Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
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General Atomics Awarded DARPA Contract For Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System For DRACO Mission
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded GA-EMS a contract to support the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) […]
Innoflight Teams With Lockheed Martin On Avionics For SDA’s Transport Layer
Innoflight has been awarded two subcontracts from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems (Tyvak) for the delivery of key avionics for 10 satellites produced by Lockheed Martin under […]
Inmarsat’s Report Captures Role Of Singapore’s Maritime Digital Transformation
With one-quarter of the world’s goods passing through the Singapore Strait each year, the report identifies the island city-state as ‘The Startup magnet’A first, and very ambitious report, sponsored by […]
The “Go Ahead” Given By ESA For The Second Scout Satellite Mission — HydroGNSS
Following the selection of the first Scout satellite mission last December, ESA has also given the greenlight to start negotiations with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. in the UK to lead […]
MoU Signed Between SES + RCSC For O3b mPOWER Services In Kazakhstan
Recently, the Republican Center for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, and SES have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore service […]
Euroconsult and ESPI’s Award By ESA To Study The Future Of European Space Transportation
An important task has been assigned to Euroconsult which has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a study on the future of the European space transportation […]
MilSat Symposium Early Bird Registration Rates Close This Week
This is the final week to take advantage of the Early Bird registration discount of 20 percent for the absolutely, not-to-be-missed, 2021 MilSat Symposium. With extensive Department of Defense (DoD) […]
Russia Exiting ISS + Will Build Their Own Space Station
The news agency Sputnik is reporting that Russia will exit the International Space Station (ISS) initiative in 2025 and will inform its international partners about that decision, this according to […]
DARPA Awards General Atomics Contract to Design Nuclear Thermal Propulsions Systems
To date, the SNAP-10A reactor has been the only U.S. nuclear power reactor launched into space, for which General Atomics was directly involved in nuclear fuel testing and characterization… General […]