The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the official opening of the second phase of its Watts on the Moon Challange. The competition calls on innovators to design, build and demonstrate a prototype that addresses technology gaps in power transmission and energy storage for use by astronauts during lunar expeditions, NASA said Wednesday. In a […]
NASA is launching the Nanosat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System, a prototype instrument that could support volcanic activity and air quality monitoring. NACHOS will use a hyperspectral imager to locate sources of trace gases in areas as small as 1.61 square feet. If successful, it will be the smallest, highest resolution, space-based instrument that is […]
Redwire Corporation announced that it has successfully delivered the first set of wired cameras for Artemis III as part of its production contract with Lockheed Martin for the Orion camera system. The system comprises an array of internal and external inspection and navigation cameras developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft, Redwire […]
Colorado-headquartered Advance Space is in the final stages of preparations for a CubeSat mission to test a lunar orbit critical to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s Artemis program, the company’s chief executive officer revealed. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment spacecraft, which will test operations in the near-rectilinear halo orbit […]
Space Force officials expect the service’s main acquisition branch to achieve “maximum operational capability” in 2026. Joy White, the executive director of the Space Systems Command, said the organization will come out with new resilient space systems within the given timeline. White said that SSC’s bid to rapidly build out resilient constellations is in line […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that it has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct studies and evaluations in support of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at its headquarters. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-no-fee award has a maximum ordering value of approximately $19.9 million and a five-year performance period, […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the award of $15 million to American small businesses and research institutions for the continued development of new technologies in a wide range of areas that could prove beneficial to space exploration. Through the Small Business Technology Transfer program, it is able to provide early-stage funding and other […]
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone and committee ranking member Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers have introduced two draft bills to update licensing rules for satellites. According to the lawmakers, the pieces of legislation will help the Federal Communications Commission regulate the influx of non-geostationary orbit satellites and will be the first step […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has called on companies that are currently developing new technologies intended to facilitate space exploration to take advantage of two new financing opportunities. Up to $200 million is being offered under the Tipping Point funding program, which aims to support technologies that can foster the growth of commercial space […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory announced the impending award of a contract for a new experiment on cislunar space domain awareness to help the United States military observe and track objects in between Earth and the moon. A ranking AFRL officer said that a solicitation for the Cislunar Highway Patrol System is likely to be […]
