The Ingenuity Mars helicopter continues to scout for the Perseverance rover well beyond its intended service life as a technology demonstration, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ingenuity, which was launched in April 2021 to perform five flights over one month, recently completed its 21st flight on the Red Planet, SpaceNews reported. The helicopter traveled […]
Lawmakers have questioned the U.S. Space Command‘s position when it comes to protecting the country’s satellites from cyber and electronic attacks from foreign adversaries. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sen. Jacky Rosen asked if increasing cyber threats from Russia could affect space operations as Moscow continues its invasion of Ukraine. Gen. James Dickinson, […]
Congress added almost $1.3 billion to what the Biden administration requested for funding the United States military’s various space programs. The additional funding pays for the Space Force’s technology development projects, an extra Global Positioning System satellite, more small launch services and new missile-detecting satellites for the Space Development Agency, SpaceNews reported Sunday. Among the […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that it was recently joined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other partners in simulating asteroid impact response as part of a Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. Now on its fourth iteration, the event was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, NASA […]
Department of Defense comptroller Mike McCord on Wednesday said he is expecting a notable growth in allocations for space programs as the United States military becomes increasingly reliant on satellites to conduct operations. While in the past, military space assets like satellites and ground systems were viewed as “support equipment,” emerging threats have put them […]
Congress appropriators have completed work on an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2022 that includes over $24.04 billion for NASA. The allocation for the space agency is $760 million below the Biden administration’s request and is around $740 million more than the fiscal 2021 budget. The funding allocates $1.1 billion for the space technology […]
Ohio-headquartered Battelle announced that it is currently using the Starlink satellite internet constellation in a pilot test to achieve improved data transmission and service for the National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network program. The effort is part of an ongoing initiative to leverage new and innovative technologies to improve and enhance NEON, Battelle said […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the twin solar arrays on the Psyche spacecraft have been attached and successfully tested. The tests, which were conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, saw the arrays being unfolded lengthwise and then refolded ahead of the spacecraft’s scheduled launch date in August, NASA said […]
NASA will send two pieces of technology to the International Space Station to test the ability of quantum computers to communicate with each other regardless of their location. The Space Entanglement and Annealing QUantum Experiment will involve small quantum communication technologies that will be subject to harsh space conditions. Officials want to prove the concept […]
The U.S. Space Command’s top officer revealed ongoing efforts to enhance the military’s space-monitoring capabilities. Gen. Jim Dickinson said the command’s current top priority is increasing awareness of the space domain by using, among others, “nontraditional sensors” that can be integrated into existing systems on the ground and in orbit, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Speaking […]
