Near Earth: Space Industry News

12/02/2025

Near Earth Lambo

Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to two months.

12/02/2025

Hunting life through a different lens...

Mission Overview The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission is planned to last two years and is targeted for launch in 2024. The mission will survey the sky in optical and near-infrared light which, though not visible to the huma...

08/02/2025

https://spacenews.com/senators-reintroduce-bill-to-authorize-commerces-space-traffic-coordination-system/

A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a bill to formally authorize a space traffic coordination system being developed by the Office of Space Commerce.

31/01/2025

Its really about what it is made of. And 1.2% chance is very low.

The discovery marks only the second time that an asteroid's impact risk has reached greater than a 1% chance.

21/10/2024

https://spacenews.com/intelsat-33e-loses-power-in-geostationary-orbit/ "Clean up on isle GEO" repeat, "Clean up on isle G - E -O" 🤷‍♀️🤷🏼‍♂️

The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific

12/05/2024

Again tonight, keep your eyes sober till 12 midnight EDT. Hopefully, another display of the Earths shield...

20/03/2024

https://www.space.com/darpa-northrop-grumman-moon-railroad

The proposed rail system could help humanity set up shop on the moon.

30/11/2023

Egret perching in a tree as two seagulls padle by at the wrecks.

15/09/2023

https://www.losangeles.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2653453/smc-stands-up-new-space-safari-program-office/ Here is a bit of the background of the US Space Force's "Space Safari Program" [we still don't know much] In the early morning hours, the VICTUS NOX spacecraft was launched, and the amazing part of this story is that the orders to launch were given just 27 hours before launch. Can you imagine how much coordination was required to launch a rocket of that size in 27 hours?? 😲

Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), recently announced the establishment of the Space Safari Program Office within SMC’s Special Programs Directorate. Space

07/04/2023

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Russia Sunset For Baikonur? A Contract Dispute With Kazakhstan Flashes Warnings For Russia's Legendary Spaceport April 06, 2023 19:12 GMT By Mike Eckel Camels graze in front of a spacecraft tracking station at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. For nearly seven decades, Baikonur has been synonym...

23/03/2023

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-tracking-a-huge-growing-anomaly-in-earths-magnetic-field

NASA is actively monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.