Spectrum AMT Supplies High-Precision Circuit Boards for NASA Psyche’s Communication System

Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, a subsidiary of technology company Ocutrx, has supplied high-precision circuit boards for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft’s communication. The Psyche mission, managed by Arizona State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, marks a significant achievement in deep space exploration as it is propelled by a solar electric propulsion system, helping it reach a […]
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SpaceX Launches MDA, SDA Missile Tracking Payloads to Orbit

SpaceX launched the USSF-124 mission on Feb. 14, sending six missile-detecting satellites into orbit. The mission’s payload includes two prototype satellites, one developed by L3Harris Technologies and the other developed by Northrop Grumman, for the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program. The HBTSS program is designed to augment the existing overhead […]
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Aalyria Demonstrates Spacetime Platform for Hybrid Space Architecture, CJADC2

Aalyria has completed a demonstration of its Spacetime network orchestration software platform, enabling two technologies—the Hybrid Space Architecture and the Combined Joint All-domain Command and Control Concept—for civilian and defense applications. Held in the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., and made possible through a collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit and other partners, […]
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NASA to Study Ultraviolet Sources in Space Through UVEX Survey

NASA has scheduled its next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission, focusing on an all-sky survey, for 2030. The UltraViolet EXplorer space telescope will study sources of ultraviolet light in the universe and identify explosions that follow bursts of gravitational waves caused by merging neutron stars. UVEX will also carry an ultraviolet spectrograph to study stellar explosions […]
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SpaceX Rocket Delivers NASA Ecosystem Observational Spacecraft to Sun-Synchronous Orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 completed the delivery of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem spacecraft into a sun-synchronous orbit on Thursday. The NASA spacecraft carries instruments to study ocean colors as it monitors biological activity, including phytoplankton, clouds and aerosols, in the atmosphere. The PACE development, which started 20 years ago, encountered multiple bumps along the […]
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New NASA Partnership Program Adds More Research Organizations for Support Funding

NASA has selected the first 11 projects under its Science Mission Directorate’s Bridge Program for new research partnerships between the agency and U.S. institutions with no previous NASA funding. The new program seeks to improve the diversity, inclusion and accessibility of the science and engineering communities. According to NASA, the initiative will usher in new […]
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