NASA has awarded $28 million to fund the next five years of research infrastructure development across 28 jurisdictions. The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a part of NASA’s […]
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NASA’s DART Journeys To Vandenberg Space Force Base For Launch
Just two days after leaving the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in a specialized container carefully strapped to the deck of a semi-trailer truck, NASA’s Double […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Safely Shipped To French Guiana For Launch
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana on Tuesday, October 12, after a 16-day journey at sea. The 1,500-mile voyage took Webb from California through the Panama […]
Communications & Power Industries Awarded Million$ Contract By NASA For Specialized TWTAs
Communications & Power Industries (CPI) has received an award of more than $3 million from NASA to provide specialized K-band traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) for the space agency’s Artemis […]
NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System To Be Deployed Via A Rocket Lab Electron Launch Vehicle
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected to launch NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, on thir Electron launch vehicle. NASA’s ACS3 technology demonstration uses composite […]
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Are The Target For NASA’s Lucy Mission, Now Being Prepared
NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for […]
UPDATE 2: NASA’s Landsat 9 Mission Successfully Launched By ULA From Vandenberg Space Force Base, Plus, US Space Force Reports On Their Involvement
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off at 11:12 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 27, 2021, carrying NASA’s Landsat 9 and multiple smallsat payloads […]
Rocket Lab Engaging Two Photon Spacecraft For A Science Mission To Mars For NASA’s ESCAPADE Quest
Rocket Lab will initiate final mission design and manufacture to supply two, interplanetary, Photon spacecraft for a science mission to Mars, delivering Decadal-class science at a fraction of the cost […]
NASA’s StarBurst SmallSat Mission To Be Developed By Space Flight Laboratory
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has contracted Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to develop a smallsat platform for the StarBurst astrophysics mission — part of the newly formed NASA Pioneers Program, […]
Five SBIR Contracts Awarded To Space Micro
Space Micro Inc. has received five separate SBIR contracts to develop and enhance their products for scientific, defense and dual purposes — these Q1 2021 awards were received from U.S. […]