In February of 2021, L3Harris was selected to develop and deploy the ground system command and control (C2) for NOAA’s environmental satellite program, Space Weather Follow On (SWFO). The SWFO […]
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UPDATE 1: Mars + NASA Perseverance Rover: Continuing News
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on February 21 after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the […]
Redwire Acquires Deployable Space Systems
Redwire has acquired Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), a supplier of mission-enabling deployable solar arrays, structures and mechanisms for space applications — terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded […]
Teledyne Technologies Image Sensors On Mars With Perseverance
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) has contributed several of the company’s advanced, high performance, image sensors to form part of the complex instrumentation onboard the Mars Rover Perseverance. Teledyne sensors will […]
Northrop Grumman’s Components Support NASA’s Perseverance On Mars
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) provided key navigation and critical components to support NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Perseverance Rover, which landed on Mars’ Jezero Crater today, February 18, 2021. The […]
UPDATE 1: Perseverance Pays Off — ULA Lands NASA’s Rover Successfully Landing On Mars
Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as controllers confirmed that NASA’s Perseverance rover, with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attached to its belly, has touched down safely […]
Axiom Space’s Series B Funding Raises Millions
Axiom Space, Inc. has raised $130 million in Series B funding. The round was led by C5 Capital and includes TQS Advisors, Declaration Partners (the investment firm backed by David […]
Ball Aerospace To Build NASA’s GLIDE Spacecraft
Ball Aerospace was recently selected to build the spacecraft for NASA’s Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) heliophysics science Mission of Opportunity. GLIDE will study variability in Earth’s exosphere, […]
NASA Designates $93.3M To Firefly To Deliver Demo Lunar Payloads
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has received a NASA award of $93.3 million to deliver a suite of ten, NASA-sponsored, science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium […]
UPDATE 2: SpaceX Starship SN9 Sent Forth… Return Landing Is A RUD
On Tuesday, February 2, Starship serial number 9 (SN9) completed SpaceX’s second high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from the SpaceX site in Cameron County, Texas. Similar to the […]