#Space Industry

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Talking Pixels: Hunter Hatchell

My first in a new segment I like to call: Talking Pixels where I interview passionate people in the gaming and tech worlds. Thank you to Hunter Hatchell for the opprtunity to interview him and learning some cool space stuff.. Hope you enjoy!

My first of a new segment: Talking Pixels! At the Indie Galactic Space Jam, I had an opportunity to speak with people close to the Space industry, and former NASA aerospace engineer Hunter Hatchell had a lot to say. We spoke on a variety of topics regarding space, games, and his plans going forward as a space aficionado. The text below is a heavily edited version of our convo. I try to keep as…

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New Boeing CEO sets sights on 'leaner' future as quarterly loss tops $6 billion

Workers picket outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Renton, Washington, US, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.  David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said the company is reviewing its various businesses, laying out a vision for a leaner future at the troubled airplane manufacturer in his first quarterly call with analysts on Wednesday. At the…

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Boeing Starliner returns to Earth empty, months later than planned

In this image from video provided by NASA, the unmanned Boeing Starliner capsule undocks as it pulls away from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. NASA | Via AP Boeing‘s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early…

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The Space Industry's Evolving Market: New Opportunities for Monetization

The space industry is undergoing a transformative phase, with exciting new opportunities emerging for monetization. As we enter 2024, several key trends are shaping the future of this dynamic sector. Small Satellites and ConstellationsOne of the most significant developments is the rise of small satellites and constellations[1][3][6]. Companies like SpaceX and Amazon are deploying vast networks…

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Agnikul Cosmos: Revolutionizing Space Access

What do you think of Agnikul Cosmos' revolutionary approach to space exploration? Share your thoughts and questions below! 👇

Agnikul Cosmos: The Spark that Lit the Indian Space Race Howdy, fellow space cadets! Get ready to blast off into the future of space exploration with Agnikul Cosmos, the Indian startup that’s rewriting the rules of the cosmic game. Forget clunky, old-school rockets, the kind your grandparents might have seen on grainy TV broadcasts. Agnikul Cosmos is all about innovation, conjuring rockets…

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Outer Space: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, 63rd session, 1058 meeting.

Watch Outer Space: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, 63rd session, 1058 meeting

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India's Thriving Space Industry: A $100 Billion Investment Opportunity

India's space industry has rapidly emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing segments, poised to secure a substantial $100 billion share of the global space economy, according to a report released by Arthur D Little, a renowned strategy and management consultancy. Despite holding a modest 2% share in the global space market, India aims to achieve a remarkable 9% market share by the end of the decade. Bolstered by government reforms in 2020 that promote private industry participation, the country has witnessed significant growth, with over 100 start-ups actively engaged in various space-related domains.

As nations allocate increasing resources to the space sector and private participation rises, leading investment banks and financial services providers predict that the global space industry market will expand to $1 trillion by 2040, from $386 billion in 2021. Riding this wave of growth, India's space economy is projected to reach $40 billion by 2040, compared to its current worth of nearly $8 billion. Over the last few years, India's space market has grown at a commendable Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4%, outpacing the global rate of 2%.

To grasp a significant share of the burgeoning global space industry, the Arthur D Little report outlines five growth recommendations for India:

Satellite Internet Services: Encourage mass adoption of satellite internet services to compete with terrestrial communication solutions, thereby unlocking new investment avenues in India.

Manufacturing and Launch Services: Leverage existing strengths in satellite and launch vehicle manufacturing, aiming to become a global leader with end-to-end competence in components manufacturing.

Commercial Potential: Focus on high commercial potential areas such as space mining, in-space manufacturing, and in-orbit servicing, presenting lucrativeinvestment opportunities in India.

Emerging Activities: Explore emerging activities like space tourism and space entertainment, offering cost-effective services for future markets.

Green Space Initiatives: Foster innovation in 'green space' technologies, including sustainable fuel, reusable spacecraft, and eco-friendly practices, catering to the growing demand for environmentally responsible space endeavors.

The successful implementation of these recommendations would not only boost India's space industry but also positively impact the nation's economy. Doubling the space industry's contribution to India's GDP from 0.25% to 0.5% by 2040 is a realistic goal. This growth potential could create over 3 million additional jobs, driving India's GDP growth rate even higher.

While the opportunities in India's space industry are vast, several challenges must be addressed to fully unlock its potential. Lack of local manufacturing capabilities for specific components, especially semiconductors, inadequate funding, and investor hesitancy are among the hurdles to overcome. Additionally, the absence of a comprehensive regulatory framework covering all space activities poses a challenge, along with the increasing competition from foreign players vying to become cost-effective.

India's space industry is on the cusp of extraordinary growth, presenting an unparalleled $100 billion investment opportunity in India. By focusing on strategic areas, fostering innovation, and collaborating with all stakeholders, including the government and private sector, India can propel its space industry to unprecedented heights. As the nation works towards an ambitious 9% market share by the end of the decade, investors have a golden chance to be part of this remarkable journey, contributing to India's economic growth and shaping the future of the global space industry.

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Space stations, from the beginning, were conceived of primarily in terms of assembling, fueling, and otherwise maintaining spacecraft. This remains the kind of mission that we would expect a space station to have.

Unfortunately, in the 1970s and ’80s, there was a lack of government impetus toward ambitious missions which would require such capabilities ; commercial enterprises had not yet developed the kind of experience with space operations which would allow them to be effective users of such capabilities, or even really to define the kinds of capabilities they might need ; and there was a great lack of knowledge about living, working, and performing tasks in the orbital environment, so that any attempt at a space station would likely have been half wrong. That does not mean it would have been wasted effort, because there is really no other way to learn these lessons than to try things and find out whether or not they work, but it is just the sort of situation in which administrators required to be cautious with money would regard that trying as “premature”.

It certainly wouldn’t be premature now. Indeed we’d be inclined to say “overdue”. But as a result of the very slow, cautious pace of activity, most of those lessons have yet to be learned. The Solar Dynamic Power System, which was to have been flown on Mir, was “de-manifested” from the Shuttle. So was the Large Centrifuge Facility, perhaps the single most interesting scientific component planned for the International Space Station. And, although geosynchronous communications satellites keep getting bigger and more powerful, they are still “one-and-done” birds, with no provision for refurbishment or life extension. Meanwhile, as we have observed, low-orbit comsat constellations such as Starlink are justified by the prospect of providing global Internet service, but the bulk of the traffic is streaming video and similar payloads which are relatively insensitive to round-trip time delay.

Space Station Concepts: Space Operations Center

"The SOC is a self-contained orbital facility built up of several Shuttle-launched modules. With resupply, on-orbit refurbish- ment and orbit maintenance, it is capable of continuous operation for an indefinite period. In the nominal operational mode, the SOC is manned continuously, but unmanned operation is possible.

The present mission management and control process is characterized by a people-intensive ground monitoring and control operation involving large supporting ground information and control facilities and a highly- integrated ground-flight crew operation. In order to reduce dependence on Earth monitoring and control, the SOC would have to provide for increased systems monitoring; fault isolation and failure analysis, and the ability to store and call up extensive sets of data to support the onboard control of the vehicle; and the onboard capability for daily mission and other activity planning."

"Like most other space station studies from the mid/late 1970s its primary mission was the assembly and servicing of large spacecraft in Earth orbit -- not science. NASA/JSC signed a contract with Boeing in 1980 to further develop the design. Like most NASA space station plans, SOC would be assembled in orbit from modules launched on the Space Shuttle. The crew's tour of duty would have been 90 days. NASA originally estimated the total cost to be $2.7 billion, but the estimated cost had increased to $4.7 billion by 1981. SOC would have been operational by 1990.

NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center extended the Boeing contract in February 1982 to study a cheaper, modular, evolutionary approach to assembling the Space Operations Center. An initial power module would consist of solar arrays and radiators. The next launches would have delivered a space tug 'garage', two pressurized crew modules and a logistics module. The completed Space Operations Center also would have contained a satellite servicing and assembly facility and several laboratory modules. Even with this revised approach, however, the cost of the SOC program had grown to $9 billion. Another problem was Space Operations Center's primary mission: spacecraft assembly and servicing. The likely users (commercial satellite operators and telecommunications companies) were not really interested in the kind of large geostationary space platforms proposed by NASA. By 1983, the only enthusiastic users for NASA's space station plans were scientists working in the fields of microgravity research and life sciences. Their needs would dictate future space station design although NASA's 1984 station plans did incorporate a SOC-type spacecraft servicing facility as well."

Article by Marcus Lindroos, from astronautix.com: link

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James Jones SpaceX, a journalist and engineering graduate from UCLA, dives deep into the world of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other space organizations to uncover the motivation and innovation behind their groundbreaking projects. Through his extensive research and interviews with industry experts, James aims to shed light on the incredible work being done by these companies to push the boundaries of space exploration.

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Orbital Utility by Edouard Groult

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How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

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Losing GPS could cost billions, so the Space Force is having companies like Astranis build a backup network

A depiction of Nexus satellites in a medium Earth orbit constellation. Astranis The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the economy. Since then, GPS is estimated to have generated more than $1.4 trillion in economic benefits, according to a…

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Boeing Starliner returning empty, NASA to use SpaceX to get astronauts

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the hatch connecting Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station on NASA Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday. With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will now have…

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India's Space Giant - Chandrayaan 3

Chandrayaan 3 is the project of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) with the aim to study moon and lunar properties. It started it's journey from Sriharikota at 2.35pm on 25th July 2023 and is destined for a soft landing on the South Pole of the moon on August 22, 2023.

Let's take a look at the history of Chandrayaan missions.

Chandrayaan 1

Formally Chandrayaan, this mission reached the lunar orbit in 2009. It studied the lunar surface and provided with evidence regarding presence of water on moon.

Chandrayaan 2

This was a 2019 mission with the aim of soft landing on the moon. It was provided with a Propulsion Module (PM), Landing Module(LM) a Lander ( named Vikram) and a Rover (named Pragyan). While the initial mission went smoothly, about 400m above lunar surface, a technical glitch occured leading to crash landing. The Propulsion module of Chandrayaan 2 is still in lunar orbit and sends relevant data.

Now coming to the star of the moment, Chandrayaan 3.

Chandrayaan 3

Atop of the LVM 3 rocket, India's most heavy duty rocket, the Chandrayaan 3 consists of again the PM, LM, Lander and Rover of the same name as Chandrayaan 2. Apart from these it also contains 7 additional payloads.

(Source- isro.gov.in)

LVM 3 rocket is a premium Indian rocket. It has a cryogenic engine having cryogenic engine.

Payloads of Chandrayaan 3

1).Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA): To measure the near surface plasma (ions and electrons) density and its changes with time.

2. Chandra’s Surface Thermo physical Experiment (ChaSTE): To carry out the measurements of thermal properties of lunar surface near polar region.

3. Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA): To measure seismicity around the landing site and delineating the structure of the lunar crust and mantle.

4. LASER Retroreflector Array (LRA): It is a passive experiment to understand the dynamics of Moon system.

5. LASER Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS): Qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis & To derive the chemical Composition and infer mineralogical composition to further our understanding of Lunar-surface.

6. Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS): To determine the elemental composition (Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca,Ti, Fe) of Lunar soil and rocks around the lunar landing site.

7. Spectro-polarimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE): Future discoveries of smaller planets in reflected light would allow us to probe into variety of Exo-planets which would qualify for habitability (or for presence of life).

Objectives of Chandrayaan 3 mission

The mission objectives of Chandrayaan-3 are:

1. To demonstrate Safe and Soft Landing on Lunar Surface

2. To demonstrate Rover roving on the moon and

3. To conduct in-situ scientific experiments.

Future mission - Gaganyaan

Gaganyaan is an ISRO mission which would be the most ambitious mission of India. It aims to send humans to space in Lower Earth Orbit(LEO) using Indian technology, fostering the idea of Aatmanirbhar bharat.