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Space gets safer for business with new industry watch center in Colorado Springs
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Space is getting a little safer for satellites providing imagery, communication, weather data and many other commercial services with the creation of a new industry watch center in Colorado Springs. The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center is getting started just as threats to commercial satellites are ramping up from the countries, such as Russia…
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Satellites, spacecrafts sent into orbit increase; investors hesitant to spend: Report
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Earthlings’ interaction with the celestial realm reached new heights over the past year, but investors in the space industry were not as enthusiastic about the proposition of rocketing into orbit, a report from the Space Foundation showed. The Space Foundation, a nonprofit based in Colorado Springs that provides information and education about space, released its…
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Hickenlooper’s bill to reduce space junk unanimously passes Senate
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill co-sponsored by Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper that seeks to clear dangerous debris in Earth’s orbit. The bill, called the Orbital Sustainability Act, would create a program to research, develop and demonstrate technologies to safely remove debris and to create a new market for these services. The…
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Labor supply is the ‘biggest challenge’ facing the space industry
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Space company executives, educators and industry leaders convened at the Space Symposium Thursday to discuss what Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of Blue Origin, said is the “biggest challenge” facing the space industry: lack of workers. Join Gazette reporters Wayne Heilman, Dennis Huspeni, and Jessica Snouwaert for a recap of Thuraday’s events at the Space…
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NASA, intelligence leaders discuss global threats, space exploration at Space Symposium in Colorado Springs
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Leaders at NASA and within the intelligence community spoke at the 37th Space Symposium Tuesday about the importance of building global as well as private-public partnerships in the space community and across industries. Rich Cooper, Vice President of Strategic Communications & Outreach for the Space Foundation, joins Gazette reporters Wayne Heilman and Dennis Huspeni for…
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House passes national defense bill without Lamborn provision to delay Space Command move out of Colorado
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Congressional negotiators on Tuesday dropped a provision from the annual defense bill that would have postponed any work toward moving U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, pending completion of two investigations into the decision. Leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees agreed on a final version of the $768 billion National…
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Plans to expand space program create hope for a bigger Colorado role (VIDEO)
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WASHINGTON — Federal officials laid out a plan to expand commercial space travel before U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and other lawmakers Wednesday while Colorado political leaders try to position the state to benefit from growing opportunities in the final frontier. Potentially most important for Colorado was a plan for managing space traffic described at a…
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Spaceport Colorado sets a course for the future
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By Grant Stringer and Kara Mason | Aurora Sentinel via AP There was a time we would have marveled at flying to 380,000 feet to experience the curvature of the Earth, weightlessness, and the darkness of space. In the next few decades, space travel may become so ordinary that we don’t even bat an eye.…
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BIDLACK | May the Space Force be with you?
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My dad was drafted into the US Army before Pearl Harbor, at roughly the same time as the Army leadership renamed and restructured what had been known as the Army Air Corps into the Army Air Forces. This new entity, still entirely owned and operated by the Army, was charged with air operations during World…
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Trump orders creation of ‘space force’
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President Donald Trump on Monday redoubled his efforts to create a separate military force for space, directing the Pentagon to clear the way for the new service branch ahead of a congressional move to create it. It remained unclear how the presidential pronouncement would impact Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, which now controls…
