Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has successfully deployed a pathfinding satellite for NASA, setting it on a course to the Moon. This deployment marks the successful completion of Rocket Lab’s first deep space mission, paving the way for the Company’s upcoming interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus. Owned and […]
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NASA’s Australian rocket launches seek habitable star conditions
On the heels of a successful launch on June 26, NASA is set to launch two more sounding rockets from northern Australia during the first half of July — these missions will help astronomers understand how starlight influences a planet’s atmosphere, possibly making or breaking its ability to support life as we know it. The […]
Sierra Space + Spaceport America sign Dream Chaser® spaceplane landing site agreement
Sierra Space and Spaceport America have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that adds the New Mexico spaceport to Sierra Space’s portfolio of potential, global, landing sites for the company’s Dream Chaser®, the world’s first and only winged commercial spaceplane. Spaceport America, located in southern New Mexico, is the most recent addition to a […]
Sidus Space is now a Collins Aerospace teammate for NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services contract
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU) is now part of the Collins Aerospace team that was awarded NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVAS) services contract. The Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services, or xEVAS program, is expected to include the design, development, production, hardware processing, and sustainment of an integrated Extravehicular Activity (EVA) capability that includes a new Spacesuit and […]
Sidus Spaces’ LizzieSat Continues Development as NASA conducts Phase 1 Safety Review
“The characterization of hazards and the development of hazard reports and mitigation strategies is a key step in the process of flying any payload onboard the International Space Station,” Sidus Space, Inc. conducted their LizzieSat Phase 1 Safety Review with NASA on June 2, 2022 as it continues development. Sidus Space is a Space-as-a-Service company […]
Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace for solar empowerment of NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has been selected by Ball Aerospace to manufacture the Solar Array Panel (SAP) to power NASA’s Global Lyman-Alpha Imager of Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) mission spacecraft that is planned to launch in 2025. GLIDE is a heliophysics mission intended to study variability in Earth’s atmosphere. The SAP […]
Dymax 9771 Conformal Coating is now NASA MAPTIS listed + also announces a manufacturing + labs property expansion
Dymax‘s 9771 light-curable, conformal coating for use on critical PCBs in satellites, spacecraft and missiles has received a prestigious NASA MAPTIS (Materials and Processes Technical Information System) material number — 09841. As a result, 9771 is now recorded in the approved materials database used by NASA and suppliers. The importance of this listing is that […]
Webb: engineered to endure the recent micrometeoroid impacts
“Since launch, we have had four smaller measurable micrometeoroid strikes that were consistent with expectations and this one more recently that is larger than our degradation predictions assumed. We will use this flight data to update our analysis of performance…” Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, which routinely sustain many impacts […]
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft exits safe mode + goes with stellar navigation
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an extended safe mode event. The spacecraft encountered problems in February with its Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The mission team successfully diagnosed the issue with these navigation instruments and developed a system […]
Suiting up for NASA — Collins Aerospace + ILC Dover + Oceaneering
Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business — along with teammates ILC Dover and Oceaneering — have been selected to produce NASA’s next-generation spacesuit, which astronauts could wear when working outside the International Space Station and — within the next decade — on the moon. The new suits were designed by astronauts for astronauts […]