Aerospace company SpaceX plans to launch Falcon Heavy’s second national security mission for the U.S. Space Force on Jan. 12. According to the U.S. Space Systems Command, details of the USSF-67 mission will be released three days before launch. The launch follows USSF-44, SpaceX’s first national security launch that brought six payloads to geostationary Earth […]
Airbus Defence and Space has partnered with Voyager Space to support the development and operation of a NASA-funded commercial space station called Starlab, which is slated for launch in 2028 to ensure astronauts can continue conducting scientific investigations in low-Earth orbit following the retirement of the International Space Station in 2031. Under the agreement, Airbus […]
Advanced Space has awarded General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems a contract for a satellite that can perform situational awareness and positioning, navigation and timing functions. The work is part of Oracle, an Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at detecting and tracking cislunar space objects, which cannot be monitored from conventional orbits. The EMS segment is […]
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 […]
