NASA has concluded the wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis mission’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. The two components are part of NASA’s Artemis mission. During the rocket test on June 20, teams demonstrated cryogenic loading operations throughout all phases of the propellant loading, performed key countdowns, conducted a launch scrub practice […]
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has appointed four new persons to the NASA Advisory Council, a team tasked with advising agency leadership on programs and issues of importance. According to NASA’s website, the council has committees for aeronautics, audit and finance, exploration, human capital, sciences and space operations. Each committee conducts fact-finding missions in support of […]
NASA has awarded Spire Global a 12-month, $6 million contract extension for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program. With the award, Spire Global will continue to deliver various Earth observation data, metadata and other necessary information. Spire will provide surface data, atmospheric data, space weather-related information and domain awareness. Information will be gathered through a […]
NASA has awarded $103.4 million in contracts, including options, to four companies tasked with supporting the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Science Applications International Corporation, Rothe Development, ASRC Federal Aerospace Services and Mathematical Research were selected to provide specialized spaceflight and aircraft management support to the center’s Flight Operations Directorate, NASA said Wednesday. The […]
NASA and aerospace company SpaceX will start testing strategies that would prevent autonomous satellites from colliding with each other as part of the agency’s Starling mission. The Starling mission is a series of experiments that would test autonomous swarm communications, navigation and autonomy. After the tests are completed, NASA’s Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis group, the […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that together with the Department of Energy, it has selected three design concept proposals for generating nuclear power on the moon’s surface. This effort is expected to yield a suitable fission surface power system that would be ready for actual lunar testing by the end of the decade, […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is getting set to launch Starling, its first satellite swarm designed to work together by receiving instructions and sending back data as a single entity, according to the project’s manager. Howard Cannon said satellite swarms have the potential to revolutionize science by allowing scientific data to be gathered from […]
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee wants the U.S. Space Force to replace its two-vendor approach to military space launch services with an open competition model. In the committee’s draft version of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, committee leader Rep. Adam Smith raised concerns over the current model’s inability to […]
NASA has selected four small businesses that will research how microgravity can benefit manufacturing and biomedicine in space. The Four companies are DSTAR Communications, Sachi Bioworks, Goeppert and Nanoarmor. The companies will receive up to $150,000 under the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program. The companies were selected for their research proposals, which […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft has cleared a critical testing milestone, bringing it a step closer to launch. JPSS-2, a polar-orbiting satellite being built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, emerged from a thermal vacuum test chamber after successfully withstanding simulations of the harsh environment […]
