NASA and other global space programs (excluding Indian) news, Updates and Discussions

[ketaki]

the most important launch from Russia this year...a new russian module to the ISS was launched yesterday

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after series of orbital glitches and serious stress for ISS, engineers and astronauts...finally the Nauka is ready to be boarded...

 

[ketaki]

2nd Private space taxi to ISS (after SpaceX dragon)...Boeing's Starliner...ready for today's 2nd Unmanned test flight.
Next flight will be with astronauts to ISS

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[ketaki]

SpaceX, Installing Starship booster (when ready, world's most powerful rocket, EVER!!!) engines for first orbital test flight

even the mighty Saturn V, N1 and SLS (Moon Rockets) will look smaller in comparison



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the Giant is being born...

 

[ketaki]

the Giant is being born...
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almost there folks...

the future of mankind into space is about to get revolutionized

for "size comparison" .... there is a famous say in india..."sau sonaar ki, ek lohaar ki" meaning ..."one blow from an ironsmith is equal to 100 blows of goldsmith"

 

[ketaki]

almost there folks...

the future of mankind into space is about to get revolutionized

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for "size comparison" .... there is a famous say in india..."sau sonaar ki, ek lohaar ki" meaning ..."one blow from an ironsmith is equal to 100 blows of goldsmith"

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speechless

the future is visible

 

[skywatcher]

size of all the retired, active & in development

 

[leon66]

Another interesting point about NASA. ESA and NASA are going to make a partnership in the environmental project. The first-ever partnership of its kind is based on observing Earth and environmental issues. This campaign will be based on observing the Earth from space with the help of satellite technology in order to save the environment on Earth. Such kind of stuff will be observed like coral reefs, glaciers, and other things that are in danger now.

 

[Maharaj samudragupt]

Another interesting point about NASA. ESA and NASA are going to make a partnership in the environmental project. The first-ever partnership of its kind is based on observing Earth and environmental issues. This campaign will be based on observing the Earth from space with the help of satellite technology in order to save the environment on Earth. Such kind of stuff will be observed like coral reefs, glaciers, and other things that are in danger now.

Where you are from comrade ?

 

[leon66]

Where you are from comrade ?

Ukraine

 

[chetan_chpd]

2nd Private space taxi to ISS (after SpaceX dragon)...Boeing's Starliner...ready for today's 2nd Unmanned test flight.
Next flight will be with astronauts to ISS
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2nd space/ISS taxi is lagging a lot behind spaceX dragon...even the unmanned test flight is cancelled due to problems found during pad tests...boeing is really making a mess out of it, while spaceX has been sending people to ISS regularly

 

[chetan_chpd]

USA, Texas and mighty rockets

 

[chetan_chpd]

On July 1st a Soyuz rocket is set to launch an additional 36 OneWeb broadband satellites into orbit. The launch will take place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, and handled by Arianespace and its local partner Starsem.

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looks like again this Soyuz launch is scrubbed

 

[chetan_chpd]

looks like again this Soyuz launch is scrubbed

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finally launched...OneWeb satellite constellation is in race/compitition with SpaceX's 'Starlink' satellite constellation for providing internet from space

 

[chetan_chpd]

'Lunar Outpost' company is building a lunar rover that will collect moon dust and other materials from the South Pole of the moon. Planned to get launched in 2022.

following is no JOKE...

Lunar Outpost plans on using its autonomous lunar rover to collect lunar dust it will then sell to NASA for $1 as a test of how to create a legal framework for transfer of space resources that will eventually be used to build structures on the moon for a permanent base, said Justin Cyrus, the company's CEO. Using resources from the moon for a future flight to Mars could cut the cost of the mission by an estimated $12 billion, he said.

 

[chetan_chpd]

after series of orbital glitches and serious stress for ISS, engineers and astronauts...finally the Nauka is ready to be boarded...

beautiful view from window of Nauka module recently added to ISS

 

[chetan_chpd]

finally launched...OneWeb satellite constellation is in race/compitition with SpaceX's 'Starlink' satellite constellation for providing internet from space

in case you are wondering why Indian Flag in OneWeb launches?

answer:
OneWeb’s ninth launch finally got off the pad at the weekend, just 48 hours late after an unexpected technical problem on Thursday.

The company, whose biggest shareholder is India’s Bharti group, now has 288 of its planned 648 satellites in orbit.

Lest anyone forget, in 2020, OneWeb was on the verge of oblivion. Having spent $3.4 billion of investors’ money, the company went bankrupt last March. It was brought back from the brink last November by the UK government and India’s Bharti Global, which each paid $500 million for the privilege. The latter recently announced it will exercise a call option later this year that will see it invest a further $500 million into OneWeb.

 

[skywatcher]

Global space economy swells in spite of the pandemic

Global space economy swells in spite of the pandemic

spacenews.com

Global space economy swells in spite of the pandemic

COLORADO SPRINGS – The overall space economy expanded 4.4 percent to $447 billion in 2020 with more nations participating than ever before, according to the Space Foundation’s updated Space Report.

Global government spending on military and civil space programs, however, declined slightly in 2020 compared with 2019.

“Overall, there was the slightest decline, down 1.2 percent,” said Lesley Conn, Space Foundation senior manager in research and analysis, said Aug. 23 during a press briefing at the 36th Space Symposium.

Commercial activity continues to account for the lion’s share of the overall space economy with commercial space products and services claiming $219.44 or 49.1 percent of the money spent in the global space economy in 2020. Commercial infrastructure and support activities accounted for another $137.23, 30.7 percent of the total market.

The U.S. government spent $51.8 billion on civil and military space in 2020, contributing 11.6 percent of the global space economy. All other governments contributed $38.4 billion or 8.6 percent of the total.

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, government spending on space rose in 2020 in the United States, China, Spain, France, Germany and for the European Space Agency. France’s domestic space budgets jumped 40 percent year over year.

In contrast, government space expenditures fell in Russia, Italy, India and Brazil in 2020, compared with 2019.

Some nations did elevate spending, but “it just wasn’t enough to offsets some of the corrections that were made in 2020,” Conn said. “In 2021, we do anticipate that there will be a return to space spending and we’ll see those budgets adjust accordingly.”

In 2020, the United States, European Space Agency and China accounted for more than 81 percent of global government space outlays.

Military space spending overall dipped modestly in 2020, according to the Space Report.

Since the Space Foundation began publishing the Space Report in 2005, the global space economy has surged 176 percent.

“A lot of that is fueled by commercial growth,” Conn said.

With each edition of the Space Report, analysts include data on nations beginning to enter the space sector. The new report notes space-related activity in nearly a dozen nations not tracked in previous reports.

Employment in the space sector was relatively stable in 2020. There were additional spacecraft manufacturing jobs, while space telecommunications employment decreased.

The changes were “relatively steady across the year,” said Mariel Borowitz, associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. “So, not so much pandemic-related as larger trends that were already happening.”

The new report also highlights an uptick in space launch activity. During the first half of 2021, there were 61 successful space launches, compared with 45 for the first six months of 2020 and 41 in 2019.

“We do anticipate that at year-end, we will have numbers to show that same level of [launch activity] growth,” Conn said.

What’s more, boosters were recovered in one out of every three space launches conducted during the first half of 2021.

“As you might anticipate it is largely driven by SpaceX and the work that they’ve done,” Conn said.

Emerging space nations tend to enter the space sector by establishing partnerships with prominent space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency and the China National Space Administration, Conn said.

With the assistant of partners, the emerging space nations often build and launch cubesats or nanosatellite payloads before establishing their own programs to develop space-based communications, agricultural monitoring or environmental monitoring, Conn added.

 

[chetan_chpd]

Y'all Nibbiars...you gotta look at this funny sh*t

 

[skywatcher]

US startup Firefly's kerolox rocket Alpha's first orbital launch attempt this week. Stay tuned.

 

[skywatcher]

Firefly's first orbit launch failed. Another 4 US startups Relativity Space, Vector Space, ABL Space and Aveum Space are yet to make their first orbital launch. Stay tuned.