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CACI International explores how their current virtual training methods, already utilized by the International Space Station“™s training program, could also help prepare astronauts slated for Gateway, a proposed space station that will operate in the lunar orbit, Politico reported Friday.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin“™s lunar lander at a press conference held Thursday in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg reported Friday. The Blue Moon lander has an internal spherical power tank atop four landing pads and is powered by liquid hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells.
A team of NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researchers discovered that meteoroid streams passing through the moon could briefly disseminate small amounts of water vapor on the lunar exosphere.
NASA aims to partner with U.S.-based companies to design and develop new reusable landing platforms designed to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface. The agency said Friday it plans to begin testing of new landers on the moon in 2024 through multiphase partnerships in support of its goal to launch a crewed mission in 2028. […] More
Lockheed Martin has developed at its Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based facility a lunar habitat prototype for NASA“™s lunar Gateway that is slated for launch by 2024, Denver Business Journal reported Wednesday. The space agency plans to award in the fall of 2019 a contract to build the Gateway platform, which will serve as a command center […] More
Draper has teamed up with three other companies to bid for a project to build small exploration vehicles and scientific instruments to help NASA explore the moon“™s surface. Cambridge, Mass.-based Draper said Tuesday it will lead an industry team composed of General Atomics“™ electromagnetic systems group, ispace and Spaceflight Industries to pursue the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract. NASA asked industry […] More
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NanoRacks to seek concepts of commercial payloads that could fly on upcoming missions of NASA“™s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed said Friday the market assessment marks the initial step toward its vision to deliver commercial opportunities to deep space. Mike Hawes, Orion program manager and vice president of human space exploration […] More
Lockheed Martin“™s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA“™s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Orion is scheduled to launch in 2020 atop the Space Launch System for an unmanned flight test as part of Exploration Mission-1 and take off […] More
Lockheed Martin has provided an initial look of a 22-foot-long habitat prototype it has built for NASA in support of deep space missions, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday. The company unveiled at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the habitat, which is designed to accommodate up to four astronauts for a month to 60 days […] More
NASA has awarded Advanced Space a two-year contract to further develop a peer-to-peer lunar navigation system for potential government and commercial use. The company said Thursday work under the contract will build on a phase 1 six-month project and cover technical development of software and supporting systems. “As we increase the number of vehicles in space and missions to the […] More
NASA has chosen 10 companies to build platforms designed to gather, process and utilize space-based resources for lunar and Mars missions. The agency said Friday the companies will receive contracts worth approximately $10 million combined to perform work across three tracks as part of Appendix D of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 program. […] More
NASA could purchase rides on small commercial lander platforms beginning in late 2018 to initially deliver 22 pounds of scientific payloads to the Moon starting 2021, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The space agency looks to procure small instruments for the lunar flights, as well as lunar landers with a payload capacity of up to 2,204 pounds. […] More
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