Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft — with the PDR completed, […]
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Launch Services Contract For Europa Clipper Mission Awarded By NASA
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The Europa Clipper mission will […]
Ad Astra’s VASIMR Plasma Rocket Champions High Power Endurance Test
Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR® VX-200SS Plasma Rocket has completed 88 hours of continuous operation at 80 kW at the company’s Texas laboratory near Houston. In doing so, the company […]
Blue Origin’s First Human Flight Mission Is A Total Success
Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard’s first human flight today with four private citizens onboard — those now-astronaut individuals included Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, who all officially passed the Kármán Line, an internationally recognized boundary of space. […]
Sierra Space Names Their New CEO
Sierra Space, the new commercial space subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), has named senior aerospace executive Tom Vice as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Tom Vice joins Sierra Space […]
U.S. Space Radar Could Be Installed In the U.K.
From the U.K’s Guardian publication is a published article that discusses an American space force plan that is being considered to develop a global monitoring system that is able to […]
The Space Foundation’s Space Report Reveals Five Years Of Growth For The Global Space Economy — $447 Billion + Counting…
Commercial space grew 6.6% in 2020, representing nearly 80% of space economy — the US, China and ESA remain the top three investors in global space economy— US military space […]
Advanced Manufacturing Facility For NASA’s Orion Missions Opened By Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has now opened their Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center that features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity […]
Pulling Their Expertise Together: Alpha Space + MEI Technologies
Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance (Alpha Space) and technology/defense company MEI Technologies, Inc. (MEIT) will form a single integrated business to offer a range of commercial space services, technology […]
The House CJS Subcommittee FY22 NASA Budget Markup Comments From The Coalition For Deep Space Exploration
The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) strongly commends the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and related agencies (CJS) Subcommittee for its markup of the FY2022 NASA Budget […]