Space Command chief calls for orbital gas stations as China tests satellite refueling
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 21:35
Military space assets need the same logistics backbone as terrestrial forces, argues Gen.
Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy could enable future satellite swarms to complete science goals with little human help
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NASA's Black Marble: Stories from the night sky
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer moon mission ends
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Interlune to fly instrument on Astrolab’s FLIP rover
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 12:00
Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, will fly an instrument on the first lunar rover from fellow startup Astrolab.
Golden Dome requires non-traditional thinking and an agile approach
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 12:00
Big systems projects are nothing novel in defense acquisition.
NASA Acting Chief Duffy issues directive to speed up moon reactor plans
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Rocket Lab launches iQPS radar imaging satellite
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 09:19
A Rocket Lab Electron launched the latest in a series of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellites for a Japanese company Aug.
First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:41
As preparations to launch Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite continue on track, the team at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid a heartfelt farewell to this precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Ariane 6 rocket’s fairing.
This all-new weather satellite, which hosts the first Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument, is set to take to the skies on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).
UAF satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:33
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public to use.
"Most of what we've been working on for the past eight years is preparing for NISAR," Alaska Satellite Facility Director Wade Albright said prior to the launch.
The Alaska Satelli World's first Open RAN D2D LEO network to be built by MDA Space for EchoStar
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:33
EchoStar Corporation has chosen MDA Space as the prime contractor to develop the world's first 3GPP 5G-compliant low Earth orbit (LEO) direct-to-device (D2D) satellite constellation built on Open RAN architecture. The contract launches MDA Space into full-scale production of its software-defined MDA AURORA D2D satellites for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) expected to redefine global mobile conn NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:33
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon ended in failure after the government agency lost contact with the spacecraft one day after the launch in February and never regained communication despite extensive efforts.
The mission ended Friday, NASA said Monday in a news release.
On Feb. 26, the satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines aboard a SpaceX Falcon Intuitive Machines wins funding to advance orbital logistics vehicle
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:33
Intuitive Machines has secured a $9.8 million government contract to progress its Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) through Critical Design Review, the final engineering phase before manufacturing begins. This Phase Two award expands the company's government work beyond lunar surface delivery and strengthens its role in the growing market for orbital mobility solutions.
The award is not affil Argo and ThinkOrbital to launch first orbital mission using long-range X-ray imaging
Tuesday, 05 August 2025 07:33
Argo Space Corp. and ThinkOrbital have announced a strategic partnership to launch the first-ever space mission featuring long-range, high-voltage X-ray imaging for space domain awareness (SDA). The mission, scheduled for 2026, will deploy ThinkOrbital's proprietary ThinkX imaging system aboard Argo's agile spacecraft platform.
The initiative combines Argo's maneuverable, refuellable space