ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Friday 25 March 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Friday 25 March 2022
A daily roundup of space news
Financing space-derived data as commodities When the major assets of space companies are spacecraft that cannot easily be
repossessed in the event of default, it can be difficult to secure some kinds of financing.
Lucien and Paul Rapp propose one solution that treats the data those spacecraft generate
as commodities.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 22nd flightNASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 22nd flight, the space agency announced.
"The trip lasted 101.4 seconds and Ingenuity got up to 33 feet in the air," NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory said in a tweet.
SpaceX Cuts Ties with Satellite Rideshare Integrator Spaceflight Inc.SpaceX cut ties with long-time partner Spaceflight Inc., which integrates customer
payloads on rideshare launches.
SLS crawls towards its first launchNASA’s Space Launch System rolled out to the launch pad for the first time last week for
a countdown test ahead of a launch later this summer. Jeff Foust reports on that
milestone in the vehicle’s long-delayed development amid broader concerns about the
state of the Artemis program.
Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for
crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning
turned on and your phone will record small variations in satellite signals, gathering data
for machine learning analysis of meteorology and space weather patterns.
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