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Congratulations to all! SpaceWERX, in partnership with Space Safari, has announced the 19 awardees of the 2023 SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space Challenge! The TacRS Challenge will generate cutting-edge ideas and state-of-the-art capabilities to enable the United States Space Force to more rapidly and flexibly respond to emerging on-orbit threats by 2026. “The TacRS Challenge SBIR Direct to Phase II contracts are going to propel the U.S. Space Force toward future responsive and dynamic space operations,” said Col Erik Stockham, USSF Space Systems Command (SSC/SZA). “The future of space power requires capabilities that can respond to adversary action on tactical timelines. These innovative small businesses are developing groundbreaking approaches to employ space capabilities when and where it counts.” “The TacRS SpaceWERX Challenge shows how impactful the collaboration with our mission owners can be. We’re thrilled to have supported the TacRS program team on what is clearly going to be an impressive cohort of companies and technologies.” said Lt. Col. Vinny Pande, Chief of SpaceWERX Ventures. 232 companies submitted 302 proposals in response to the TacRS Open Innovation Challenge in Aug., a SBIR solicitation open to innovators from industry, academia, and government with solutions to solve identified problems. SpaceWERX will award up to $1.7M to each of the below SBIR Phase II companies, totaling $32.3M with a 15-month period-of-performance. ◾ Agile Space Industries, Inc. ◾ Apex Technology, Inc. ◾ Argo Space Corp. ◾ Circle Optics, Inc. ◾ Gravitics Inc, Inc. ◾ Impulse Space, Inc. (two awards) ◾ K2 Space Corporation ◾ Map Large, Inc. ◾ PickNik, Inc. ◾ Portal Space Systems Inc. ◾ SCOUT Inc. ◾ Space Rig Systems Inc. ◾ Starfish Space ◾ Ten One Aerospace, LLC ◾ True Anomaly, Inc. ◾ Turion Space Corp. ◾ Varda Space Industries ◾ Xtenti, LLC Congratulations to our TacRS awardees! #AFWERX #SpaceWERX #TacRS #SpaceWERXChallenge #funding #award #orbit #space #technology #innovation

Luxembourg Space Resources Week 2024 -  Technology transfer and use cases for space resources #SPW24 #SpaceResWeek2024 #Space #resources #NextSpace #NewSpace #NewSpaceEconomy #EU #EUspace #SpaceTech #spaceactivities #spaceindustry #Luxembourg

#Türkiye achieves a milestone with its inaugural #astronaut in space! 🌌 🚀 In my latest analysis, I delve into the evolving #spacerace, spotlighting Türkiye's position and the significance of its national space program. See: https://lnkd.in/d38hwU3g

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I look forward to the discussion. Commercial Space provided earth observation is changing the value and access to space critical infrastructure

"Session 4: Ensuring long term autonomous access to space for Europe" "Autonomous access to space is a prerequisite for European strategic autonomy and an indispensable element in the European space ecosystem, without which there is no autonomous space policy. The retirement of Ariane 5 in July 2023 coupled with delays to Ariane 6 and Vega-C temporarily left Europe without this key independent access to space. Europe has since navigated these hurdles to regain its autonomous launch capabilities, but in the interim period, there was a need to turn towards non-European launch service providers. This session will look at lessons learnt from this situation and from current and past launcher programmes, and at measures that are put in place to ensure long term and permanent autonomous access to space for Europe going forward. It will look at how policy is evolving and at the important role that a more competitive launcher ecosystem and the introduction of new space players can play as part of this solution." European Space Forum 2024, 24 june - Isabella Poldrugo Acting Head of Unit, Space Policy, DG DEFIS, European Commission   - Toni Tolker-Nielsen Acting Director of Space Transportation, European Space Agency (ESA)    -Raúl Verdú Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer, PLD Space    - Charlotte Lang Charlotte Lang, Public Affairs Manager, Arianespace    - Olivier Lemaitre Secretary General, Eurospace

Awardees: ◾ Agile Space Industries, Inc.◾ Apex Technology, Inc.◾ Argo Space Corp.◾ Circle Optics, Inc.◾ Gravitics, Inc.◾ Impulse Space, Inc. (two awards) ◾ K2 Space Corporation◾ Map Large, Inc.◾ PickNik, Inc.◾ Portal Space Systems Inc.◾ SCOUT Inc.◾ Space Rig Systems Inc.◾ Starfish Space◾ Ten One Aerospace, LLC ◾ True Anomaly, Inc. ◾ Turion Space Corp.◾ Varda Space Industries ◾ Xtenti, LLC "SpaceWERX19 of the 2023 SpaceWERX TacRS Challenge generates cutting-edge ideas and state-of-the-art capabilities that will enable the United States Space Force to more rapidly and flexibly respond to emerging on-orbit threats by 2026."

SpaceWERX, in partnership with Space Safari, is pleased to announce the 19 awardees of the 2023 SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space Challenge! The TacRS Challenge generates cutting-edge ideas and state-of-the-art capabilities that will enable the United States Space Force to more rapidly and flexibly respond to emerging on-orbit threats by 2026. “The TacRS Challenge SBIR Direct to Phase II contracts are going to propel the U.S. Space Force toward future responsive and dynamic space operations,” said Col Erik Stockham, USSF Space Systems Command (SSC/SZA). “The future of space power requires capabilities that can respond to adversary action on tactical timelines. These innovative small businesses are developing groundbreaking approaches to employ space capabilities when and where it counts.” “The TacRS SpaceWERX Challenge shows how impactful the collaboration with our mission owners can be. We’re thrilled to have supported the TacRS program team on what is clearly going to be an impressive cohort of companies and technologies.” said Lt. Col. Vinny Pande, Chief of SpaceWERX Ventures. 232 companies submitted 302 proposals in response to the TacRS Open Innovation Challenge in Aug., a SBIR solicitation open to innovators from industry, academia, and government with solutions to solve identified problems. SpaceWERX will award up to $1.7M to each of the below SBIR Phase II companies, totaling $32.3M with a 15-month period-of-performance. ◾ Agile Space Industries, Inc. ◾ Apex Technology, Inc. ◾ Argo Space Corp. ◾ Circle Optics, Inc. ◾ Gravitics, Inc. ◾ Impulse Space, Inc. (two awards) ◾ K2 Space Corporation ◾ Map Large, Inc. ◾ PickNik, Inc. ◾ Portal Space Systems Inc. ◾ SCOUT Inc. ◾ Space Rig Systems Inc. ◾ Starfish Space ◾ Ten One Aerospace, LLC ◾ True Anomaly, Inc. ◾ Turion Space Corp. ◾ Varda Space Industries ◾ Xtenti, LLC Join us in congratulating our TacRS awardees! . . . #AFWERX #SpaceWERX #TacRS #SpaceWERXChallenge #funding #award #orbit #space #technology #innovation

Day Three: We want your thoughts and impressions of UK Space Conference 2023? What have we learned? What have the key themes been? What’s changed since we were last together in 2019? Help us sum up what this week has meant to everyone! #UKSC2023 #SpaceforourFuture #SpaceIndustry

Paper: From Space Debris to NEO, Some of the Major Challenges for the Space Sector (2020) #SpaceEconomy #NewSpaceEconomy #NewSpace #Space