The three-year-old Space Development Agency is on track to be absorbed by the Space Force in October. The agency’s director revealed that under the plan approved by Congress in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the SDA will become part of the Space Force but will remain separate from its procurement bureaucracy, the Space Systems […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is laying the groundwork for a new generation of large space telescopes, motivated in part by recommendations contained in the latest astrophysics decadal survey. The space agency announced it will go ahead with a line of probe-class missions intended to fill the gap between large flagship missions and smaller […]
NASA has appointed Katherine Calvin as chief scientist and senior climate adviser. In her new role, Calvin will serve as the principal adviser to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders on science programs, strategic planning and policy. She will also represent the space agency’s objectives and contributions to the international community. Calvin’s appointment […]
NASA has selected Reserve Engineering Duty Officer Lt. Deniz Burnham as one of the astronaut candidates that will be trained for space missions. Burnham, a former intern at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, is one of the 10 candidates chosen from a list of more than 12,000 applicants, the Naval Sea Systems […]
Geospatial analytics company HawkEye 360 has secured a $15.5 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract for radio frequency analytics research and development and space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architecture support. Under the contract, HawkEye 360 will offer personnel, tools and other required resources to support data collection, ingestion and analysis. The company will also […]
The James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched in French Guiana on Christmas Day in 2021, has unfolded its primary mirror, completing the major steps in the post-launch deployment of the giant observatory. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its controllers issued commands to deploy an assembly called the starboard primary mirror wing, […]
Officials from the Department of Defense said the organization will need various space architectures for its satellite communications. They issued the comments during a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies webcast in which a policy paper for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control was being discussed. The paper, titled “The Backbone of JADC2: Satellite Communications for […]
Austin-headquartered Slingshot Aerospace has been tasked to develop a new analytics tool that would spot likely sources of electronic interference on the ground under a $2 million deal with the Space Force. The contract is funded by the Space Systems Command’s commercially augmented space inter-networked operations or “CASINO” program, which seeks new military applications for […]
NASA has given the launch industry an early peek at its NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit software code with an advance release. The space agency performed several tests in late December to ensure that the software will pass certification. The dry runs were performed at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and at Axient facilities […]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has teamed up with Amazon and Cisco to add human-machine interface technologies to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft, which was built to take humans farther out in space than they have ever gone before. The collaboration has resulted in a new technology, christened, “Callisto,” which will be […]
