Peraton has secured a NASA follow-on contract for suborbital flight operations support for the Wallops Flight Facility. Under the Sounding Rocket Operations IV contract, Peraton will design, fabricate, integrate and perform flight qualification tests for suborbital payloads. The company will also provide vehicles, hardware and support needed for launch services. Work on the contract will […]
NASA has called off Janus, a mission to investigate binary asteroids using two small satellites. The two spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin and the University of Colorado Boulder, are expected to be stored at an agency facility until an application arises. Daniel Scheeres, principal investigator for Janus at CU Boulder, said at a meeting on […]
NASA’s Johnson Space Center has partnered with the University of Texas Aerospace Center to establish a new facility that provides NASA’s aerospace workforce the opportunity to learn more about digital engineering and encourages students to become engineers. The Digital Engineering Design Center allows enrolled individuals to work on in-situ resource utilization-related projects, which are critical […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with space companies and military organizations to identify and integrate capabilities that can be used for the Hybrid Space Architecture. The program is linked to the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept where it would deliver space-based internet connectivity and a reliable communications infrastructure that can […]
Five teams of security researchers will participate in the final round of the fourth Hack-A-Sat competition, during which they will launch cyberattacks targeting a newly deployed 3U cubesat, dubbed Moonlighter, which serves as a hacking sandbox in space. A SpaceX rocket launched the satellite on June 5 to the International Space Station. The ISS deployed […]
NASA has awarded Axiom Space a $5 million task order to work on a spacesuit for use in low Earth orbit. The space agency also awarded Collins Aerospace a task order worth the same amount for the same purpose, except the spacesuit Collins will develop will be used on the surface of the moon. The […]
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for purchasing and deploying eight prototype satellites for the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter program of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, formerly known as the National Defense Space Architecture. Each FOO Fighter spacecraft will carry electro-optical/infrared sensors to demonstrate detection, warning, tracking and advanced defense capability against […]
Col. Nicole Petrucci of the U.S. Space Force assumed leadership of the service’s Space Delta 3-Space Electromagnetic Warfare unit during a change of command ceremony on Thursday. Petrucci was a program analyst for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she specialized in cost and program assessment. She succeeded Col. Christopher Fernengel, who led […]
U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Jacob Simmons will assume the role of command senior enlisted leader for the U.S. Space Command in Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. He currently serves as CSEL for Space Operations Command. According to a June announcement from the Office of the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the […]
The University of Arizona will expand its human spaceflight work with the NASA Johnson Space Center under a Space Act agreement. The deal allows the university to engage in different aspects of human spaceflight, including proprietary information exchange, research and development and advanced manufacturing. Work under the Space Act agreement would cover aerospace engineering, aeronautics, […]
