GAO: U.S. Space Command basing decision process fell short on ‘transparency and credibility’
GAO in a June 2 report said the Air Force’s basing selection process for U.S. Space Command lacked transparency and credibility.
The post GAO: U.S. Space Command basing decision process fell short on ‘transparency and credibility’ appeared first on SpaceNews.
Long March 2C launches 9 navigation test satellites for Chinese automaker
A Long March 2C launched nine positioning and connectivity test satellites early Thursday, in a first step for a constellation to support autonomous driving for automaker Geely.
NASA to buy five additional Crew Dragon flights
NASA is planning to purchase five more Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station from SpaceX, a move the agency says is needed to ensure long-term access to the station.
Lockheed and ABL’s first UK vertical launch slips into 2023
Lockheed Martin no longer expects its UK Pathfinder mission will fly this year, although it remains in the running to perform the first-ever vertical launch to orbit from British soil.
The post Lockheed and ABL’s first UK vertical launch slips into 2023 appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA moon mission set to break record in navigation signal test
As the Artemis missions journey to the moon and NASA plans for the long voyage to Mars, new navigation capabilities will be key to science, discovery, and human exploration.
Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, will deliver an experimental payload to the moon's Mare Crisium basin. NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payload will test a powerful new lunar navigation capability using Earth's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals at the moon for the first time. GNSS refers to satellite constellations commonly used for position, navigation, and timing services on Earth.
Earth from Space: Puglia, Italy
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
What the Voyager probes can teach humanity about immortality and legacy
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records. These messages in a bottle include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds and images Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in early February- a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but NASA selects new instruments for priority Artemis science on Moon
Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time.
These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRIS Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-bound on NASA's DAVINCI
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022
Venus Oxygen Fugacity (VfOx) is a small, button-sized sensor aboard NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus' atmosphere that will be designed, fabricated, tested, operated, and analyzed by undergraduate and graduate students as the mission's Student Collaboration Experiment.
Planned for launch in 2029, the DAVINCI mission (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Nob 
