The Space Force Space Systems Command has scheduled a reverse industry day to give its personnel the opportunity to meet and glean insights from traditional and non-traditional space industry professionals. The event, which will be held in Colorado Springs on July 28, will include other agencies involved in space domain awareness, the SSC said Monday. […]
NASA has released the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The high-resolution images were released during an event at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The images released include the Carina Nebula, a region that was previously observed by Hubble Telescope. Other observations snapped by Webb include part of the Southern Ring Nebula, […]
The National Reconnaissance Office says the first of two classified spy satellites that it developed jointly with the Australian government has been launched. The NROL-162 flew onboard a Rocket Lab Electron on July 13 while the NROL-199 is set to launch into orbit no earlier than July 23, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. An NRO spokesperson was […]
The Space Force announced on Friday that a $22 million contract has been awarded to Northrop Grumman for the production of a satellite bus capable of carrying multiple small payloads. The sole-source contract, which was awarded under the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring program, will be used to demonstrate on-orbit refueling in geostationary orbit, SpaceNews […]
Rocket Lab, a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer, announced that its spacecraft is set to launch two national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office. One of the Rocket Lab’s Electron rockets, a reusable orbital-class vehicle, will launch NRO’s NROL-162 mission on July 12 from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. NROL-162, dubbed “Wise One […]
NASA has awarded cash prizes to three companies from outside the U.S. that presented ideas on how to convert space trash to fuel, which will be used for lunar as well as Martial missions. NASA partnered with crowdsourcing platform HeroX for the Trash-to-Gas Ash Management Challenge, which seeks proposals on collecting ash produced by the […]
Jacobs Engineering Group has secured NASA’s potential 10-year, $3.9 billion Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology, and Science II contract. Under JETS II, Jacobs will provide a variety of scientific products, engineering services, technology development and testing, analysis and laboratory and facility operation and maintenance services to the JSC Engineering Directorate. The company will also perform […]
A key Air Force Research Laboratory official said that the launch of the third Navigation Technology Satellite is on track for late 2023. The NTS-3, which is being built by L3Harris Technologies, is envisioned to feature advanced capabilities that could set the standard for the way Global Positioning System satellites operate in the future, C4ISRNET […]
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, chief of the Space Operations Command, said that satellite operators are wrestling with fears that the ground systems and network equipment used to operate space systems are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. He revealed that a key challenge for the Space Force today is how to assess contemporary cybersecurity risks amid […]
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is firmly bound for its intended destination on board the Rocket Lab Photon satellite bus, mission officials announced. A series of burns made by the Photon has put the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment CubeSat onto a […]
