Momentus cuts workforce while evaluating strategic options
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:06
NASA's lunar trailblazer gets final payload for moon water hunt
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:12
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is nearing completion now that its second and final cutting-edge science instrument has been added to the small spacecraft. Built by the University of Oxford in England and contributed by the UK Space Agency, the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) joins the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3), which was integrated with the spacecraft late last year. Together, the instruments will enable scientists to determine the abundance, location, and form of the moon's water.
Led by Caltech in Pasadena, California, Lunar Trailblazer has a mass of about 440 pounds (200 kilograms) and measures only 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide with its solar panels fully deployed.
SkyWatch to offer integrated radar-optical satellite imagery
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:44
Space Force extends Wallaroo’s contract for on-orbit AI applications
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:06
XRISM spacecraft will open new window on the X-ray cosmos
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:00
The upcoming XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, pronounced "crism") spacecraft will study the universe's hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity.
Led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), XRISM will peer into these cosmic extremes using spectroscopy, the study of how light and matter interact. In this explainer, video producer Sophia Roberts from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center walks us through how understanding spectroscopy deepens our knowledge of the universe.
"I think we all get excited for the beautiful images we get from missions like NASA's James Webb Space Telescope," Roberts said. "But after taking a deep dive into spectroscopy, I really appreciate the critical context it gives scientists about the story behind those pictures.
New data reveal US space economy's output is shrinking—an economist explains in 3 charts
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:39
The space industry has changed dramatically since the Apollo program put men on the moon in the late 1960s.
Today, over 50 years later, private companies are sending tourists to the edge of space and building lunar landers. NASA is bringing together 27 countries to peacefully explore the moon and beyond, and it is using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time. Private companies are playing a much larger role in space than they ever have before, though NASA and other government interests continue to drive scientific advances.
I'm a macroeconomistwho's interested in understanding how these space-related innovations and the growing role of private industry have affected the economy.
Russia's Luna-25 probe to reach Moon orbit
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Moscow's Luna-25 lander is due to reach the Moon's orbit Wednesday, in the first such Russian mission in almost 50 years, according to the schedule of space agency Roscosmos.
With the lunar launch, Moscow's first since 1976, Russia is seeking to restart and rebuild on the Soviet Union's pioneering space programme.
The lander is set to revolve 100 kilometres (62 miles) above the Moon's su NASA's $985 million Psyche mission to all-metal asteroid nears liftoff
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Preparations are proceeding for the early October launch of a NASA orbiter that uses futuristic electric propulsion technology for a rendezvous with 16 Psyche, the heart of a demolished planet believed to be made almost entirely of iron.
Named after its interplanetary target, the $985 million mission is intended to help scientists determine whether the 140-mile-wide asteroid - which varie Enjoying the Climb: Sols 3916-3918
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Earth planning date: Friday, August 11, 2023: In this weekend's plan, Curiosity is behaving much as you would as you climb a mountain. You pause occasionally to look around at what lies beneath your boots - the reward for your hard work up to that point. You also take time to enjoy the view and turn your gaze uphill to the path ahead - the unknown enticing you forward.
To do the former, Cu Rocket Lab to launch NASA Arctic ice caps satellites
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a double-launch deal with NASA to deliver the Agency's climate change research-focused mission, PREFIRE, to low Earth orbit in 2024.
The two dedicated missions on Electron will deploy one small satellite each to a 525km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand from May 2024. The PREFIRE mission has specific LTAN (Local Ti Momentus awarded innovation research contract from Space Development Agency
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has signed a contract with the U.S. Defense Department's Space Development Agency (SDA) for a Small Business Innovation Research Award, "Orbital Service Vehicle Enhancements to Meet Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Requirements."
Under this award, Momentus will tailor the capabilities of its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle to support a full range of DoD pay Viasat Real-Time Earth opens ground station in Japan
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), today announced the opening of a Real-Time Earth (RTE) ground station in Hokkaido, Japan, now enabling RTE customers the ability to downlink Ka-band payload data in the northwestern Pacific at the site hosted by RTE partner Infostellar. This new ground site gives RTE customers unique access to a strategic location that reduces the time it takes to deliver mission crit KBR JV awarded $719M contract to aid NASA's development of space orbital systems
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
KBR (NYSE: KBR) is pleased to announce NASA's award to the Space and Technology Solutions team, a KBR joint venture with Intuitive Machines (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW), to provide multidisciplinary engineering for some of NASA's most critical space orbital systems in its Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland. The Government Accountability Offi China's Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches five new satellites
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
China launched a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket on Monday afternoon at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, placing five communication satellites in space, according to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.
The State-owned space contractor said in a news release that the solid-propellant rocket blasted off at 1:32 pm from its launch vehicle and soon deployed the He All Eyes on the Ice Giants
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:27
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft plans to observe Uranus and Neptune from its location far out in the outer solar system this fall, and the mission team is inviting the global amateur astronomy community to come along for the ride - and make a real contribution to space science - by observing both ice giants at the same time.
In September - in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope - New Hor