He’s also 21-years-old, younger than 40 of the 60 players the Nets worked out before the Draft, and is coming off a 15.6-point, 4.8-assist campaign in his sophomore year with the Lakers. D’Angelo Russell is a 6’5” combo guard with an array of offensive weapons, including great court vision. Not in this case because of what came back. A few months ago, people would’ve called Sean Marks crazy for trading one of his precious picks. And finally, they showed that they’re open-minded to everything. They used another resource (a big asset) in Lopez. The Nets utilized one of their resources (Prokhorov’s bulging wallet) and took on a bad contract.

for D’Angelo Russell and Timofey Mozgov became official Thursday night at the NBA Draft. Not to mention, they surprised us yet again with an intriguing pick in the draft. But in return, they acquired a 21-year-old rising star with potential. It hurt for more than just sentimental reasons. They traded away their franchise-leading scorer. It’s been an interesting couple of days for the Nets. The company announced that SES, which operates more than 50 geosynchronous satellites and 12 mid-Earth orbit satellites, has signed an agreement to be the first commercial customer to use the SIS satellite refueling services.Slowly but surely, the Brooklyn Nets are making moves in the right direction. SIS awarded SSL a $228 million contract to design and build a satellite servicing spacecraft that meets DARPA’s specifications. company that will commercialize sophisticated satellite servicing, including refueling. Maxar in June announced the launch of Space Infrastructure Services, a new U.S. The agency pioneered the concept of using robots in space and more recently invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a public-private partnership with Maxar Technologies’ Space Systems Loral to build an autonomous vehicle for servicing satellites 22,000 miles above Earth. Weeden said an outreach program soon will begin to recruit satellite manufacturers, satellite operators, service providers, insurers and underwriters, and other stakeholders.ĭARPA’s support for on-orbit satellite services began years ago. The success of the consortium obviously depends on broad participation from the space industry and government agencies.

Once the consortium members agree on a set of standards, the next step is to work with existing bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. Weeden said a broad range of expertise will be needed to come up with standards for technical interfaces and designs, data exchange and sharing, operational practices, and transparency and confidence building measures to spur future activities.

Over the first 12 months of the project, the contractors and researchers will start bringing together experts from industry, academia, government, and the international community. “Yet today there is no common set of standards or norms associated with safe and secure on-orbit activities in space.” The space activities known as “on-orbit rendezvous and proximity operations” are being explored by commercial firms, civilian governments and militaries, said Weeden. But the lack of clear, widely accepted technical and safety standards for on-orbit activities involving commercial satellites remains a major obstacle to the expansion of the industry. Technology has been developed to “approach, grasp, manipulate, modify, repair, refuel, integrate, and build completely new platforms and spacecraft on orbit,” he said. “Satellite servicing and related technologies are the foundation of the future economic development of space and delivering increased benefits from space to the world,” said Brian Weeden, director of program planning of the Secure World Foundation. DARPA last month awarded Advanced Technology International a contract to manage the operation. The Secure World Foundation, along with the University of Southern California’s Space Engineering Research Center and the Space Infrastructure Foundation were selected to coordinate the “consortium for execution of rendezvous and servicing operations,” known as Confers. The Federal Aviation Administration runs launch, the Federal Communications Commission oversees satellite communications, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regulates Earth imaging. The federal government regulates space activities but there is no rule-making body for the new and mostly unknown activity of in-orbit services.

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