NASA has awarded Draper a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025 — the commercial delivery is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative […]
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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 […]
U.S. Space Force Releases Decades Of Bolide Data To NASA For Planetary Defense Studies
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also […]
NASA’s Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays For Trip To Metal-Rich Asteroid
With its solar arrays installed, the spacecraft is close to its final configuration ahead of a planned August launch. NASA’s Psyche mission is almost ready for its moment in the […]
Innoflight’s SCR Units Ordered By SDL For NASA Deep Space Compatibility Testing For The Agency’s sunRISE Mission
Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has selected Innoflight for NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission. SDL, the SunRISE spacecraft provider to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will deliver an array […]
NASA’s JWST 21-Foot Primary Mirror Is Successfully Deployed
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has now fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations. […]
Delivery Of Imagers For NOAA’s GOES Satellites Completed By L3Harris
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has delivered their fourth imager to NASA, completing the series of advanced weather sensors for NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and lays the groundwork for […]
Voice + Video Tech On The Moon Being Developed By Lockheed Martin, Amazon + Cisco
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) have teamed up to integrate unique human-machine interface technologies into NASA’s Orion spacecraft, providing an opportunity to learn how […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Succeeds With The Milestone Of Deploying The 70 Foot Sunshield
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations. The sunshield – about the size of a […]
NASA’s Program Enables Astrobotic’s Hazard Detection System To Take Flight
Astrobotic was selected to receive funding for its LiDAR-based Hazard Detection sensor (LHD) as part of the NASA Flight Opportunities TechFlights solicitation. This LHD sensor will assist in the safe […]