SpaceX conducted its 23rd Commercial Resupply Services mission with the Sunday launch of Dragon spacecraft that will bring to the International Space Station over 4,800 pounds of payload, including space equipment, crew supplies and science experiments on bone protection and astronaut optometry. The spacecraft lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Florida-based Kennedy […] More
Lauren Lyons, former executive at Blue Origin and SpaceX, was appointed as chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace where she will be responsible for driving efforts in scaling production and operations to support company growth. The new COO will focus on moving Firefly toward a production environment from its research and development setting to ensure […] More
DUJUD has secured a contract to develop a man-portable terminal through which U.S. Special Operations Command would harness commercial satellite communications. The company said Wednesday its future SATCOM terminal would operate with the Starlink constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites operated by SpaceX. The contract aims to address the limitations of conventional 2D phased-array […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched two spacecraft under the Blackjack program in an effort to demonstrate advanced laser communications terminals. DARPA said Wednesday the pair of Mandrake 2 satellites reached orbit in late June as part of the SpaceX Transporter 2 launch and are currently undergoing checkout and commissioning. The agency considers […] More
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has launched the fifth Lockheed Martin-made satellite with GPS III navigation technology. The fifth GPS III Space Vehicle launched Thursday on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to join the current network of GPS satellites, Los Angeles Air Force Base said. […] More
The fifth Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite has started using its liquid apogee engine to reach its operational orbit and is expected to deploy its antennas and solar arrays in respond to commands from company and U.S. Space Force engineers once it arrives. GPS III Space Vehicle 05 launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on […] More
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, has asked Congress for $79.8 million in his fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list to fund testing of new terminal prototypes that can connect with multiple commercial constellations. The requested amount would continue testing of SpaceX and OneWeb low-Earth-orbit satellite […] More
SpaceX has launched a Dragon resupply spacecraft with over 7,300 pounds of new solar arrays, research materials and various supplies en route to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which marks NASA’s 22nd SpaceX resupply mission, carries the new ISS Roll-out Solar Arrays and scientific investigations on topics including microgravity, cotton production, ultrasounds and virtual […] More
SpaceX has agreed to send Axiom Space private crews to the International Space Station through three more commercial flights with the Dragon spacecraft. The missions would mark the first trips that fly private crews to ISS using Dragon, which SpaceX developed for NASA’s Commercial Crew program, Axiom said Wednesday. The space agency launched the program […] More
SpaceX has been selected to launch a Firefly Aerospace-built lunar lander in 2023 using the Falcon 9 rocket for NASA’s mission to land science and technology payloads on the moon’s surface. Firefly said Thursday it will use the Blue Ghost spacecraft to deploy 10 technologies for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, as part of […] More
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