NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has awarded Advanced Cooling Technologies a contract worth over $6 million to design, manufacture and test two rollout purge units for NASA’s Mobile Launcher 2. The RPUs will replace existing mini portable purge units and support the Space Launch System Block 1B program, ACT said. They will be integrated into the […]
Peru and Slovakia have signed the Artemis Accords, making them the 41st and 42nd countries, respectively, to join the U.S.-led initiative that provides a set of principles designed to guide civil space exploration. Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea, Peru’s foreign minister, and Tomas Drucker, Slovakian minister of education, research, development and youth, attended a ceremony hosted by the […]
The Space Development Agency is building a pool of experienced and capable contractors aimed at accelerating the process of securing support services for its future technology demonstrations. In a solicitation posted on SAM .gov, the SDA said that it established the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO program to provide non-traditional defense contractors with the opportunity […]
NASA has selected proposals from BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to support its Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept. The mission is intended to search for life outside our solar system by imaging Earth-like planets and studying their atmospheres. It would feature the first space telescope specifically designed to study chemical signatures of life […]
The U.S. Space Force has short-listed Boeing and Northrop Grumman for its next-generation jamming-resistant communication satellites. Earlier, the two companies secured task orders to develop prototypes for the USSF’s Protected Tactical Satellite-Resilient program to establish a constellation of communication spacecraft resistant to jamming and cyberattacks, safeguarding U.S. forces’ connectivity in contested environments. On-orbit demonstrations of […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Momentus a contract in the demo program for the agency’s Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design project geared for building large-scale space structures. The DARPA task order calls for the San Jose, California-based commercial space company to collaborate with other NOM4D team members in […]
LEOcloud has signed a cooperative agreement with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to install a virtualized micro data center on the International Space Station. The agreement with CASIS, which manages the in-orbit lab, provides LEOcloud the opportunity to demonstrate how the first-generation Space Edge infrastructure-as-a-service offering can enable customers to reserve […]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has delivered the High-energy Ion Telescope instrument to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The fourth of the 10 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe spacecraft, HIT is designed to measure high-energy solar energetic particles coming from the sun in the highest-energy processes in the solar system. […]
NASA and Boeing are targeting a June 1 launch for the crewed flight test mission with the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The mission was initially scheduled on May 6 but was scrubbed due to an unrelated valve problem in the Atlas 5 rocket, after which engineers identified a helium leak in a Starliner thruster and a […]
NASA has launched the first of its two climate satellites for the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment mission to study heat emissions from Earth’s poles. The PREFIRE mission involves two small cube satellites designed to measure the amount of heat Earth radiates into space from the polar regions, providing data that will aid […]
