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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. In less than a month, NASA is scheduled to embark upon a series of firsts: The first journey to an unknown metallic asteroid, Psyche. The first deep space use of Hall ...
Emposat’s Global TT&C Network. Image credit: Emposat. Oftentimes when people think of the emerging commercial space sector, two things come to mind: rockets and satellites. This is not surprising, as ...
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) submits this letter in response to the amendment (SAT-AMD-20210818-00105) filed by Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX) for a ...
In partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Universities Space Research Association, the United States Space Force announced the establishment of a new University Consortium Research ...
Dream Chaser shuttle during taxi tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Test Center in California. Image credit: Sierra Space. Sierra Space is working with NASA to develop a crewed version of its Dream ...
If I may start with a tired, but extremely true pun: covering the Chinese space industry inevitably involves a lot of reading of tea leaves. Speeches and press releases are full of party jargon. The ...
Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite mission delivers completely new information on forest height and above-ground forest biomass from space. This ...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of ...
The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft mass manufacturing company, announced its Series A fundraising round and customers flying on its first Aries satellite bus. Apex’s $16M Series A funding round, ...
Map of orbital debris around Earth. Image credit: NASA. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken its first-ever orbital debris enforcement action by fining DISH $150,000 for failing to ...