NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission successfully completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the […]
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Teledyne Space Imaging’s two sun-synchronous orbit imaging sensors for NASA explorer missions
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), provider of advanced imaging solutions, announced that sensors from Teledyne Space Imaging will play a key role in two prestigious NASA explorer missions that are ready […]
NASA awards contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 […]
NASA awards contract for NOAA’s Space Weather program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build three coronagraphs for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space […]
NASA’s Heliophysics experiment to study Sun on European mission
NASA has selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency’s Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture images of […]
SwRI to build spacecraft bus for in-space refueler servicer program
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will build, integrate and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25.5 million Space Mobility and Logistics (SML) prototyping project funded by the U.S. […]
SwRI scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
Using data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) — a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR — Southwest Research Institute scientists have […]
Virgin Galactic’s sixth successful mission in six months with a suborbital lab
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of its sixth space mission in six months and tenth to date. The ‘Galactic 05’ […]
Solstar Space names an expert Space Advisor
Solstar Space (Solstar) announces Dr. Alan Stern as an expert advisor to support the development of the company’s forthcoming, space-based, internet connectivity systems. Dr. Stern is scheduled to perform a […]
NASA awards NOAA’s QuickSounder spacecraft contract
NASA, on behalf of NOAA, has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio for the QuickSounder spacecraft. The […]