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- Chinese Scientists Outline Comprehensive Cislunar Space Infrastructure Plan The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 Chinese Scientists Outline Comprehensive Cislunar Space Infrastructure Plan
- Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Fifth Radar Imaging Satellite for Synspective The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Fifth Radar Imaging Satellite for Synspective
- Capella Space Secures $14.9 Million SAR Services Contract from U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 Capella Space Secures $14.9 Million SAR Services Contract from U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
- China Launches Second Classified High Orbit Internet Satellite The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 China Launches Second Classified High Orbit Internet Satellite
- Ursa Major Appoints Dan Jablonsky As CEO Amid Expansion Plans The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 Ursa Major Appoints Dan Jablonsky As CEO Amid Expansion Plans
- SES Space & Defense Secures $46.8 Million Contract to Support U.S. Air Force RPA Training The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 SES Space & Defense Secures $46.8 Million Contract to Support U.S. Air Force RPA Training
- CACI International Secures $450 Million Contract to Support Joint Navigation Warfare Center The Launch Pad · 3 Aug 2024 CACI International Secures $450 Million Contract to Support Joint Navigation Warfare Center
- NASA retaining plans to select a single Artemis lunar rover SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service.
- GAO Reports NASA’s Lunar Gateway May Have "Stack Controllability." Issue With Starship The Launch Pad · 2 Aug 2024 GAO Reports NASA’s Lunar Gateway May Have "Stack Controllability." Issue With Starship
- Rocket Lab launches fifth Synspective satellite SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 Rocket Lab launched the fifth radar imaging satellite for Japanese company Synspective Aug. 2, continuing work with its largest commercial customer.
- SpaceX Announces Dragon Recovery Operations Moving To US West Coast The Launch Pad · 2 Aug 2024 SpaceX Announces Dragon Recovery Operations Moving To US West Coast
- NordSpace Announces New Spaceport Canada and $5M Investment The Launch Pad · 2 Aug 2024 NordSpace Announces New Spaceport Canada and $5M Investment
- NASA Johnson Dedicates Dorothy Vaughan Center to Women of Apollo NASA · 2 Aug 2024 On the eve of the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston commemorated the unsung heroes who helped make humanity’s first steps on the Moon possible. To celebrate their endu...
- Poland, Hungary, and India Join Next Axiom Crew Space Scout · 2 Aug 2024 Axiom Space’s fourth mission aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is set to carry astronauts from Poland, Hungary, and India next year, setting the stage for yet another record breaking international segment.
- U.S. Air Force awards $14.9 million contract to Capella Space for radar imaging SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 The multi-year contract is to integrate Capella's radar imaging data into a U.S. Air Force Research Lab experimental cloud-based platform
- KVH Industries leans on maritime connectivity competitor Starlink for growth SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 Maritime connectivity provider KVH Industries is seeing signs of a turnaround after buying a chunk of satellite capacity from Starlink, SpaceX’s broadband constellation in non-geostationary orbit.
- Artemis II Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy NASA · 2 Aug 2024 Teams transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and towing vessels moved the Pegasus barge and 212...
- There Are No Imaginary Boundaries for Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana NASA · 2 Aug 2024 Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana would look up at the sky and marvel at the immensity of space when she was younger. Now, the bounds are limitless as she helps NASA explore the expansive universe by computing the trajectories...
- Celebrating NASA’s Coast Guard Astronauts on Coast Guard Day NASA · 2 Aug 2024 Each Aug. 4, Coast Guard Day commemorates the founding on Aug. 4, 1790, of the U.S. Coast Guard as the Revenue-Marine by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Although considered an internal event for active duty...
- NASA Ames to Host Supercomputing Resources for UC Berkeley Researchers NASA · 2 Aug 2024 Under a new agreement, NASA will host supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The agreement is part of an expanding partne...
- Rocket Lab launches 5th mission for Japanese Earth observation company, Synspective Spaceflight Now · 2 Aug 2024 The Electron rocket carried a StriX satellite to low Earth orbit as part of Synspective’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation. Liftoff happened on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 4:39 a.m. NZT (Friday, Aug. 2, at...
- MESSENGER – From Setbacks to Success NASA · 2 Aug 2024 The excerpts below are taken from Discovery Program oral history interviews conducted in 2009 by Dr. Susan Niebur and tell the story of the hurdles the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ran...
- NASA weighs Boeing vs. SpaceX choice in bringing back Starliner astronauts CNBC · 2 Aug 2024 NASA management has been in deep discussion this week about whether to return the agency’s astronauts on board Boeing’s misfiring Starliner capsule or to go with the alternative of using a SpaceX craft to rescue the crew...
- Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024 ESA · 2 Aug 2024 Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024
- NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale NASA · 2 Aug 2024 NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Colum...
- Umbra ventures into custom satellite manufacturing SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 A provider of synthetic aperture radar imaging services, Umbra is looking to fill demand for ‘complete satellite systems’
- NASA Scientists on Why We Might Not Spot Solar Panel Technosignatures NASA · 2 Aug 2024 One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life — but NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to hel...
- Systems Engineer Douglas Wong NASA · 2 Aug 2024 “When I was around 16 or 17, I came across this book by Arthur C. Clarke called Space Odyssey 2001. That was actually the first science fiction book that I’ve ever read. I was just so captured by what he had written beca...
- Arianespace Announce Sept. 3 Launch Date for Final Vega Flight European Spaceflight · 2 Aug 2024 Launch services provider Arianespace has announced that it expects to conduct the final Vega rocket launch on 3 September from the Guiana Space Centre. The mission will carry the Sentinel 2C Earth observation satellite t...
- Foust Forward: Mind the launch gap SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 At the Farnborough International Airshow six years ago, the United Kingdom made a major push to become a launch country. The U.K. Space Agency endorsed the development of Sutherland Spaceport,
- Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy NASA · 2 Aug 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf elliptical galaxy is part of the Virgo clus...
- NASA to soon resume awards of lunar lander missions SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 NASA plans to soon make its first robotic lunar lander awards in more than a year as the agency and the industry grapple with uncertainty in the overall program linked to the cancellation of a rover mission.
- China launches second secretive high orbit internet satellite SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 PRESTON, United Kingdom — China launched the second of a new series of geostationary communications satellites Thursday, though its purposes remain unclear. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at
- The Exploration Company Confirms Mission Possible Sold Out European Spaceflight · 2 Aug 2024 Hungarian space company Genesis SFL announced on 30 July that it has secured a spot aboard The Exploration Company’s Mission Possible demonstrator. The space transportation services company has shared with European Space...
- Pentagon advisory panel urges integration of commercial space tech for military use SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024 Defense Science Board report: DoD should accelerate adoption of commercial space technologies
- NASA says it is “evaluating all options” for the safe return of Starliner crew Ars Technica · 1 Aug 2024 SpaceX is actively working on a plan to fly Starliner's crew home.
- Scientists Propose Creation Of Lunar "Noah Ark' To Preserve DNA of Earth's Endangered Species and Plants The Launch Pad · 1 Aug 2024 Scientists Propose Creation Of Lunar "Noah Ark' To Preserve DNA of Earth's Endangered Species and Plants
- Space industry considers implications of Harris as presidential candidate SpaceNews · 1 Aug 2024 The sudden ascendance of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president will likely have at least a modest impact on space policy, including a potential choice of her running mate.
- Meet The Crew! NASA SpaceX Crew 10 Announced The Launch Pad · 1 Aug 2024 Meet The Crew! NASA SpaceX Crew 10 Announced
- Astroscale ADRAS-J Successfully Conducts 2 Fly-Around Observations of Space Debris The Launch Pad · 1 Aug 2024 Astroscale ADRAS-J Successfully Conducts 2 Fly-Around Observations of Space Debris