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A company you’ve never heard of plans to build the world’s first private space station“Not many people have heard of Axiom Space outside a small segment of the space community. The company didn’t exist until 2016, and only has a half-dozen employees....

A company you’ve never heard of plans to build the world’s first private space station

Not many people have heard of Axiom Space outside a small segment of the space community.

The company didn’t exist until 2016, and only has a half-dozen employees. Yet it only takes a quick glance at the company’s publicity materials or a chat with one of its representatives to see that the name Axiom fits well.

An axiom is a statement that is established, accepted or self-evidently true, and that’s how the company talks about its future. They aren’t planning to build the first private space station—they’re doing it. They aren’t hoping to launch a mutlipurpose module to the International Space Station in 2020—they are. An Axiom-sponsored astronaut isn’t projected to visit the station in 2019—he or she is.

It’s all so straightforward and matter-of-fact, you find yourself asking: Does Axiom know something I don’t?

Quite possibly. The company, led by Mike Suffredini, who managed NASA’s ISS program for 10 years, and Kam Ghaffarian, the CEO of SGT, a major NASA contractor responsible for ISS operations and astronaut training, has big ambitions that could potentially re-shape the space industry. Will they be able to pull it off?

Source: planetary.org
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“(2016-12-15) Pegasus-XL, CYGNSS A constellation of eight small satellites making up NASA’s CYGNSS mission was delivered to LEO by an air-launched Pegasus rocket flying Orbital ATK’s second and final mission of the year. The Cyclone Global Navigation...

(2016-12-15) Pegasus-XL, CYGNSS

A constellation of eight small satellites making up NASA’s CYGNSS mission was delivered to LEO by an air-launched Pegasus rocket flying Orbital ATK’s second and final mission of the year. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System is intended to improve hurricane forecasting by measuring GPS signals reflected off Earth’s sea surface near the centers of storms.

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The first time you see Planet Earth from space, it’s stunning; when you’ve spent 534 days in space—more than any other American—it still is!  On his most recent trip the International Space Station NASA astronaut Jeff Williams used an Ultra High Definition video camera that he pointed at the planet 250 miles below; here he shares some of those images, and talks about the beauty of the planet, the variety of things to see, and the value of sharing that perspective with everyone who can’t go to orbit in person.

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“As 2016 ends, I can’t help but point out an interesting symmetry in where the mission has recently been and where we are going. Exactly two years ago we had just taken New Horizons out of cruise hibernation to begin preparations for the Pluto flyby....

As 2016 ends, I can’t help but point out an interesting symmetry in where the mission has recently been and where we are going. Exactly two years ago we had just taken New Horizons out of cruise hibernation to begin preparations for the Pluto flyby. And exactly two years from now we will be on final approach to our next flyby, which will culminate with a very close approach to a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) called 2014 MU69 – a billion miles farther out than Pluto – on Jan. 1, 2019. Just now, as 2016 ends, we are at the halfway point between those two milestones.

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The year ahead will begin with observations of a half-dozen KBOs by our LORRI telescope/imager in January. Those observations, like the ones we made in 2016 of another half-dozen KBOs, are designed to better understand the orbits, surface properties, shapes, satellite systems and frequency of rings around these objects. These observations can’t be done from any groundbased telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, or any other spacecraft – because all of those other resources are either too far away or viewing from the wrong angles to accomplish this science. So this work is something that only New Horizons can accomplish. 

Source: pluto.jhuapl.edu
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