Spaceport America and the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) have announced that the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America […]
Propulsion
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s 3D Printed RL10C-X Engine Passes Altitude Hot Fire Test Series
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a successful RL10C-X altitude hot fire test series that put the next generation engine through the rigors of a typical spaceflight mission. Using a test chamber […]
EAST Covers South … East’s Commercial Breakthrough Offers Coverage To Much Of South Asia
EAST‘s state-of-the-art newWAVE satellites will revolutionize the economics of broadband connectivity and make all satellites in-orbit and on-order obsolete… EAST Satellite Holding Pty Ltd (EAST) announces the signing of its first anchor-tenant […]
Trial Integration Completed By Norwegian Space Agency Of ThrustMe’s Propulsion System For NorSat-TD
The Norwegian Space Agency and ThrustMe have announced they have completed trial integration of ThrustMe’s NPT30-I2 propulsion system into the NorSat- TD satellite. During the mission, which is on schedule […]
General Atomics Awarded DARPA Contract For Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System For DRACO Mission
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded GA-EMS a contract to support the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) […]
Accion Systems’ In-Space Propulsion System Set For June Launch With Astro Digital + Starfish Space Via SpaceX Rideshare Mission
Accion Systems has announced that two TILE 2 in-space propulsion system units will launch onboard an Astro Digital smallsat aboard the June 2021 SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare launch. Astro Digital’s […]
DARPA Awards General Atomics Contract to Design Nuclear Thermal Propulsions Systems
To date, the SNAP-10A reactor has been the only U.S. nuclear power reactor launched into space, for which General Atomics was directly involved in nuclear fuel testing and characterization… General […]
Solar Electric Propulsion System Hot Fire Testing Completed By Maxar + Busek
Maxar Technologies and Busek Co. confirmed successful completion of an end-to-end hot fire test campaign validating all major elements of the 6 kW solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem being designed […]
NASA Contracts Spaceflight For The Agency’s LLITED Mission
This launch provider’s experience with new propulsive options that are determined to be paramount in helping scientists get spacecraft to non-traditional orbits… Spaceflight Inc., the global launch services provider, announced […]
Maxar and Busek Thruster System Pass Milestone For NASA Lunar Gateway
Busek Co., a developer of high-performance electric propulsion technology for space applications, and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), their partner and innovator in Earth intelligence and Space Infrastructure, have […]