Keith’s Note: Live from Antarctica: Why the Ice Matters Join Miles O’Brien on Thursday 15 Jan at 12:00 PM EST for a real-time conversation from the bottom of the world—about science, exploration, and why Antarctica matters to all of us. Link https://youtu.be/LIdharrlzbM
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Keith’s note: SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened and all Starlink simulators were deployed. When operational, each Starship launch will deploy an additional 60Tb of coverage to the orbital Starlink constellation – 20 times the amount of satellites that a Falcon 9 workhorse currently does. The upper stage then landed precisely on target in the Indian Ocean after doing some wild banking maneuvers on the way down. I did launch coverage on Bloomberg Radio (audio) and I was on Deutsche Welle TV to do landing coverage. (audio)
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Keith’s note: NASA Won two an Emmy award last night at the 46th News and Documentary Emmy Awards but NASA.gov and @NASA have said nothing about this. There was even a big NASDAQ banner on Time Square. NASA OCOMM and PAO ignores its own great stuff. Let’s not tell anyone how Great NASA is in Space etc. Update: they finally mentioned it on Twitter a full day after the award event. But still nothing on NASA.gov – But wait – its not mentioned on NASA’s home page – the link on the Twitter post is from May 2025 about nominations. Really NASA, why is it so hard to cheer on your own accomplishments in a timely fashion?
Keith’s note: Yesterday I did launch coverage of Crew 10 on Bloomberg TV with Chad Anderson from Space Capital. Tonight I spoke with Deutsche Welle about the impending arrival of Crew 10 at the International Space Station and the return of Crew 9 to Earth. [Audio] – Video of the DW interview below.
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Keith’s note: I was just on Alhurra TV (a VOA Arabic language network) talk about space weather and the solar maximum period that has been reached by our sun. More info from NASA. Also, there is an Internet rumor that keeps popping up that says that NASA issued a scary warning that all the Internet could go out. Well, that popped up in March and Snopes et al knocked it down. But it has come back. So I did my best to place things back into context. Just remember: I am being translated into and out of Arabic in real time so, as a former interpreter myself (ASL), I adopt a way of talking that makes it easier for the translator to convert technical terms and concepts into things that a larger audience – globally – can better understand. [Audio]
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(more…)At the beginning of April we wrote a letter to you, our readers. For the first time in twenty years of operation we asked for your help. To those of you who read our letter and are supporting us, thank you. We don’t have a paywall, out content is freely available. But to continue on, and do our job, we need the support of many more of you. We know […]
NASA FISO Presentation: Inflatable Antenna for CubeSats “Now available is the May 6, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Alessandra Babuscia (NASA JPL) who discussed “Inflatable Antenna for CubeSats”. Marc’s note: Harley Thronson of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Dan Lester of the University of Texas, to their credit, have been holding almost regular weekly “Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Presentations” since 2006. […]
Commercial Space Watch is now SpaceRef Business, SpaceRef Marc’s note: SpaceRef is committed to providing timely, useful news and analysis on a wide variety of topics. Our web site focusing on business has been up until today called Commercial Space Watch. Today I’m happy to announce that in the first of many changes to the site we”re rebranding it as SpaceRef Business (spaceref.biz). Over the coming months you’ll see increased […]
SpaceRef and the Secure World Foundation Enter Agreement on Multimedia Content Distribution, SpaceRef “SpaceRef Interactive Inc. and the Secure World Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the purpose of disseminating original multimedia content from Secure World Foundation events. The first event to be distributed through SpaceRef’s network is the Secure World Foundation release of the 2012 Space Security Index Executive Summary.”
Marc’s note: As of yesterday SpaceRef is now using a new provider, MailChimp, for our mailing lists. With the change we’ll better able to respond to the needs of our readers. The upgrade includes a switch from our text based newsletter to an HTML based newsletter although you can opt to receive text only. We’ll use a basic design for now, but will upgrade and enhance the newsletter as we […]
Marc’s note: Last Friday SpaceRef upgraded its site search engine which is now available on NASA Watch, SpaceRef, Commercial Space Watch and SpaceRef Canada. The new site search includes content from these SpaceRef web sites: NASA Watch, SpaceRef, SpaceRef Canada, Commercial Space Watch, OnOrbit, The Astrobiology Web and NASA Hack Space. I think you’ll find the search very responsive and accurate and is updated continually.
Marc’s note: Last week we upgraded our comment system to a new version from our provider Disqus, however we’ve had reports of some users experiencing problems. We’ve informed Disqus of the issues and have reverted back to the previous version. When they fix the current version we’ll do the upgrade.
