A FRENCH SPACE STARTUP IS LAUNCHING WINE INTO ORBIT - If the space industry these days really is an opportunity on par with the dawn of the internet, Nicolas Gaume is a businessman built to take advantage. Gaume believes in the future. He founded his first technology company, which made video games, as a 19-year old in 1990. “I’ve built nine different companies in very different areas,” he told Quartz last year. “I was a millionaire, I was a billionaire, I was bankrupt, I was a millionaire again.”   More
(Source: Quartz - Nov 3)

ANTARES LAUNCHES CYGNUS CARGO SPACECRAFT ON FIRST CRS-2 MISSION - A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket successfully launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station Nov. 2, kicking off a new era in cargo delivery for the station. The Antares 230+ rocket lifted off from Pad 0-A at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport here at 9:59 a.m. Eastern. The Cygnus spacecraft, named by Northrop Grumman the S.S. Alan Bean after the late Apollo-era astronaut, separated from the rocket’s upper stage about eight and a half minutes later. The Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the ISS Nov. 4, grappled by the station’s robotic arm at around 4:10 a.m. Eastern and berthed to the station later that morning. It will remain on the station until January.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 2)

SMALL SATELLITE STARTUP KEPLER OPENS SIGN-UPS FOR ITS IOT DEVELOPER KITS - Kepler Communications, the Toronto-based startup that’s focused on developing and deploying shoebox-sized satellites to provide telecommunications services, is opening up registration for those interested in getting their first developer kits. These developer kits, designed to help potential commercial customers take advantage of its Internet of Things (IoT) narrowband connectivity deploying next year, will then be made available to purchase for elect partners next year.   More
(Source: TechCrunch - Nov 1)

WASHINGTON STUDENTS TO MAKE SATELLITE HISTORY WITH HUSKYSAT-1 - Students are often told words of encouragement, such as "the sky is the limit." These University of Washington students opted to shoot for the stars instead. “It will be exciting once it’s in orbit,” Paige Northway said in a press statement. “To me, the completion will be when we can get data from the satellite and send instructions back.”   More
(Source: KOMO News - Nov 1)

INDIA’S SPACE STATION LIKELY TO HAVE SPACE FOR THREE - The Indian Space Station, which the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to put in place in five to seven years, will have space for three astronauts, sources told TOI. The space station will be an extension of the human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan. TOI has learned that the initial designs for the space station - still in a nascent stage - suggest a 20-tonne modular abode in the low earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of 120km to 140km.    More
(Source: Times of India - Oct 31)

WHO WILL BE ABLE TO FIX A SATELLITE FOR THE AIR FORCE IN 2025? - The Air Force wants to know what kind of on-orbit services the commercial space industry will be able to offer the military in 2025. The service’s Space and Missile Systems Center issued a request for information Oct. 25 asking industry what innovative solutions they will be able to bring to bear on a number of topics, from hosted payloads or ridesharing to the on orbit maneuvering of satellites, in the five-year period starting in 2025.    More
(Source: C4ISRNet - Oct 31)

HERE'S WHAT CALIFORNIA'S KINCADE WILDFIRE LOOKS LIKE FROM SPACE - Northern California’s Kincade wildfire has grown so large that a satellite was able to record the plumes from 22,300 miles away in space. The fire that began on Oct. 23 has grown to burn more than 66,200 acres of Sonoma county and is so far only 5% contained. As of Monday, three people have died, at least two first responders have been injured, 96 structures like homes and businesses have been destroyed and an additional 16 structures have been damaged.   More
(Source: TIME - Oct 30)

TINY NASA SATELLITE WILL SOON SEE 'RAINBOWS' IN CLOUDS - NASA's next attempt to map invisible specks in the atmosphere that impact climate change and air quality started from a window seat over the Pacific. Vanderlei Martins, a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, was flying across the Pacific Ocean a few years ago when he looked out the window and decided to photograph the bright white clouds floating by. On a whim, he took out a polarizer, similar to a sunglasses lens, and rotated in front of his camera as he snapped photos. The result? "I saw rainbows in the clouds," Martins said.   More
(Source: Phys.org - Oct 29)

A POSSIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR GIVING NAMES TO NAMELESS SATELLITES - There are many satellites in space and we know which launch put most of them up there. But there are a number of them that are not associated with a specific launch, though it would be desirable to identify which put them into orbit. This article is about a technique which could help associate objects in space with particular launches, one that I am currently developing. But let’s start with some background information: what do we know about most satellites?    More
(Source: The Space Review - Oct 29)

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