True Anomaly gets $17 million Space Force contract for space domain awareness software
Friday, 22 September 2023 00:18
NASA Mars Sample Return budget and schedule “unrealistic,” independent review concludes
Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:55
Researchers ready NASA's SPHEREX space telescope for 2025 launch
Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:18
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, is set to launch into orbit around Earth no later than April 2025.
It will map the entire sky in infrared wavelengths of light, capturing not only images of hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies but spectra for these objects as well. Spectra are created by instruments that break apart light into a rainbow of wavelengths, revealing new details about a cosmic object's composition, distance, and more.
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment completes space environment tests
Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:21
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) has successfully completed critical space environment tests. Planned for launch to the International Space Station in November 2023, AWE will study atmospheric gravity waves in Earth's atmosphere to help us better understand the connections between terrestrial weather and space.
"AWE is a highly sensitive, precise science instrument designed to be fitted on the International Space Station and operate in the harsh space environment," said Burt Lamborn, AWE project manager at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), which is building the instrument for NASA. "To ensure that AWE will survive launch turbulence and operate as designed once in space, SDL put the instrument through its paces on the ground.
Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:00
Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in our Solar System that could potentially harbour conditions suitable for life. Previous research has shown that beneath its water-ice crust lies a salty ocean of liquid water with a rocky seafloor. However, planetary scientists had not confirmed whether or not that ocean contained the chemicals needed for life, particularly carbon.
Autonomous systems help NASA's Perseverance do more science on Mars
Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:31
A computer pilot helps NASA's six-wheeled geologist as it searches for rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation.
In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently navigated its way through a field of boulders more than 1,700 feet wide (about a half-kilometer).
The Artemis Accords: Changing the Narrative from Space Race to Space Cooperation
Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:25
Millennium Space Systems' VICTUS NOX space vehicle operational in just 37 hours
Thursday, 21 September 2023 12:25
Millennium Space Systems has completed checkout and achieved operational readiness of the VICTUS NOX space vehicle just 37 hours after lunch - 11 hours ahead of the 48-hour goal. This phase of a space mission typically takes weeks or months to complete.
"Conducting space vehicle initialization and achieving mission readiness in record time demonstrates a dramatic shift in the way we delive NAVISP Industry Days 2023: register now
Thursday, 21 September 2023 11:57
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FAA proposes rule to limit lifetime of upper stages in orbit
Thursday, 21 September 2023 11:16
ESA works with EU on secure connectivity
Thursday, 21 September 2023 11:13
Keeping European citizens safe from cyberattacks that can lead to the disruption of essential supplies – such as power, water and the flow of crucial information – is vital in today’s increasingly digital world. ESA and the European Commission have today signed an agreement to use space to help keep information secure.
Space Force revising commercial space strategy to make it “actionable”
Thursday, 21 September 2023 09:50
Space Mobility Conference returns to SpaceCom | Space Congress 2024
Thursday, 21 September 2023 09:08
The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC), in coordination with SpaceCom, announces its second annual Space Mobility Conference to extend SSC's Assured Access to Space (AATS) mission through cooperation and collaboration with government, industry, allied, and academic partners.
The conference opens on Jan. 30, 2024, during Commercial Space Week, co-located with the Global Spacepor Seeking Innovative Concepts for Space Superiority
Thursday, 21 September 2023 09:08
DARPA is seeking innovative concepts from small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors in the technical domain of space superiority as the second topic issued under the agency's Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems (BRIDGES) initiative. With this topic, the agency is looking for new methods and technologies that may provide warfighters with disruptive optio