Vaya Space, Inc. has entered into a multi-faceted contract with NASA to demonstrate the company’s technologies and engine performance at the Stennis Space and Kennedy Space Centers. Vaya Space conducted their inaugural launch earlier this year and has been rapidly expanding operations and technology suite since that event. The company received notification of its first […]
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Advanced Navigation to be first Australian company to reach the Moon through development of two unique navigation systems
Most importantly it can indicate the vehicle’s velocity and position relative to the lunar surface in three dimensions with extreme accuracy and precision… Advanced Navigation, a determined innovator in AI robotics, and navigation technology has today announced its ambitions to be the first Australian company to reach the Moon through its development of two unique […]
Lockheed Martin-developed NIRCam within NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures a galaxy cluster as it appeared billions of years ago
NASA has released the first image of some of the earliest light in our universe, taken with an instrument that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) designed and built. The debut photo from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is the first from one of the most sensitive, infrared cameras ever built to observe […]
Terran Orbital completes CAPSTONE’s first TCM burn
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has successfully completed the NASA CAPSTONE satellite’s first TCM burn (TCM-1) As the first statistical maneuver of the mission, TCM-1 is designed to clean up expected dispersions from the launch vehicle injection – enabling CAPSTONE to continue its pathfinding lunar journey in support of NASA’s Artemis program. Terran Orbital Guidance Navigation […]
Garbage Out of ISS thanks to the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock
As of 7:05 p.m. central time on Saturday, July 2nd, NanoRacks successfully cycled the Bishop Airlock aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed the company’s first-of-its-kind technology to dispose of approximately 172 lbs. of waste from the station. This successful test, developed and performed in collaboration with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, demonstrates a more […]
Terran Orbital completes NASA Pathfinder Tech Demo 3 bus commissioning less than a week post launch
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has announced that the company’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite has completed bus commissioning with all health and status checkouts nominal. Terran Orbital designed and built the PTD-3 satellite in support of NASA’s PTD series of missions. The missions will test the operation of a variety of novel small […]
UPDATE 6: Lunar Transfer Orbit achieved by Rocket Lab for the NASA CAPSTONE smallsat — 1st deep space mission success for the company
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 […]
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 […]