Raytheon Intelligence & Space is building missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force and has selected Lockheed Martin’s LM400 medium satellite bus for the effort. The LM400 bus, introduced in 2021 with security features designed for the military, will house an infrared sensing payload. Raytheon’s satellite design is one of two that the Space Systems […]
Bechtel Corp. has awarded Sidus Space a subcontract to manufacture cables to support NASA’s Mobile Launcher 2 project. The deal follows a separate contract to fabricate custom cables and populate electronics cabinets supporting the launcher’s subsystems, Sidus Space said Tuesday. Carol Craig, founder and CEO of Sidus Space, said her company has been providing end-to-end […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched over 110 small satellites to orbit on Tuesday as part of the Transporter-6 rideshare mission, including the Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather Systems cubesat for the Space Systems Command. The EWS spacecraft built by Orion Space Solutions was deployed from Cape Canaveral to low-Earth orbit where it will demonstrate its capability to […]
NASA has reported delays in its current and future missions despite receiving a $3.2 billion planetary science budget under the fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill. The amount is about $80 million higher compared to the agency’s FY 2022 planetary science budget and is $40 million more than what NASA requested for the current fiscal […]
NASA’s Stennis Space Center has completed improvements to the Fred Haise Test Stand to support RS-25 engine trials for Artemis moon missions. The engine will provide power to Space Launch System rockets that will lift off Orion capsules to the moon. The test stand built in February 1967 was designed to withstand up to about […]
NASA and Roscosmos are working together to investigate a Dec. 14 coolant leak on a Soyuz MS-22 capsule meant to retrieve three astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The U.S. space agency is looking into having the team board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while its Russian counterpart is considering sending another Soyuz. Joel Montalbano, […]
A 6u cubesat that missed its original chance to go into orbit around the moon could still make its primary mission if engineers could fix its thrusters. The NASA-funded LunaH-Map cubesat was one of 10 secondary payloads flown on the Artemis 1 mission that launched on Nov. 16. It was deployed several hours after launch […]
NASA undertook several projects in 2022 outside of the Artemis missions, including programs that could support efforts to return to the moon and Mars. Among such initiatives are the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment and the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm, Nextgov reported. CAPSTONE is meant to chart a lunar orbit […]
The $1.7 trillion fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill includes $26.3 billion for the U.S. Space Force. The amount is $1.7 billion higher compared to what the Pentagon requested. A huge chunk of the additional fund is allocated for new satellites, including those being acquired by the Space Development Agency to build a missile-warning low-Earth […]
NASA has secured funding for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, an infrared space telescope designed to identify potentially hazardous asteroids and comets. The funding allows NASA to advance the NEO Surveyor to the development stage and supports the agency’s goal of launching the telescope in 2028. The approved budget for the NEO Surveyor is included in […]
