Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute (TPA-SI) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has tasked NanoAvionics to build two nanosatellite platforms, designed in partnership to support educational and technology demonstration […]
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The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is completed
The agency’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft. The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft […]
The Airbus Copernicus CRISTAL Mission Satellite Built For The ESA Successfully Passes The PDR
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimetry mission CRISTAL is clearly on track. Following an intensive review process, the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that the preliminary design […]
ESA Contracts Airbus For Further Development Of The Agency’s LISA Mission
Airbus has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), one of the most ambitious science missions […]
Astroscale’s ELSA-d Mission Successfully Completes Complex Rendezvous Operation
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that, despite several unexpected setbacks, the company’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission successfully completed further controlled close-approach rendezvous operations between its two spacecraft […]
NASA Selects The Investigation Teams That Will Join The Geospace Dynamics Mission
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agency’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earth’s upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigations that will […]
Spaceflight’s 50th Mission All Groomed + Set For A Rocket Lab Electron Launch
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing for their 50th mission, which will launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket no earlier than April 22. The RL-9 mission, called “There and Back Again,” […]
Lonestar Secedes From Stealth Mode To Develop Lunar-Based Data Storage + Edge Processing Infrastructure With 2 Moon Missions Contracted
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is launching a series of data centers to the lunar surface and has contracted for its first two missions and for the build of the company’s […]
SpaceX Sends 40 Various Spacecraft To SSO With Successful Transporter-4 Launch At Canaveral
SpaceX successfully launched the Transporter-4 via a Falcon 9 rocket to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The […]
Orbit Logic Awarded Lunar Swarms Autonomy NASA Phase II STTR
Orbit Logic has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by NASA to further mature the Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Awareness for Swarm Systems (IN-PASS) solution. […]