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 […]
NASA has appointed Rae Ann Meyer as the new deputy director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Starting June 2, Meyer will help lead Marshall’s nearly 7,000 employees and guide the center in developing propulsion systems, launch vehicles, space systems, engineering technologies and scientific research projects, NASA said. Meyer took on the […]
BlueHalo has demonstrated integrated backend mission services that use a fully virtualized satellite communications ground system from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to the U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office. The demonstration, held at the 2024 Space Symposium in Colorado, was part of the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource program, under which BlueHalo was awarded […]
