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Featured Article
Private equity firm closes $6.4 billion deal to acquire Maxar Technologies
The company was acquired by the U.S. private equity firm Advent International and minority investor British Columbia Investment Management Corp.
May 3, 2023
WASHINGTON — The?$6.4 billion buyout of Maxar Technologies?is complete and the company is now officially private. Its stock ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the company announced May 3.
Maxar, based in Westminster, Colorado, operates a fleet of?high-resolution imaging satellites?and?manufacturers satellites?in Palo Alto, California,?
The company was acquired for $53 per share by the U.S. private equity firm Advent International and minority investor British Columbia Investment Management Corp. in a deal announced in December.?
Nova Space Conversations
The next space race starts at our spaceports
May 1, 2023
Dr. Greg Autry is a professor of Space Leadership at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
Bryce Kennedy is a space law attorney and president of the Association of Commercial Space Professionals.
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In a recent article, “Cape Congestion: World’s busiest spaceport stretched to its limits” (Jeff Foust, March 24),?SpaceNews?wrote about various factors impacting Cape Canaveral and U.S. spaceports in general. There is no doubt that the commercial launch has experienced phenomenal growth over the last decade. The number of orbital-capable launch firms has leaped from a couple to more than a dozen, and the cadence of U.S. orbital launches has moved from monthly to weekly, with this trend accelerating upward on a non-linear curve. That is good news for satellite operators, the broader commercial space industry, and the U.S. government. NASA, NRO, and Space Force can do more for less in a highly competitive market. However, as multiple new rockets move towards testing and some to operations, America’s limited number of coastal spaceports have become the choke point. We must increase the productivity of our existing launch sites in a non-linear fashion to keep up.
Europe wants to build a nuclear rocket for deep space exploration
By?Robert Lea
Nuclear propulsion could enable humanity to reach farther into space than ever before.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding several studies that will explore the use of nuclear propulsion for deep space exploration.
Propulsion in space currently is conducted using a storage chemical propellant or using electric or solar power. The issue facing space agencies is these propulsion methods are reaching their respective physical limits. A nuclear-based electric propulsion (NEP) could potentially overcome these limitations and launch space missions into a new age, enabling humanity to reach farther into space than ever before.
Artemis 1 cubesat nearing end of mission
May 2, 2023
WASHINGTON — A cubesat launched as a secondary payload on Artemis 1 may end its operations at the end of the month unless it can get its propulsion system working.
The LunaH-Map spacecraft was one of 10 cubesats launched as secondary payloads on the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System last November. The spacecraft had planned to use an ion propulsion system on the 6U cubesat to perform a maneuver as it flew by the moon days later, ultimately allowing it to go into orbit.
That thruster, though, failed to fire because of what engineers believe is a stuck valve. In a presentation at the Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference May 1, Craig Hardgrove, principal investigator for the mission at Arizona State University, said the project had anticipated problems with it given the long delay between the spacecraft’s delivery to NASA in mid-2021 and its November 2022 launch.
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