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Spaceleaks weekly recap: 2021w9
Sunday’s email is just a recap of all the news during the week.
Worldwide:
- China tests high-thrust rocket engine for upcoming space station missions
- China selects astronauts for space station program
- Rubins and Noguchi assemble solar array support fixtures outside space station
- Israel, UAE discuss cooperation in science, space tech, innovation
- Canadian Space Agency departmental plan has spending for 2021-22 set at $403.6 million
- Space launch from British soil one step closer
- 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
- China to develop two super-heavy launchers for moon missions
- 11th Australian Space Forum (March 31) to spotlight the space sector
- Russian cosmonauts successfully complete works on the external surface of the ISS
- NASA astronauts complete 7-hour-long spacewalk outside ISS
- Josef Aschbacher is new ESA Director General
- Puerto Rico seeks partner to develop Space Port near rainforest
- State of the African Space & Satellite industry – a chat with Prof. Peter Martinez, Secure World Foundation Director
- Russia launches space satellite Arktika-M on first mission to the Arctic
- ISRO’s PSLV-C51 successfully places 19 satellites into orbit, including Brazil’s Amazonia-1 Earth observation satellite and DRDO’s satellite ‘Sindhu Netra’ to monitor activities in Indian Ocean
- Spacewalk begins process of increasing Space Station’s power capacity
- Canada to join US mission to moon
Business:
- Jeff Bezos visited the new headquarters of Relativity Space, the 3D-printing rocket builder
- Airbus wins its first Syracuse IV ground segment programme contract worth more than €100 million
- Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya sells off remaining personal stake in the space company
- Whitesides steps down from Virgin Galactic
- Chuck Beames joins Board of space situational awareness startup Slingshot
- D-Orbit commits to Marubeni partnership for global sales expansion
- ORBCOMM selected by Zachry Construction to track and monitor heavy equipment fleet
- CGI to build central satellite pooling + sharing system for ESA
- NASA updates pricing policy to full value for commercial activities on Space Station
- Linquest gets $500 million contract from U.S. Space Force for analysis support
- 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
- Thales Alenia Space lands 2nd generation Galileo deal
- Astrobotic selects lander engines & more for Griffin/VIPER Mission
- Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa seeks 8 crewmembers for moon-bound mission on SpaceX’s Starship
- Spaceflight Inc. signs multiple launch agreements to start 2021
- Slingshot Aerospace names the company’s board of advisors
- VIPER lunar rover mission cost increases
- Delayed Indonesian broadband satellite SATRIA fully funded
- Comtech completes UHP Networks acquisition after acquisition of Gilat Satellite Networks fell apart
- Stoke-Space Technologies’ raises funds for rocket 2nd stage development work
- Space startup GITAI secures USD 17.1 million in Series B funding round
- Iceye partners with Swiss Re on flood monitoring services
- Bryce Space and Technology announces name change to “BryceTech”
- Canadian co-founder of startup Phantom Space hopes to send new rockets into space in 2023
- Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation extend partnership for AI technology
- Scott A. McLaughlin picked to head New Mexico’s Spaceport America
- Laconia-based satellite service company eyes vacuum of space
- Rocket Lab to become publicly traded through merger with Vector Acquisition Corporation
- Spire Global to go public through a merger with NavSight Holdings
- Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space
- Space ISAC achieves initial operating capability with launch of member portal, threat intell sharing platform
- Hanwha Aerospace bets big on space business
- ST Engineering Geo-Insights signs partner agreement with BlackSky in Southeast Asia
- Zero Gravity Corporation announces investment from private equity firm Rock Mountain Capital
- Four Axelspace GRUS to launch at Baikonur in March
- NASA awards $7.95 million to Astra Space to provide a launch service for TROPICS Mission
- Orbital Assembly Corp. hits $1M fundraising goal, aims to have luxury space hotel open in 2027
- Indian company Devas plan to power 5G using satellite tech
- SpaceX aborts launch of Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites
Technology:
- SpaceX Starlink factory in Texas will speed up production of Dishy McFlatface
- Next Crew Dragon launch set for April 22
- 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
- SpaceX launches, lands and explodes SN10
- New design for Russian super-heavy methane-powered launch vehicle completed
- Air Force Research Lab, NORTHCOM eye commercial internet satellites for Arctic
- Australian Space Consortium to leverage Q-CTRL’s quantum-based technologies
- NASA funds research on nuclear-powered solar sails to quickly explore outer planets
- NASA, Navy test diving technology that could be used on the moon
- Kleos Space completes design review on 2nd KSF1 satellite batch
- Space-SI releases their first Multi-Spectral Image from the SFL-built NEMO-HD Smallsat
- Component fatigue caused early shutdown of Merlin engine on last SpaceX launch
- Falling foam insulation caused Chinese commercial rocket failure
- Boeing Starliner test flight postponed
- Rocket Lab unveils plans for new 8-ton class reusable rocket for mega-constellation deployment
- New rocket, Firefly’s Alpha, may be ready to launch by April
- Falcon 9 landing failure last month was caused by a hole in a “boot” on one of the Merlin engines
- China preparing to build Tiangong station in 2021, complete by 2022
- Kentucky firm Space Tango plans orbital mini space station in two years
- Diamond batteries promise to power space probes for 100 years
Reports:
- Ars technica Rocket Report: SpaceX explains landing failure, more on New Glenn delays
- Telesat Reports Full-Year Revenue Decline, Forecasts $356B Addressable Market with Lightspeed
- Space Foundation has made the report The Race to the Moon and the Promise of Cislunar Space available to you for free. Big thanks for that.
Law:
- SpaceX denounces Justice Department’s subpoena in hiring practices investigation as ‘government overreach’
- Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space and Domestic Security Committee backed a proposal (SB 936) intended to protect aerospace companies that are increasingly reusing launch equipment
- Spacenews Op-ed | Representing the private astronaut is a new step for human spaceflight — and for space lawyers
Education:
- Axiom Space Announces STARS Scholarship
- New three-year agreement with Noosphere Venture Partners supports space foundation’s annual International Student Art Contest
- Apply now to the ESA Teach with Space Online Conference
- Space Foundation is now accepting nominations for its highest honor, the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
- ISU selects Portugal as host site for the Space Studies Program in 2022
- NASA award to bring Earth, space science to Native communities
- ESA: Join the online Space Debris training course 2021
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