T-Minus: Space-Cyber Briefing

Italian space logistics startup D-Orbit has raised more than $109 million in a funding round led by Japan's Marubeni. Spain-based Sateliot has secured €6 million Euros in new funding from Banco Santander. The European Space Agency says its EO4Security platform to fight environmental crime and monitor illegal activities from space, is fully operational, and more.  

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Banco Santander funds Sateliot with 6 million through its high growth enterprise program

ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing

New ESA Environmental Security Project Goes Live - Via Satellite

Axiom Space Flight Readiness Review Complete, Ax-3 Proceeds to Next Mission Milestone

China to launch 26,000 satellites, vying with U.S. for space power - Nikkei Asia

NASA Funds Laser Communications Tech with Small Business

NASA Selects Crew for Next Simulated Mars Mission

SpaceX and T-Mobile send first texts via Starlink satellites

Hicks: U.S. Aims to Prevent Conflict in Space, Other Domains Through Deterrence

Space Business: Payload problems

Enabling a space circular economy by 2050 

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India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory reaches its final destination. China moves its lunar lander to its spaceport ready for a launch in the first quarter of this year. ArianeGroup reportedly increases financial support for MaiaSpace to €125 million, and more.

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Aditya-L1: India's Sun mission reaches final destination

China says it will launch its next lunar explorer in the first half of this year- AP News

ArianeGroup to Increase MaiaSpace Investment to €125M - European Spaceflight

University of Glasgow - Self-eating rocket could help UK take a big bite of space industry

Regulatory filing reveals ABL Space Systems targeting $100M in new funding

SpaceX targets February for third Starship test flight - SpaceNews

Sidus Space Achieves Critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Hardware Contract Milestones as its Nears the Launch of LizzieSat-1 in March 2024

John Kraus photos

The New Space Race Is Causing New Pollution Problems - The New York Times

USSF announces selections for Space Strategic Technology Institute 2

Enlightenment Capital Announces New Space Platform Auria- Boecore

NASA Selects Bold Proposal to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes - Universe Today

NASA/JAXA XRISM Mission Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos

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NASA is pushing back its schedule for Artemis 2 to September 2025, with the Artemis 3 mission, which will land the first humans on the moon since the 1970s, delayed to September 2026.  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off 100 contractors as part of a  cost-cutting effort. Astrobotic says there’s no chance of soft landing Peregrine on the moon, and more.

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Our guest today is Anurita Chandola, a textile artist who has transitioned into a spacewear designer. 

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More delays for NASA's astronaut moonshots, with crew landing off until 2026

Questions about NASA's Mars Sample Return mission put JPL jobs in jeopardy - Los Angeles Times

News & Press | Astrobotic Technology

Voyager Space and Airbus Finalize Starlab Space LLC Joint Venture

Rocket Lab Makes its Defense Prime Debut with $0.5 Billion Contract to Design and Build Satellite Constellation for Space Development Agency- Business Wire

Army Space Vision 

Venus Aerospace Partners With Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center On New Engine Technology

Muon Space Selected by AFWERX for SBIR Phase I Contract

ESA - Einstein Probe lifts off on a mission to monitor the X-ray sky

Arka Shines and Rudra Roars

NASA TechLeap Prize: Universal Payload Interface Challenge

Space Force taps Microsoft to build cloud-based, simulated space environment- DefenseScoop

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United Launch Alliance successfully launches its Vulcan Centaur rocket. Astrobotics’ Peregrine lunar lander experiences an anomaly. The UAE’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre has announced plans to provide an airlock for NASA’s Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon, and more.

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United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches First Next Generation Vulcan Rocket

Peregrine lander: Private US Moon mission runs into trouble

NASA Administrator, Leaders to Discuss Artemis Moon Mission Plans

NASA, United Arab Emirates Announce Artemis Lunar Gateway Airlock

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi appointed Minister of Youth

NASA Adjusts Agreements to Benefit Commercial Station Development

Space Force is crafting in-house cyber teams but sees need for closer work with USCYBERCOM

Spire Global Awarded $9.4 Million Contract by NOAA for Satellite Weather Data

UN space tsar calls for increase in junk clean-up efforts

A starring role for NASA in Biden’s push to end cancer - POLITICO  

Office of Space Commerce Announces New Regulatory Division Head

Orbex lands “stellar” CEO and Chair team to accelerate growth

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As systems get smaller and more powerful, it seems many of the capabilities currently operating in geostationary orbit (GEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) will largely move towards the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) market over the next 10 to 15 years. We spoke to Philip Harlow, President of commercial satellite operator Telesat about the market and military shift.

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NASA responds to the Navajo Nation’s request to delay the first commercial lunar payload services mission to the Moon. SpaceX sues the National Board of Labor after they issued a complaint against the company illegally firing employees. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied the protest by L3Harris over the award of a NASA contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, and more.

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Our guest today is Philip Harlow, President of commercial satellite operator Telesat.

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NASA responds to Navajo Nation's request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon

Biden Administration to Consult with Navajo About Human Remains on the Moon – SpacePolicyOnline.com

48000 pounds of engine thrust to power lift upper stage Vulcan rocket

SpaceX sues US agency that accused it of firing workers critical of Elon Musk- Reuters 

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.- U.S. GAO

Funding Future Tech: NASA Names 2024 Innovative Concept Studies

Space elevator design wins Barrow-born architect €10,000

ISRO’s Fuel Cell flight tested in PSLV C58

China's first rocket launch in 2024 successful - CGTN

China completes new commercial launch pad to boost access to space - SpaceNews

Where lawmakers think space policy is headed in 2024

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The US National Labor Relations Board is moving forward with a complaint against SpaceX by eight former employees who allege they were illegally fired.Maxar Intelligence has received a contract to provide the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with the company’s Precision3D data suite bundle covering 160,000 square kilometers within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility. Rocket Lab secures a $489 million contract with an undisclosed US government agency, and more. 

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Our guest today is Dr. Elaina Hyde, Director of the Allan I Carswell Observatory at Canada’s York University.

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Complaint and Notice of Hearing-Space Exploration Technologies | PDF 

SpaceX Launches First Direct-to-Cell Starlink Satellites for Service With T-Mobile

Japan Airlines Announces Partnership with SpaceX for Commercial Space Travel

India to use SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket to launch communications satellite

Maxar Space Systems-Built Ovzon 3 Satellite Launched- Business Wire

Maxar Intelligence Wins Nga Contract For Precision3d Data

Rocket Lab To Build 18 Spacecraft For Mystery U.S. Govt. Customer- Aviation Week Network

Sidus Space Receives NOAA Remote Sensing License - Via Satellite

China's Kuafu-1 probe records massive solar flare - CGTN 

NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey

Starfighters Closes 2023 With Growing Momentum in Hypersonic Testing and Space Access Platforms, as Management Reports New Hypersonic Research Agreements and Increase in Launch Opportunity Pipeline.

USSF accepting proposals for third research opportunity under the USSF University Consortium

Australia celebrates space history on world's 1st coin minted in 2024

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Terran Orbital closed out 2023 with $70 million dollars in cash, giving them what their CEO Marc Bell says is a "solid financial foundation" for their objectives in the coming year.  SpaceX begins 2024 by launching the first six satellites with direct-to-cell capabilities. AIAA’s CEO Dan Dumbacher will be stepping down from his role in September 2024, and more.

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Terran Orbital Reports an Excess of $70 Million Year-End Cash Balance- Business Wire

AST SpaceMobile Provides Interim Update on Fundraising- Business Wire

SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 launch of 2024 features first 6 direct-to-cell Starlink satellites – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX back with 1st Space Coast launch of the year – Orlando Sentinel

Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations cell receives new name - Joint Task Force-Space Defense

MBRYONICS Selected As Optical Terminal Provider For DARPA’s Space-BACN Program

LEAP-TD Mission Success

Rewind 2023: India has 204 space startups, sector received $123mn investments - Science News 

Exclusive: SynMax Raises $13M - Payload 

Early-stage hard tech firm Countdown Capital shutting down - TechCrunch 

AIAA Announces Plans for CEO Transition

 'There has never been such big hype': Why space tech is booming thanks to AI

What’s The Perfect Meal For Long-Term Space Travelers? A Vegetarian Salad, Apparently- IFLScience

A commander’s lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket- Ars Technica 

This NASA crew has survived Mars for six months — sort of

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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launches the XPoSat, or the Xray Polarimeter Satellite with the aim of studying bright astronomical x-rays emanating from things like black holes, neutron stars, pulsar wind nebulae, and active galactic nuclei. China has announced the completion of the Meridian Project which links hundreds of instruments across the country for end-to-end monitoring of solar activity. The US Space Force Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane was launched by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on December 28, and more.

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Our guest today is Itay Glick of OPSWAT discussing “AeroBlade”, a group that's used spearphishing to target US aerospace organizations.

XpoSat: India launches space mission to study black holes

China storms ahead in space weather research with largest observatory on Earth

Chinese rocket booster falls from space, crashes near house, after satellite launch: report

USSF-52 successfully launches from the Eastern Range- Space Launch Delta 45 

Scientists are attempting to track 1,000 cattle and buffalo from space using GPS, AI and satellites- Euronews

NASA and Russia will keep launching each other's astronauts to ISS until 2025: report- Space

NASA Issues New Space Security Best Practices Guide- NASA 

Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains

China, Russia claim to have tested hack-proof quantum communication link

Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System

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Welcome to the T-Minus Overview Radio Show. In this program we’ll feature some of the conversations from our daily podcast with the people who are forging the path in the new space era, from industry leaders, technology experts and pioneers, to educators, policy makers, research organizations, and more. In this episode we’re covering cybersecurity for space. What is it? What are the threats to space systems, why is there such an emphasis on it right now, and what are people doing about it? 

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Our first guest is Renee Wynn, former CIO of NASA. Our second guest is Matthieu Bailly, Vice President of Space at CYSEC, a cybersecurity company based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Our third guest speaking to T-Minus Producer Alice Carruth, is Steve Luczynski, Board Chairman of the Aerospace Village.

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