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- SpaceX Dragon splashdowns get new destination Teslarati · 31 Jul 2024 SpaceX Dragon splashdowns will no longer take place off the coast of Florida, as the company confirmed it would begin move the...
- Affordable Access to Space NASA · 31 Jul 2024 The Affordable Access To Space (AATS) project is a set of agreements to enable NASA missions with affordable, dedicated access to space
- 2024 Invention of the Year Winner – Thrust Chamber Liner and Fabrication Method NASA · 31 Jul 2024 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: A thrust chamber assembly (TCA) is the critical and central component in a rocket engine that provides thrust to propel a launch vehicle into space. Since the 1960s, while small improve...
- Ranger 7 Snaps the Moon NASA · 31 Jul 2024 On July 31, 1964, the Ranger 7 spacecraft took this photo, the first image of the Moon taken by a United States spacecraft. 17 minutes later, it crashed into the Moon on the northern rim of the Sea of Clouds as intended....
- Tech Today: Remote Sensing Technology Fights Forest Fires NASA · 31 Jul 2024 Enabled by NASA Sensors and Technical Assistance
- CACI secures $450 million contract to support U.S. Space Command’s navigation warfare center SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 The Joint Navigation Warfare Center serves as the Department of Defense's center of excellence for navigation warfare
- Honoring the Best in Space: 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Open SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 Call for Nominations: 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards July 31, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that the nomination process for the 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards is now open! Established
- Falcon 9 Completes RTF, Resumes Cadence Space Scout · 31 Jul 2024 On July 27, 2024 at 1:45 AM EDT, Falcon 9 returned to flight following its stand down on July 11, returning the workhorse of American rocketry to service. Carrying the Starlink 10-9 group, the mission is a return to form...
- Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science ESA · 31 Jul 2024 As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target bodies have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents s...
- What’s Up: August 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 31 Jul 2024 Two planets meet for a super close conjunction, the Perseid meteor shower peaks, and look for the Lagoon Nebula – a stellar nursery in Sagittarius.
- NASA Public Engagement Specialist Loves to Inspire Kids with STEM NASA · 31 Jul 2024 Careers at NASA were not on his radar growing up. But Jonas Dino, public engagement specialist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, ended up with his perfect job that involves connecting people...
- China’s Space Pioneer pushes towards launch despite static-fire debacle SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Space Pioneer appears to be moving towards a first launch of its Tianlong-3 rocket despite a disastrous static-fire test in June. Space Pioneer suffered
- After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers Ars Technica · 31 Jul 2024 "I'm just shocked they don't want more coverage of these things and not less."
- Growing pains for smallsat propulsion SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 Astra Space seemed poised to dominate the smallsat propulsion landscape. Its 2021 acquisition of Apollo Fusion positioned the Northern California company as a favored partner among prime contractors building satellites
- NASA’s First-Ever Quantum Memory Made at Glenn Research Center NASA · 31 Jul 2024 Bringing bright minds together has once again proven to be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Researchers developed technology that will store information within a cloud of atoms. Together with Infleqtio...
- Study finds space industry growth uncorrelated to larger markets SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 The space industry is largely insulated from the variations in other parts of the economy, a new analysis found, which could make it attractive to investors seeking to diversify their portfolios.
- DLR Laser Clock Loses Just One Second Every 30M Years European Spaceflight · 31 Jul 2024 A laser clock developed by the German space agency DLR has achieved a record-setting level of accuracy for optical clocks, with a deviation of just one second every 30 million years. The DLR laser clock project is part o...
- GHGSat gains NASA approval for methane-emissions data SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 LAS VEGAS – Methane-emissions data from GHGSat will be shared for scientific research through NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. Montreal-based GHGSat announced July 31 that the company’s data “successf...
- Ariane 6: post-launch update ESA · 31 Jul 2024
- Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return (MSR) have offered glimpses of their work that range from tweaking one component to overhauling the entire architecture.
- SES wins $46 million U.S. Air Force contract for satellite services SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024 The multi-year agreement is for geostationary satellite communications services for the Air Force’s remotely piloted aircraft training and testing program
- Satellite issues deliver mixed bag for Yahsat earnings SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 While an anomaly on an old Boeing-built satellite dented revenues at Yahsat, the Emirati operator’s profit was lifted by compensation from Airbus after its next-generation mobile connectivity spacecraft was caught up in...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch NASA · 30 Jul 2024 NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 11:28 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 2...
- Overview for NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st Commercial Resupply Mission NASA · 30 Jul 2024 NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:28 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. F...
- Repair Kit for NASA’s NICER Mission Heading to Space Station NASA · 30 Jul 2024 NASA will deliver a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, on the agency’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission. Astronauts w...
- Launch Roundup: Atlas V, Electron, CZ-3B/E, and Falcon 9 missions flying this week NASASpaceflight · 30 Jul 2024 As July turns into August, launch activity will pick up after Falcon 9’s return to flight. Besides the Falcon 9, ULA’s Atlas V and Rocket Lab’s Electron were also being prepared to fly missions to orbit. The USSF-51 flig...
- Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month, July 2024 NASA · 30 Jul 2024 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Ryan T. Scott, Mike Kubo, Ehsan (Sam) Gharib-Nezhad, and Kristen Okorn. Their commitment to the NASA mission represen...
- Sols 4259-4260: Kings Canyon Go Again! NASA · 30 Jul 2024 Earth planning date: Monday, July 29, 2024 Our weekend drill preload test on the target “Kings Canyon” (shown in the accompanying MAHLI image) didn’t give us the full range of data we need to move forward with the full d...
- United Launch Alliance and SpaceX get $1.8 billion boost in Space Force contracts SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 The increase is due to a surge in demand for launches under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program
- GLOBE Alumna and Youth for Habitat Program Lead Named Scientist of the Month in Alaska NASA · 30 Jul 2024 As a 16-year old high school graduate, Maggie House decided to leave the military base in Germany where she lived with her family and go to college close to nature in Fairbanks, Alaska. She had lived in many countries an...
- Chinese scientists outline major cislunar space infrastructure project SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 PRESTON, United Kingdom — Chinese scientists are proposing cislunar space infrastructure to support lunar exploration, enhance the nation’s space industry and promote international collaboration. The proposed infrastruct...
- NASA’s DART Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid System NASA · 30 Jul 2024 In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, the mission’s science team has discove...
- Defying the heat SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 Space agencies are advancing inflatable heat shields they see as not only key for future missions to Mars, but also for unlocking fully reusable rockets and larger cargo deliveries back
- Land of the rising space startups SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 Since April, a small Japanese spacecraft has been loitering in the vicinity of an abandoned upper stage from an H-2A rocket in low Earth orbit. The Active Debris Removal by
- POLARIS Spaceplanes Takes Delivery of MIRA II and III Airframes European Spaceflight · 30 Jul 2024 Bremen-based startup POLARIS Spaceplanes has taken delivery of a pair of airframe structures for its MIRA II and MIRA III spaceplane demonstrators. MIRA II and III will be identical five-metre-long spaceplane demonstrato...
- NASA proceeding with August launch of Crew-9 SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 NASA is pressing ahead with a mid-August launch of the next Crew Dragon mission while delaying the first operational flight of Starliner.
- ULA’s Atlas 5 launches its final national security mission SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 The rocket lifted off July 30 at 6:45 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
- Rolls-Royce Submarines to Develop Nuclear Reactors for UK Space Agency European Spaceflight · 30 Jul 2024 Rolls-Royce Submarines has received £4.8 million in additional UK Space Agency funding to develop a Space Micro-Reactor demonstrator. The funding was announced as part of £33 million in UK Space Agency (UKSA) awards, sup...
- NISAR launch slips to 2025 SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024 The launch of a joint U.S.-Indian radar imaging satellite will not take place before February 2025 because of work on the spacecraft’s antenna and orbital constraints, NASA said July 29.
- Starliner Passes In-Orbit Tests, But First Operational Launch Slips SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Jul 2024 Boeing and NASA put the Starliner spacecraft through its paces this weekend, successfully testing the thrusters and confirming the helium leaks are stable. But in a nod to the amount