Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
EchoStar said it is not ready to disclose how it will deploy capital following the planned sale of spectrum rights to SpaceX, offering few details to investors and partners. The lack of guidance leaves uncertainty over whether proceeds will fund satellite, broadband, or other strategic initiatives.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity for futuristic space antennas.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: Launch of Space One's Kairos rocket is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET today (March 3).
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: When space is hot, Washington holds a match.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: "There are plenty of opportunities for many satellites to do space science.".
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Redwire has introduced a new solar array product designed for mass-produced satellites that require high performance while minimizing mass.
New York Times
• Robin George Andrews
By New York Times: Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.
Reuters
By Reuters: Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that repair work had been completed at a damaged section of a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that is critical to Moscow's space programme, Russian state media reported.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
SpaceNews.com
• John David Callison, Joseph Minafra
