Super busy SpaceX is now planning Tuesday, August 27 at 3:38 a.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of Polaris Dawn to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy […]
In-Space Research
ISS National Lab announces up to $750,000 in funding for LEO Tech development
The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory is soliciting flight concepts for technology development that would utilize the space-based environment of the orbiting laboratory. This solicitation, “Technology Development and Applied Research […]
Next ISS mission will carry vision loss treatments + Earth-viewing tech research projects
The next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will carry more than 40 payloads sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory®, including in-space production applications projects, technology demonstrations, life science experiments, […]
AUC inaugurates the African Space Agency
On the grounds of the newly completed structure for the African Space Agency (AfSA), domiciled within Egypt’s Space City, the African Union Commission and the Egyptian government, represented by the […]
Virgin Galactic signs agreement with Axiom Space for microgravity research
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. announced an agreement with Axiom Space to support a microgravity research and training mission — the Virgin Galactic spaceflight, tentatively scheduled for next year, will prepare […]
Redwire to launch an upgraded 3D Bioprinter to ISS to investigate new treatments for military members as well as crop production research on-orbit
Redwire Corporation is launching the company’s upgraded 3D bioprinter, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), along with three other payloads, on Northrop Grumman’s 18th cargo resupply services mission (NG-18) for NASA to […]
Webb + Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact
Two of the great space observatories — the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — have captured views of a unique experiment to smash a […]
In-Space drug development a new focus of Redwire + a partnership with Eli Lilly & Co.
Redwire Space Corporation (NYSE:RDW) will be developing new, in-space manufacturing technology to provide novel and flexible services to grow small-batch crystals of protein-based pharmaceuticals and other key pharmaceutically relevant molecules […]