files for a $300 million IPO, targeting the “space economy”
- NASA awards Mars ascent propulsion system contract for sample return to Northrop Grumman
- ABS assures essential, high-speed connectivity to the remote Pacific islands
- DoD space agency to award multiple contracts for up to 150 satellites
- S. Korea’s Kencoa Aerospace expands space business in U.S. with new capital
Technology:
- JAXA is bringing all solid-state Lithium-ion batteries to space in 2021
- Telespazio transfers the Payload Data Processing System of the European Copernicus programme’s Sentinel-3 satellites to public cloud
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches and lands for 8th time, delivering 60 Starlink satellites to orbit
- Space Force launches experimental research payload for undisclosed research
- igus Linear Axes manufacture spare parts in space with 3D printer
Reports:
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This is a very exhaustive article on space security, including a discussion of the U.S. Space Strategy from the Cold War to the Present and the Space Force: Restraint, not superiority, in space.
I talked to Mark Boggett, CEO of Seraphim Capital, about the financing of the space industry and how the space sector is coming to maturity.
All last week’s news in a single newsletter here.
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