Commercial Crew Program Manager Gets A Promotion

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 2014, Lueders has directed NASA’s efforts to send astronauts to space on private spacecraft, which culminated in the successful launch of Demo-2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30. “Kathy gives us the extraordinary experience and passion we need to continue to move forward with Artemis and our goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024,” said Bridenstine.

In Keeping With Tradition, the GPS III Satellite Was Named "Katherine Johnson"

The United States Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning System (GPS) III program reached a major milestone with the successful core mate of GPS III Space Vehicle 08 at Lockheed Martin's GPS III Processing Facility in Waterton, Colorado, April 15. With core mate complete, the space vehicle was named in honor of a NASA trailblazer. The two-day core mate consisted of using a 10-ton crane to lift and complete a 90-degree rotation of the satellite's system module, and then slowly lowering the system module onto the satellite's vertical propulsion core. The two mated major subsystems come together to form an assembled GPS III space vehicle.

Collaboration Will Deliver The Ability To Track And Manage UAV Operations Anywhere

Altitude Angel and Inmarsat are collaborating to develop and deliver advanced flight tracking and management capability for UAVs. The two companies will build on Altitude Angel's GuardianUTM platform to jointly develop a 'Pop-Up UTM' capability that can be deployed anywhere it is required to manage Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) UAV flights, without the need for ground-based communications infrastructure. By utilising Inmarsat's sector-leading global network of satellites and leveraging its substantial experience in Air Traffic Management (ATM) communications, Altitude Angel's Pop-Up UTM can be accessed rapidly and deployed worldwide.