NASA has awarded a worldwide commercial license and contract to Apollo Fusion for Jet Propulsion Laboratory's magnetically shielded miniature hall thruster. The award allows Apollo Fusio... Read more
Maxar Technologies has completed a preliminary design review of spacecraft being developed to help NASA explore the metallic 16 Psyche asteroid for the first time and gain insight into how p... Read more
Techstars and Starburst have launched a new accelerator program that seeks to help startups developing space-based technologies and other related platforms. Matt Kozlov, former head of the C... Read more
A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA’s Mars exploration mission landed Monday on the red planet’s surface. The InSight Mars Lander made its descent on Elysium Planitia in the pla... Read more
The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate and industry will conduct an operational experimentation from Dec. 4 to 5 in Houston to assess technology platforms u... Read more
Multinational software company Autodesk has launched a multiyear research project with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore new ways to design and build a spacecraft for long-duration... Read more
Northrop Grumman’s solar electric ion propulsion-powered Dawn spacecraft has reached the end of its 11-year mission to two planet-like bodies that drift between Mars and Jupiter. The company... Read more
NASA has certified the use of a 180-pound parachute for its Mars 2020 mission after completing a series of tests under the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inf... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen nine multidisciplinary teams to develop approaches to explore underground environments as part of DARPA’s Subterranean Challeng... Read more
NASA obtained data from its latest observation campaign of the Ball Aerospace-built Kepler spacecraft, despite the observatory having only a little amount of fuel onboard. The space agency s... Read more
NASA’s Langley Research Center has partnered with Blue Origin through a Tipping Point solicitation to leverage sensor suites for lunar landing missions. The space agency said Friday the effo... Read more
Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has been tapped by Zin Technologies to develop and test a flight system designed for NASA’s Psyche mission that aims to explore a metal asteroid and help s... Read more
AeroVironment has collaborated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an unmanned helicopter platform as part of the Mars Exploration Program. The company displayed during a press... Read more
Amazon Web Services kicked off its two-day Public Sector Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, welcomed approximately 9,00... Read more
Johns Hopkins APL-Made Europa Mission Instrument Passes Critical Design Review
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has concluded critical design review of a science instrument that will support studies on Europa, a moon that orbits Jupiter. Read more