Nova Space Newsletter #12
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Over 60% of companies using our space professional program come back for more licenses within the first 9 months of trying our program
The Nova Space Professional Course is the?award winning ?flagship course of the Nova Space professional development catalog. Students learn the fundamentals of space in a highly interactive, self-paced, and scenario based experience that maximizes learning efficiency and content retention.
The learning objectives covered in the Nova Space Professional Course range from orbital mechanics to rocket science to satellite communications and provides learners with all the tools they need to become effective team members and communicators within companies.?For a detailed list of learning objectives, the course syllabus can be downloaded?here . The course sets the new standard for baseline knowledge and professional development within the Space Ecosystem and has been designed to be applicable to the full range of student experience levels.?
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Featured Article
by?Jeff Foust ?—?September 26, 2022
LAUREL, Md. — A NASA spacecraft collided with a moon orbiting a near Earth asteroid Sept. 26 in a demonstration of a technology that could one day be used to protect the Earth from a hazardous object.
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft hit Dimorphos, an asteroid about 160 meters across orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos, at 7:14 p.m. Eastern. Confirmation of the impact, at a speed of 6.5 kilometers per second, came from a loss of signal from DART at mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL).
The final approach of DART to Dimorphos appeared to go as planned, with no issues reported by controllers in the last hour. The spacecraft was able to autonomously lock onto Dimorphos and target the asteroid, 160 meters across, with a final reported miss distance of only 17 meters from the center of the asteroid.
“Forty minutes out, you were really getting a good feeling,” Ed Reynolds, DART program manager at APL, said at a post-impact briefing. In the final two minutes, when the spacecraft’s trajectory could no longer be changed and it showed it to be on course for impact, “it was just joy. You got to enjoy the moment.”
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On-the-job training alone cannot sustain the space industry
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Listen to RocketLab's CEO, Peter Beck, as he discusses the need for more educated talent in the space industry. Read below for Nova Space's opinion on the state of the space workforce.
Academia is not keeping up with the needs of the space industry in providing a sustainable workforce.?Graduate degrees are great where needed but are far too expensive and time consuming for many people and likely not necessary for many positions in the space industry. As a result, there is an expanding workforce gap and space companies must rely on On-the-Job Training (OJT) to get new hires up to the required level of foundational knowledge necessary to perform their job. While OJT has its place, it should not be relied upon to teach foundational knowledge.?
Using OJT to teach foundational information creates several issues across the workforce. First, it creates and perpetuates non-standard practices and vernacular across industry. Imagine if a project manager had to learn entirely new management processes every time that person switched companies. Instead, professional project managers earn industry recognized and accepted certifications that employers require to verify the skills and standardized knowledge learned.?Second, OJT requires a significant time investment on the part of experienced managers who must train newer employers. These managers should focus their OJT programs on niche company specialties, not the transfer of non-standardized foundational space knowledge.
Nova Space offers the industry the best solution to this problem. Our award-winning workforce development program offers space companies the tool to effectively teach foundational space knowledge and skills necessary to remain competitive in this rapidly expanding space economy. Our solution allows senior engineers, project/program managers, and other subject matter experts to focus on productivity and transferring company specific knowledge to their team members. Additionally, the Nova Space program also creates a common language among employees and across the industry, further improving communication and?productivity.
Our flagship course, the Nova Space Professional Course, is the recipient of three Brandon Hall Awards for e-learning. Our delivery method does not rely on PowerPoint or video lectures. We utilize experiential learning techniques that immerse students into realistic industry challenges and simulations, promoting both engagement and content retention.
On average,?U.S. companies allocate 8-11% of their budgets to workforce development ; unfortunately, many waste time and money on ineffective training solutions. We can implement and manage a quality and effective training program for a fraction of the abovementioned average budget allocations. Compared to academia and other training solutions, the Nova Space solution is more cost effective, can reach more people, and is more engaging than any other e-learning product. If interested, schedule a meeting today to learn how your organization can maintain that competitive edge in this growing space ecosystem. Your people will learn!
Credit: Open Cosmos
Open Cosmos unveils OpenConstellation, shared space infrastructure
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News from IAC 2022
by?Debra Werner ?—?September 21, 2022
PARIS – British small satellite startup Open Cosmos announced plans Sept. 21 for OpenConstellation, shared space infrastructure that offers partners access to satellite data.
At the International Astronautical Congress here, Open Cosmos invited countries, institutions or companies around the world to contribute their satellites to OpenConstellation. Eventually, Open Cosmos hopes OpenConstellation expands to include 25 satellites with sensors offering varying spatial and spectral resolutions.?
In return for contributing satellites, OpenConstellation partners gain access to data over their areas of interest.?The goal is to give businesses, nonprofits, national and regional governments that may not have the resources individually to establish multifaceted Earth-observation constellations access to “insightful, actionable data from space for the first time while keeping high levels of governance and security,” according to the news release.
Space organizations from the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal are among the partners who have made commitments for the first six OpenConstellation satellites. The first launch is scheduled for November.
“The main challenges the world faces today are global and satellites naturally provide that global perspective we need to make the right decisions,” said Rafel Jorda Siquier, Open Cosmos founder and CEO. “The key objective of OpenConstellation is to make necessary data and information from space more accessible.”
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Crew-5 launch preparations continue amid hurricane threat
by?Jeff Foust ?—?September 27, 2022
WASHINGTON — NASA is, for now, moving ahead with plans for a launch of the next crew to the International Space Station early next week as it watches an approaching hurricane.
NASA held a flight readiness review Sept. 26 for the Crew-5 mission, at the time scheduled for launch Oct. 3. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the station.
Officials acknowledged at a briefing after the review that the schedule is dependent on weather as Hurricane Ian heads towards the west coast of the Florida peninsula, with effects to be felt throughout the state, including the Kennedy Space Center. That forecast prompted the agency to announce Sept. 26 that?it would roll back the Space Launch System from Launch Complex 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building , a process completed by early Sept. 27.
“Our biggest discussion today was probably regarding weather and timing,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for space operations. “The team is still working towards the Oct. 3 launch timeframe, but we also know we’ve got to work through weather conditions here at KSC.”
NASA announced Sept. 27 it had delayed the launch one day, to Oct. 4, citing the hurricane. “Mission teams will continue to monitor the impacts of Ian on the Space Coast and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and could adjust the launch date again, as necessary,” the agency said in a statement.
The anticipated storm prompted NASA to delay the arrival of the crew, which was scheduled for Sept. 26. That alone would not push back the launch: Steve Stich, NASA commercial crew program manager, said they crew would typically arrive about four days before launch for preparations.
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