SpaceX Tests Falcon 9 Rocket ‘Crew Dragon’ Demo Flight
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space.com reported Friday.
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space.com reported Friday.
Lockheed Martin has partnered with United Technologies Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business to produce an avionic system for NASA's future supersonic aircraft platform.
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft has returned to Earth following a mission to the International Space Station. NASA said Monday the spacecraft dropped into the Pacific Ocean carrying space research data and ISS hardware.
General Atomics executives have said previous acquisitions of two small satellite manufacturers are helping the company build up its presence in the smallsat market, SpaceNews reported Monday.
The SpaceX Demo-1 uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station has been pushed back once again to make room for additional hardware testing and reviews. NASA and SpaceX have yet to specify a new launch date, but the U.S. space agency said Thursday that the rescheduled test flight will take place “no earlier than Februaryâ€.
BAE Systems recently revealed that NASA had equipped its InSight spacecraft, which landed on Mars in November last year, with BAE's radiation-hardened RAD750 single board computers. Jim LaRosa, the company's director for Space Processor and Products, said that the RAD750s "commanded a series of critical maneuvers" as InSight descended onto the Martian surface.
SpaceX has started preparations for the uncrewed test flight of its new Crew Dragon spacecraft scheduled for mid-January, Space.com reported Sunday. The company in the past week transferred the spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to Launch Pad 39A at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX hopes to launch Crew Dragon on Jan. 17 under the […] More
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company could opt to send the six ground spare satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation should an opportunity for a rideshare mission arise, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “If the right deal comes along, similar to the one that we had with Iridium-6 and the rideshare that we had with […] More
NASA‘s New Horizons exploration spacecraft, built by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has captured the image of the most distant space object explored in human history yet. The spacecraft, from a distance of 10.6K miles, photographed “Ultima Thule,” an object located within the Kuiper Belt, JHU APL said Wednesday. The object measures about 19.3 mi […] More
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has confirmed a spacecraft it built for NASA has reached its target object in the Kuiper Belt, performing the farthest space exploration in history. The New Horizons probe encountered Ultima Thule before New Year and already sent flyby data to an operations center on Earth, APL said Tuesday. APL received the images 10 hours […] More
Some industry executives have said that NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,†said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of Paragon Space Development, which teams […] More
SSL demonstrated its solar electric propulsion system on two communications satellites that were launched into geostationary orbit this year. The Maxar Technologies subsidiary said Wednesday SPT-140 is an updated version of the SPT-100 electric thruster that has supported 34 missions and logged more than 100K firing hours. SPT-140 is designed to use the Power Processing Unit 140 and multiple gimbaled Hall effect thrusters […] More
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