by Gordon Roesler | Apr 13, 2025 | News
It appears that Jared Isaacman will be the new NASA Administrator. In his confirmation hearing, he indicated that he would commit NASA to a human mission to Mars, but also evaluate the potential for continuous human presence on the Moon. I would not have expected him...
by Gordon Roesler | Jan 20, 2025 | News
[Illustration of the 1997 ETS-VII autonomous docking mission. Credit: JAXA] With its SpaDex mission, India has demonstrated the ability to couple two satellites together in space without astronauts. You can read a brief discussion here:...
by Gordon Roesler | Aug 26, 2021 | News
Astroscale, the international space debris cleanup, has successfully demonstrated capture of a simulated debris object in low Earth orbit. The object has been equipped with a special capture plate that matches the magnetic capture device on the ELSA-D spacecraft. The...
by Gordon Roesler | Jun 16, 2021 | News
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its 31st summit meeting on Monday, June 14. As usual, the summit concluding with the issue of a very lengthy communiqué, covering all sorts of security and defense issues. A link to the complete communiqué is below....
by Gordon Roesler | Feb 27, 2021 | News
Servicing satellites–inspecting them, giving them more fuel or life, repairing things, adding new capabilities–makes so much economic sense. It would also help them survive in a space battle. But for the longest time, none of the government space programs...
by Gordon Roesler | Nov 20, 2020 | News
From a colleague at ESA: “The foundations of the first Moon-base may not be laid for another decade but preparations are well underway. The pioneers of tomorrow’s space industry are busy today anticipating the need for a fair and sustainable space-based economy....
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