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Lockheed Martin‘s uncrewed Orion capsule has surpassed the farthest distance ever traveled by a human-rated spacecraft, CNN reported Monday. NASA confirmed that the capsule, which launched Nov. 16 aboard the Space Launch System powered by Boeing‘s core stage, has so far flown 270,000 miles from Earth. The distance is more than 40,000 miles past the […] More
Honeybee Robotics, a research, development and manufacturing engineering company, has landed a $17.7 million contract to support NASA’s construction of the Mars Sample Return Capture, Containment and Retrieval System. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Honeybee will provide manpower, services, equipment and facilities for the CCRS Earth Entry System and its component, the Spin Eject Mechanism, the […] More
Boeing and NASA conducted a field test to determine the carbon emission rate from using sustainable fuel blends on the 2022 ecoDemonstrator aircraft powered by 26-year-old Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines. NASA said the study advances a goal similar with Boeing’s to adopt alternative fuels in order to reduce aerospace-related carbon footprint. Researchers compared the amount […] More
ADNET Systems will continue to support planetary studies, solar and space plasma physics, oceanography, solid earth geographics, geodynamics, atmospheric science and climatology and other science disciplines under a six-month contract extension awarded by NASA through the fourth iteration of the Space and Earth Science Data Analysis program. The potential $36 million extension brings the total […] More
NASA will purchase 15 million lbs of liquid hydrogen from Linde and Air Products and Chemicals under two agreements potentially worth more than $80 million. The two-year, multiple firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery contracts take effect Dec. 1, with an option to extend to Nov. 30, 2025, the space agency said Tuesday. Liquid hydrogen serves as cryogenic rocket […] More
GeoOptics will provide commercial small constellation satellite data products to NASA to help scale agency-collected data for future use. The technology company will deliver a catalog of its commercial high-resolution Earth observation data products, which will include data sets, associated metadata and collateral information, data cadence, data latency, area coverage and data usage policy under […] More
Boeing’s X-37B spacecraft landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday following a 908-day on-orbit stint that was its sixth Orbital Test Vehicle mission with the U.S. Space Force. The unmanned reusable spacecraft hosted multiple payloads for the U.S. military and partners including the Naval Research Laboratory’s solar energy project and the U.S. Air Force […] More
Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has awarded Momentus a contract modification to send a pair of nanosatellites into orbit for a potential 2023 mission to observe the Earth’s upper atmosphere at night. Momentus said Monday it will provide an orbital service vehicle for two CubeSats that Aerospace Corp. developed to help the agency carry out the Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere […] More
General Atomics completed a baseline design of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor and engine and tested the components of the reactor as part of the initial phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program. The company said Monday it assessed the high-temperature fuel elements of the NTP reactor […] More
Northrop Grumman kicked off a seventh cargo flight under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract on Monday morning to deliver over 8,200 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed ‘S.S. Sally Ride’ after the first American woman to reach space, launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility […] More
Rocket Lab has commenced operations on its new testing facility at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi where it will develop and test the Archimedes reusable engine. The aerospace manufacturer’s Archimedes Test Complex will see testing work on 165,000 pound-force of engines, which will be utilized for the production of its reusable Neutron launch vehicle, […] More
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