Magna UT (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first two 63-inch-diameter extended length Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63XL) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The solid rocket boosters will support the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket planned for first quarter 2023. At approximately 72-feet-long, and weighing over 117,000 pounds, the GEM 63XL is the

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
Two very different payloads flying on one rocket are ready for their ride to space. Creating an integrated stack that stands 25 feet tall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) spacecraft are safely secured inside the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V roc

Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 19, 2022
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and the Luxembourg Minister of Defence has signed a Letter of Intent that will begin the process towards developing responsive space capabilities inclusive of mobile launch infrastructure that would be based in Luxembourg, but available for NATO partners, and other Allies across the European continent. As part of the agreement, Virgin Orbit, in close coordination with

The OneSat family of geostationary software-defined telecommunications satellites has passed successfully its first qualification review.

Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Oct 21, 2022
D-Orbit announces a contract in collaboration with Elecnor Deimos for the launch and deployment of ALISIO-1, a 6U CubeSat procured by Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC). ALISIO-1 will be launched onboard ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit's flexible and cost-effective satellite platform able to precisely deploy satellites in orbit and facilitate the testing of new technologies in space.

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 20, 2021
SpaceX successfully launched its latest round of Starlink satellites Thursday, bringing the total number in orbit to more than 3,500, the company confirmed in a celebratory post. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:50 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rocket was carrying a batch of 54 satellites into low-Earth orbit, the fourth shell of the

Paris, France (AFP) Oct 20, 2022
A growing number of seizures of guns made at home from 3D-printed parts are raising alarm bells for European police over an emerging threat. For now, interest among far-right activists may be limited, say analysts - and fears of a society awash with print-it-yourself weapons remain far-fetched. But homemade guns have become more widespread since 2013, when a US weapons enthusiast first

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022
Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don't have enough memory or power to store and run the enormous machine-learning models needed for the device to understand what a user is asking of it. The model is stored in a data center that may be hundreds of miles away, where

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2022
The VASI (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) instrument aboard NASA's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI, mission to Venus, together with the other instruments on this mission, aims to investigate Venus' mysterious atmosphere by painting a more detailed picture of it than ever before. VASI will be installed on the DAVINCI mission'

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 21, 2022
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. NASA has successfully touched down on Mars nine times, relying on cutting-edge parachutes, massive airbags, and jetpacks to set spacecraft safely on the surface. Now engineers are testing whether or not the easiest way to get to the Martian surface is to crash. Rather than slow a spacecraft