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 […]
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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. […]
NASA Reveals 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
“The last seven years have been the warmest seven years on record, typifying the ongoing and dramatic warming trend”… Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as […]
NASA’s Juno’s Closest Images Ever Of Aurorae And Lightning On Jupiter
Why does so much of Jupiter’s lightning occur near its poles? Similar to Earth, Jupiter experiences both aurorae and lightning. Different from Earth, though, Jupiter’s lightning usually occurs near its poles — while much of Earth’s […]
UPDATE 1: Mars + NASA Perseverance Rover: Continuing News
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on February 21 after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the […]