The U.S. Space Force on Friday put a missile-warning spacecraft and an experimental satellite in orbit as part of its $1.1 billion USSF-12 mission to bolster national security. The payload lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, SpaceNews reported Friday. The USSF-12’s launch has […]
NASA’s Compact Total Irradiance Monitor has been launched into orbit. CTIM is a 6U cube satellite that will observe the sum of all solar energy that the Earth receives from the sun. CTIM will help researchers develop new technologies for measuring total solar irradiance. The CubeSat contains a new carbon nanotube material, known as a […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is calling out to the aerospace industry to help in the development of a new generation of lower-emission, single-aisle airliners in an effort to reduce the aviation sector’s carbon footprint. Called the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, the initiative plans to fly cleaner aircraft by the 2030s, NASA said Thursday. […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to host a cooperative institute focused on Earth system research and data science. The envisioned center for scientific learning will build upon more than half a century of collaborative work between the two institutions, NOAA said Thursday. In a […]
The commissioning of the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 satellite bus has been completed, according to Terran Orbital Corporation, the company that built the spacecraft. Marc Bell, CEO of Terran Orbital, said that his company was proud of having achieved the milestone just days after the satellite achieved orbit. The PTD-3 spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is calling on amateur astronomers to assist in finding clouds in the Martian atmosphere. Towards this end, a project called Cloudspotting on Mars was launched to recruit planetary enthusiasts for spotting clouds on the Red Planet using the citizen science platform Zooniverse, NASA said Tuesday. In a statement, the […]
The Department of Defense has nominated Maj. Gen. Philip Garrant as the deputy chief of space operations for strategy, plans, programs and requirements at the U.S. Space Force. If confirmed, he will be responsible for the Space Force’s budget as well as all activities related to the title of the position. Garrant’s confirmation would also […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment mission is officially underway with the successful launch of the CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit. The early morning take-off via the Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle took place in New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula, NASA […]
The chief of the Space Operations Command announced that a new unit has been formed within the Space Force specifically to provide quality intelligence to policymakers about the space domain. Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting said the newly created Space Delta 18 will focus on threat analysis to help inform national defense policy and space systems […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its Psyche asteroid mission will not be able to meet its 2022 launch schedule. Delays in the delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software and testing equipment have held back preparations and will ultimately lead to a delay in the launch, NASA said Saturday. In a statement, the […]
