NASA’s Canadian, European and Japanese space agency partners are speaking enthusiastically about the potential for advances in science and technology during the remaining years of the International Space Station and plans by the U.S. agency to transition those activities to commercial successors.
Boston Materials and Textron have agreed to jointly develop a new thermal protection system they say will enable a reusable rocket to be launched “again within hours of reentry into the atmosphere.”
NASA and the European Space Agency are dropping plans for a dedicated Mars rover to fetch rock and soil samples being collected by the ongoing Perseverance science rover.
Top NASA officials have offered assurances the agency is working to maintain International Space Station operations through 2030 and include access to its U.S. National Laboratory community.
As NASA looks to transition scientific research and development activities underway aboard the International Space Station to successor private-sector stations, it must identify and overcome the constraints, program officials warn.
United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi has been named to lift off to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission planned for launch next spring.
SpaceX is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to quickly reject a proposal from the Dish Network and the private trust of Dell Technologies’ CEO Michael Dell for rights to use the 12-GHz bandwidth to expand fixed, low-power terrestrial links into high-power mobile links.
The U.S. Air Force has an “informal” agreement with the National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Office to create joint requirements and co-fund new space-based capabilities that can meet both intelligence and operational needs.
In its nearly 22 years of continuous staffing, the International Space Station has hosted more than 2,500 science investigations and technology-development activities, a legacy benefiting both life on Earth and the human exploration of deep space, according to a new report from NASA
NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.
Millennium Space Systems says it has demonstrated several new technologies–including new avionics, communications devices, onboard processing of data and radio-frequency crosslinks–with a three-satellite constellation called RED-EYE that showcases the strength of small satellites.
NASA has targeted three potential launch dates for Artemis I, a multiweek uncrewed first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on a mission around the Moon and back to Earth.
