According to experts at the Satellite 2021 conference, recruiting and keeping a diverse workforce takes time and effort, but it can help businesses prosper. Debra Facktor, who works as the head in charge of the Space Systems for the Airbus US Space and Defense Corporation, believes that diverse teams perform better. “It’s simply a fact. Their stock is worth
Scientists, nonprofit organizations, application developers, and disaster response organizations will benefit from the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data collected by Capella Space’s satellite network, the company stated on September 14. Capella deployed its Open Data Program by offering 60 SAR scenes of locations on every continent, which are high-resolution, including energy and natural resources, agriculture and aquaculture, infrastructure, environmental, maritime, natural
Spire Global, a recently listed satellite constellation operator, is buying exactEarth, a Canadian ship-tracking company, in its first big acquisition, raising anticipation of greater space consolidation amid the wave of public corporations. Based in Vienna, Virginia, which has 110 Lemur satellites in the low Earth orbit and offers analysis and data-gathering services in marine and other industries,
According to connectivity experts participating at Satellite 2021 conference on September 8, more industry collaborations will be critical for decreasing costs and providing customers with a terrestrial-like encounter with satellite broadband. “Probably no one will be able to invest enough resources to have the optimal system,” said Steve Collar, CEO of satellite operator SES, who video
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, two defense industry giants, have invested in Orbit Fab, which is a San Francisco-centered startup that aims to build gas stations in orbit to refuel satellites and extend their lives; the firms revealed. Orbit Fab wants to develop a fleet of tankers and fuel shuttles that can connect with aged satellites and
Although NASA’s chief scientist expressed hope for future exchange of Apollo-era lunar specimens with those retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, the agency presently has no intentions to do so. At the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group’s annual conference on August 31, Jim Green noted that limits in US legislation on bilateral collaboration between NASA and Chinese
The modest room on the first floor of Kenyatta University’s Chandaria Incubation Centre is certainly too small for the enormous ideas it houses. Inside, Manilla papers with sophisticated computations and designs cover the room’s walls, showing trails of sorts. On the benches are various devices, models, and wires protruding from a device we later learn
Rocket Lab will launch three satellites for Earth observation startup BlackSky in approximately a month, marking the business’s quickest launch cadence to date. Rocket Lab announced on August 10 that the three launches would occur from New Zealand between late August and the close of September, as part of the multi-launch arrangement agreed with BlackSky and
A merger between a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and in-space transportation startup Momentus was approved by SPAC shareholders on August 11, the first of several such mergers scheduled to close in the coming month. At a special meeting, Stable Road Acquisition Corporation shareholders approved a merger with Momentus, with 97 percent voting in support of
