Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands (Airbus DS NL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative activities regarding ground equipment for space-to-ground optical communication. […]
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Orion Artemis I Spacecraft Assembly + Testing By Lockheed Martin Completed
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is ready for its mission to the Moon. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has completed assembly and testing of the Orion Artemis I spacecraft and has transferred possession […]
Intuitive Machines’ 2nd Mission To The Moon To Be Launched By SpaceX
There are currently five awarded Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions to the lunar surface that are scheduled to occur during the next three years. Intuitive Machines (IM) has two […]
Gateway Partnership For Artemis Program Signed by NASA + Government of Japan
NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement strengthens the broad […]
Altamira Awarded An $8 Million+ Space Mission Data Processing Award By USSF
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Altamira Technologies a prototype project contract valued at $8.5 million for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Mission […]
Made In Space Makes History With Manufacturing @ ISS + Also Receives Prestigious NASA Award
Redwire recently announced that the company’s Ceramic Manufacturing Module (CMM) successfully manufactured a ceramic part in space for the first time. The commercially developed in-space manufacturing facility successfully operated with […]
Tethers Unlimited’s Suite, Astro Porter, Added To NASA’s Integrated Payload List (IPL)
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) has announced that NASA has added TUI’s AstroPorter to the Integrated Payload List (IPL) for testing on the International Space Station (ISS). AstroPorter is a suite […]
UPDATE: Looking @ The Cosmos With Virtual Reality
Mechdyne Corporation is providing a 70 million pixel virtual reality display to the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California — the unique, overhead curve of the […]
Celebrating 20 Years Of Human Presence Aboard ISS
NASA is commemorating 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting laboratory and has released on their ISS infosite several informative documents, including an interesting […]
Oxygen From Lunar Dust? Int’l Team Says Such Could Occur
An international team led by Airbus Defence and Space (Friedrichshafen, Germany), with scientists from Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM (Dresden, Germany), Boston University (Massachusetts, USA) and […]