TransAstra has secured separate contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense to contribute to space debris removal and domain awareness efforts. NASA awarded the Los Angeles, California-based aerospace company a Small Business Innovation Research deal for the Mini Bee Capture Bag, an inflatable apparatus meant to enclose and retrieve a small spacecraft or object. […]
NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a $31.2 million contract to support the James Webb Space Telescope‘s phase E operations and sustainment. Under the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Northrop will provide products and services to be used in the monitoring and maintenance of JWST’s systems. The contractor will monitor the telescope’s bus, optics and telescope, and sun […]
Leaders from the U.S. Space Force, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Innovation Unit discussed technologies needed in the future to ensure U.S. space superiority during the recent Space Futures Workshop. Also present during the discussion were space industry representatives, who shared their concerns and visions for defending U.S. interests in the domain. […]
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 […]
