The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Control Technology Branch has awarded Pacific Defense a two-year contract for a low size, weight and power space sensor that follows a modular open systems approach. Prototypes are to be demonstrated by the end of the performance period. The Moonraker system is planned to be used to gain situational […]
House lawmakers have introduced legislation that aims to create safe space operations and control orbital debris. The Space Safety and Situational Awareness Transition Act of 2022, introduced by House Committee on Space and Aeronautics Chairman Don Beyer and Rep. Donald Norcross, will give the Department of Commerce space situational awareness capabilities to help spaceflight sustainability. […]
Meroxa has won a $1.3 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop a real-time event streaming data architecture meant to support the integration of sensor data into the Unified Data Library, a repository program co-managed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory. According […]
The U.S. and several African nations have agreed to deepen and expand their space partnership and collaborate to promote the peaceful use and exploration of outer space. As part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, a space forum was held on Tuesday in which officials from Nigeria and Rwanda signed the U.S.-led Artemis Accords, which promotes […]
NASA’s Glenn Research Center has issued a request for information to identify potential sources of a spacesuit augmented reality display system and solution providers as part of the agency’s Joint Augmented Reality Visual Informatics System project. According to the RFI, the AR display system should have control and compute subsystems and a capability to enable […]
The Space Development Agency has delayed the December launch of the first batch of satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 0 constellation to March 2023 because of a technical issue. Director Derek Tournear cited a snag with a “noisy power supply” affecting the eight York Space Systems-made satellites lined up for deployment. According to the […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja, California, on Sunday evening following its lunar flight test. During the Artemis I test, the Orion spacecraft flew over 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon and back to Earth. NASA tested Orion’s ability to cope with the harsh environment of deep […]
OQ Technology has secured patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its frequency and timing synchronization technologies, which the company currently uses to communicate with its 5G internet of things satellite constellation. The technologies are designed for rapid transmission of data between the satellites and ground stations to enable real-time asset monitoring, drone […]
The National Science Foundation has issued two solicitations worth up to $5.2 million for studies on tissue engineering and transportation phenomena using the International Space Station National Laboratory. NSF and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space seek proposals that take the ISS’ environmental conditions into account for their research work. Both solicitations […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is inviting space commercial companies to submit satellite concept proposals to support the Department of Defense’s cislunar mission. According to a solicitation, the satellites should be capable of carrying and operating payloads for imaging, space-radiation monitoring and communications, among other applications, in one or more of the five Earth-moon Lagrange points […]
