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SpaceX“™s Dragon spacecraft lifted off Wednesday aboard its Falcon 9 rocket to bring over 5.6K pounds of supplies and research payloads to the International Space Station. The launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida marks the company“™s 16th mission to ISS under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services contract, the agency said Thursday. Dragon carried the Global Ecosystem Dynamics […] More
Northrop Grumman has announced that its automated cargo spacecraft slated to be deployed to the International Space Station will be named after former U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut John Young. The Cygnus spacecraft will be launched aboard Northrop“™s Antares rocket on Nov. 15 from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA“™s Wallops Flight […] More
KBR“™s government services arm has earned NASA’s nod as one of 13 contract awardees who will conduct research on potential commercial opportunities in low-Earth orbit. The contract tasks KBRwyle to develop strategies on how to provide affordable LEO-related technology and encourage commercial and government use of systems designed for LEO, KBR said Monday. The company is additionally […] More
NASA and Harris have conducted thermal vacuum tests on the future James Webb Space Telescope to evaluate the system’s capacity to operate within the space environment. Harris said Monday the telescope is designed to function as a space observatory over the next decade and conduct studies on star, planet and galaxy formations. The telescope will be shipped to […] More
NASA will collaborate with a team of space researchers in Brazil to conduct a joint CubeSat mission as part of efforts to study phenomena that occur within the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task mission aims to observe the equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation in the ionosphere that affect radio communications, satellite technologies […] More
The Washington-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has secured a potential five-year, $34 million contract from NASA to conduct studies within the domain of the space agency’s science and technology programs. NASA said Saturday the Space Studies Board indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers research designed to address various questions regarding space science, Earth science, biological and physical […] More
United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace have formed a partnership to build and launch habitable volumes into low Earth orbit in an effort to support research efforts in space. Bigelow Aerospace plans to integrate the habitable volumes with the B330 expandable module and launch the module onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture ULA“™s Atlas V […] More
United Launch Alliance has introduced a science, technology, engineering and math education program that aims to encourage university students to launch their miniaturized satellites for free onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s future rocket missions. “ULA will offer universities the chance to compete for at least six CubeSat launch slots on two Atlas V missions, with […] More
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