James Reuter will retire from his position as associate administrator of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate on June 30. According to his official profile, Reuter is responsible for managing the various programs of STMD, a research and development organization that has focused in recent years on building up capabilities such as lunar power systems and […]
The U.S. Space Force has tasked the Commercial Space Office to help the service integrate commercial space capabilities. The new office will oversee the SpaceWERX technology hub and the Space Systems Command’s Front Door, an online portal that companies can use to find acquisition opportunities within the service. The office will also lead efforts to […]
NASA and its contractors embarked on a tour of California from May 2 to 4 to recognize businesses for their ongoing support for Artemis, a series of missions aimed at establishing a long-term presence on the moon and sending humans to Mars. Such companies are responsible for supplying key components of the Space Launch System […]
Geospatial intelligence firm BlackSky has filed a request for special temporary authority with the Federal Communications Commission for the ability to operate two satellites that are running out of propellant. The company wants to shift the Global 7 and Global 8 imaging spacecraft from their orbits at 385 kilometers to a new lower limit of […]
Rocket Lab deployed two NASA tropical cyclone-monitoring spacecraft on Sunday aboard an Electron rocket from New Zealand. The 3U cubesats were launched under the space agency’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats mission. Two more TROPICS satellites are planned for launch on board another Electron rocket in two […]
Raytheon Technologies has selected CesiumAstro to provide Ka-band, multi-beam communications systems to seven vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro Vireo is an active electronically scanned array radio frequency communications payload that can create multiple steerable and shapable beams when working together. It is designed to support various defense and commercial […]
NASA has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environment Satellites-U weather satellite completed a solar array test deployment. During the test, engineers unfolded the array’s five panels on rails simulating zero-gravity environments. The test verified that GOES-U’s solar array will properly deploy once the satellite reaches geostationary orbit, NASA said. The […]
NASA has awarded five organizations contracts to conduct research and development in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series Coronagraph Phase A Study. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, EO Vista, the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Southwest Research Institute […]
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has delivered to the University of Colorado a simulator of a spacecraft that would measure solar irradiance and provide long-term climate data. The Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 simulator allows users to send and verify commands, receive thermistor data and provide information on vehicle health and telemetry. It can also […]
A SpaceX rideshare mission will launch dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellite to a sun-synchronous orbit, including a Viasat-built 12U cubesat carrying a Link 16 tactical communications radio and an L band antenna. The Transporter 8 rideshare mission is expected to be deployed on board a Falcon 9 rocket in June. Viasat developed the satellite […]
