Focus: NewSpace
November 17, 2020
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked with the International Space Station late Monday night, and NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts have entered the ISS. The docking took place at 11:01 p.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 17, transporting NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The…
November 13, 2020
Nanoracks is building an AgTech research program in Abu Dhabi as part of an United Arab Emirates initiative to invest in its AgTech ecosystem. The StarLab Space Farming Center will be a commercial space research facility to study space-based innovations in AgTech that can be applied on Earth to address climate change-caused food insecurity. The…
October 30, 2020
On September 9, we awoke to a Martian sky. The smoke from flames scorching 3.4 million acres engulfed San Francisco’s golden gate arches, which disappeared into orange and ash. Earth — once most widely recognizable as the “Blue Marble” photographed by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 — in closeup now photographs more like an aeolian…
October 26, 2020
Airbus Ventures last week revealed that it has invested in Zero Error Systems (ZES), a Singapore-based startup debuting “smart chip” technology to protect satellites from radiation damage. The approximately $1.8 million ($2.5 million Singapore dollars) seed round will help enable the company to scale its operations, and work with international customers to deploy its products…