After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies CNES and NASA, the SWOT […]
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Beyond Gravity delivers high technology for Artemis missions
The Artemis space missions will write a piece of space history and once again bring humans to the Moon. The leading global supplier to the space industry Beyond Gravity is […]
Methane satellites will be watching California’s dairies…but mostly its oil fields and landfills
California is doubling down on its spending for launching new satellites to capture images of methane leaks throughout the state. But the dairy sector—long in the regulatory crosshairs for climate […]
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander completes JPL Deep Space Network ground testing successfully
Last month, the Deep Space Network (DSN) from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully completed end-to-end test communications with Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. These tests demonstrated compatibility with space-to-ground communications […]
NASA selects Draper to fly research to the far side of the Moon
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 […]
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. […]