Northrop Grumman’s upcoming 17th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station includes a more than 2,000-lb. payload to support future human deep space exploration and address issues on Earth like cancer treatment.
Hungary is inviting space experiments from Singapore to be part of the research agenda for the astronaut it will send to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space announced Feb. 9 that it has finished thermal vacuum testing of the payload for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Block 0 program, ensuring the satellite’s sensor payload can survive in space.
The day after a SpaceX Falcon 9 delivered a batch of 49 Starlink satellites into orbit, a solar storm struck, causing atmospheric particles from Earth to expand into space, increasing drag on the newly launched flock.
Having achieved steady progress in the areas of space technology and manufacturing, Singapore outlined a three-pronged strategy to encourage further growth in the local space sector at the Global Space & Technology Convention.
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a Mars Ascent Vehicle, a small rocket capable of launching samples of Martian rock, soil and air gathered by the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover for return to Earth.
The investment fully funds E-Space’s Beta 1 launch of its first test satellites in March, as well as its Beta 2 launch “later” this year, the company says.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s upgraded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T—the third in the GOES-R series of weather observation and environmental monitoring spacecraft—is undergoing preparations for a March 1 launch.
The UK is moving to bolster its burgeoning sustainable space sector with government funding for projects to advance capabilities ranging from situational awareness to debris removal.
A team including former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk has unveiled a new business venture to develop and operate a reconfigurable robotic outpost and space tug in cislunar space, with an eye on providing payload hosting, communications, in-space transportation, remote sensing and other services to commercial and government customers, including the Defense Department.
Boeing says successful tests of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center clear the way for large-scale application of the lightweight technology in future spacecraft and aircraft.
A day after delivering a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite into orbit from California, SpaceX returned its attention to building its Starlink broadband communications network with a midafternoon Feb. 3 launch of another Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
Engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have begun a three-month process to align the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror, fine-turning its shape so that it operates as a unified, 21-ft.-dia. mirror, NASA said on Feb. 3.
An entrepreneur with a background in space companies and an aerospace-focused investment group are partnering to launch a new company, O-G, that aims to provide microgravity and low Earth orbit (LEO) insertion services.
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and its companion Ingenuity drone helicopter are turning their focus to the remnants of a stream delta that was perhaps the site of a wet, habitable environment more than 3.5 billion years ago.
The startup, which is planning to perform its first launch from Space Hub Sutherland on the Scottish mainland later this year, is the first UK-based launch provider to disclose that it has applied for such a license.
The International Space Station (ISS) partnership gave its formal blessing for the four-member Axiom-1 (Ax-1) crew to visit the orbital outpost, with launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule now slated for March 30, a day earlier than previously planned.
NASA is retargeting the rollout of its first Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule for a tanking test at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B to mid-March, a month later than planned.
A month after announcing the Biden administration’s support to extend International Space Station operations from 2024 to 2030, NASA has provided a congressionally required update of its transition strategy.
Russia’s Glavkosmos, the commercial arm of space agency Roscosmos, signed an agreement with Bangladesh Satellite Co. Ltd. on Feb. 2 to build and launch Bangladesh’s first Earth observation system.
