His love for space was so strong that he joked that when he was interviewed to be one of the first people at a new space organization, that he was willing to work for free.
Read More »Canada’s Power Grid at risk due to Space Weather
Canada needs to invest in more Space Weather services and research to mitigate potential significant impacts to the electrical power grid according to a new economic study.
Read More »Canada in negotiations with NASA to send a rover to the Moon
In a presentation to the space community in late May, the Canadian Space Agency outlined some of its latest lunar plans, including announcing it was in negotiations with NASA to send a rover to the moon.
Read More »Interstellar Mining’s Jeff Plate on space resource utilization
With the recent announcement by NASA of the Artemis Accords and the White House Executive Order on space resource utilization, we wanted interview someone from the commercial space sector.
Read More »Former Space Station Commander Tim Kopra joins MDA
Tim Kopra, a former Army Colonel, helicopter pilot, NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander, has joined MDA as the Vice President, Robotics and Space Operations. Kopra joins MDA from Blue Bear Capital where he was a partner and advisor. According to the MDA press release, Blue Bear Capital, a private equity firm, “invests in high-growth technology companies and start-ups across the energy, infrastructure and …
Read More »With UK move GHGSat looks to further secure global presence
GHGSat has made another move to further secure its global presence, this time inking a new initiative with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) along with announcing plans for a new UK base of operations.
Read More »SpaceX successfully launches astronauts for the first time
At 3:22 pm EDT a SpaceX rocket with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley successfully launched on a mission to test the new Crew Dragon capsule. The two astronauts will spend about 19 hours catching up the International Space Station (ISS) where they will spend at least six weeks. NASA has yet to decide on how long they’ll stay. That will in part depend on …
Read More »A Terranauts guide to leaving the planet – Rocket Science
In this episode of Terranauts, Iain Christie discusses the history of rocket science as part of a new series, a Terranauts guide to leaving the planet.
Read More »Weather scrubs SpaceX Crew Demo 2 launch
Everything with the launch countdown was going perfectly except for the weather. And then at T-minus 16:53 minutes SpaceX scrubbed the launch.
Read More »SpaceX Crew Demo 2 launch a unique moment
Should the weather hold up, and so far it is, tomorrow afternoon America and the world will be watching a unique moment in history with the launch of the SpaceX Crew Demo 2 mission.
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