30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
...and dismay by our community, especially as the President’s Space Policy Directive 1 directs NASA to go to the lunar surface," reads the ... would be a pathfinder for NASA’s contribution to the space economy, provide the first “ground truth” data for ...
20 February 2019
Trump signs directive to initiate his Space Force
... orbit took one step closer to becoming reality yesterday, with the signing of the President's fourth space policy directive. Space Policy Directive-4 calls on the Secretary of Defence to develop a legislative proposal that paves the way forward for...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... self-sustaining. The PROSPECT system concept and its functions. The need for ISRU In his 2017 Space Policy Directive 1, US President Donald Trump announced that the USA would return to the Moon for the first time...
20 June 2018
Trump officially calls for the creation of US “space force”
... they're not going to be able to oppose it." The meeting also saw Trump sign his administration’s third Space Policy Directive, which primarily focuses on managing and monitoring the increasing numbers of satellites in low-Earth orbit and mitigating...
22 February 2019
NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
... especially valuable as a proving ground for deeper space exploration.” NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD)...next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA has announced plans to work with American companies ...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
.... Cyber defence is a top priority for the newly created US Space Force and the US Space Policy Directive 5 released in September provides guidelines for cybersecurity in space. Indeed, growing cyber threats represent new opportunities for commercial...
