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- Announcing the launch of Starris: Optimax Space Systems, lifting precision optical payloads from idea to orbit in one year SpaceNews · 29 Jul 2024 Agile, space-qualified optical payloads enable customers to enter booming space economy quickly with low risk. Ontario, N.Y. — The commercialization of space is creating unprecedented opportunities for the space economy.
- ULA launches Atlas 5 rocket on the company’s 100th national security mission Spaceflight Now · 29 Jul 2024 The United States Space Force 51 (USSF-51) mission was the 58th and final time an Atlas 5 rocket launches a national security payload. Liftoff happened at Tuesday, July 30, during a three-hour window that opens at 6:45 a...
- Sierra Space Successfully Bursts Second Full Scale Inflatable Module The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 Sierra Space Successfully Bursts Second Full Scale Inflatable Module
- Morpheus Space Expands Electric Propulsion Production with New Dresden Factory The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 Morpheus Space Expands Electric Propulsion Production with New Dresden Factory
- NASA to Highlight 13th Space Station Research, Development Conference NASA · 29 Jul 2024 NASA will broadcast groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development in orbit from the 13th annual International...
- Sols 4257-4258: A Little Nudge on Kings Canyon NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, July 26, 2024 Today’s 2-sol weekend plan is our first taste of a new location for a potential sampling campaign. We call today’s plan type: Drill Sol 1 – triage contact science. We arrived th...
- Astranis Secures $200 Million For Omega Program and Next-Gen Broadband Spacecraft The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 Astranis Secures $200 Million For Omega Program and Next-Gen Broadband Spacecraft
- Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Happy Wednesday, terrestrials! We wrapped up our Mammoth Lakes drill campaign only three weeks ago and are already looking for our next drill site. This will be the last dril...
- British financial advisor Citicourt & Co plots space venture capital fund SpaceNews · 29 Jul 2024 TAMPA, Fla. — British financial advisor Citicourt & Co is looking to raise 100 million pounds ($129 million) in its first venture capital fund to invest in sustainability-focused space opportunities.
- 60 Years Ago: Ranger 7 Photographs the Moon NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Long before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the Moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, some...
- Atlas V successfully launched its last ever national security mission NASASpaceflight · 29 Jul 2024 United Launch Alliance, formed in 2006 to merge the Boeing and Lockheed Martin launch vehicle programs, has flown 100 national security missions over the last 18 years using the Delta II, Delta IV, and Atlas V rocket fam...
- U.S. Space Force Awards Akima A $480 Million Contract to Modernize Satellite Control Network The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 U.S. Space Force Awards Akima A $480 Million Contract to Modernize Satellite Control Network
- Retired U.S. Marine Angel Smith Appointed Executive Director of SmallSat Alliance The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 Retired U.S. Marine Angel Smith Appointed Executive Director of SmallSat Alliance
- Visit with NASA SCaN NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Interested in having a NASA SCaN expert speak to your class or group? The SCaN program is accepting requests for visits (both virtual and in-person) during the coming calendar year. Request a virtual visit below. Request...
- New Frontier Aerospace Tests Mjölnir Engine for High-Speed Hypersonic Travel The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 New Frontier Aerospace Tests Mjölnir Engine for High-Speed Hypersonic Travel
- PLACES team publishes blog post on NextGenScience Blog NASA · 29 Jul 2024 The NASA Science Activation program’s PLACES (Broadening Data Fluency Through the Integration of NASA Assets and Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship) team – which focuses on supporting...
- Peekaboo! NASA · 29 Jul 2024 In this image from May 4, 2017, a rabbit is nearly obscured by grass at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares a border with the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, which is home to over 31 mammal species and...
- Although it’s not final, SpaceX just got good news from the FAA on Starbase Ars Technica · 29 Jul 2024 "SpaceX has dramatically reduced the duration of operations."
- SpaceX returns to form with back-to-back successful Starlink launches Teslarati · 29 Jul 2024 SpaceX has returned to its usual form after it completed two successful back-to-back Starlink launches this past weekend. The company regained its...
- NASA Offers Virtual Activities for 21st Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission NASA · 29 Jul 2024 NASA invites the public to participate in virtual activities ahead of the launch of Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply services mission for the agency. Mission teams are targeting 11:28 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 3...
- Photographers Scrub Launch Coverage Due To New ULA Policy That Restricts Use of Launch Photo The Launch Pad · 29 Jul 2024 Photographers Scrub Launch Coverage Due To New ULA Policy That Restricts Use of Launch Photo
- NASA Data Shows July 22 Was Earth’s Hottest Day on Record NASA · 29 Jul 2024 July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record, according to a NASA analysis of global daily temperature data. July 21 and 23 of this year also exceeded the previous daily record, set in July 2023. These record-breaking te...
- Juice returns for a lunar-Earth flyby ESA · 29 Jul 2024 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is coming back to Earth.
- CFT Continues Safely: Starliner and the Commercial Crew Return Process Space Scout · 29 Jul 2024 Boeing’s Crew Flight Test mission is continuing its stay aboard the International Space Station. On July 25, NASA and Boeing held a press conference to provide an update on the mission including ongoing tests, the curren...
- Managing Heat NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Science in Space: July 2024 This time of year, managing heat is on everyone’s mind. Especially now, as May 2024 marked a full year of record-high monthly temperatures – an unprecedented streak, according to scientists fr...
- NASA, JAXA Bounce Laser Beam Between Moon’s Surface and Lunar Orbit NASA · 29 Jul 2024 NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has twice transmitted a laser pulse to a cookie-sized retroreflector aboard JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) SLIM lander on the Moon and received a return signal. As L...
- MT Aerospace Begins Testing Themis Landing Leg European Spaceflight · 29 Jul 2024 German aerospace manufacturing company MT Aerospace has begun testing a demonstrator of the landing legs that will be utilized aboard the Themis reusable booster demonstrator. MT Aerospace is developing the Themis landin...
- A new kind of space politics SpaceNews · 29 Jul 2024 On July 16 2024, Elon Musk shouted from the proverbial rooftops that he will move SpaceX out of California to Boca Chica, Texas. By his own admission, he is not
- Earth to Gateway: Electric Field Tests Enhance Lunar Communication NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Learn how engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center are using electric field testing to optimize communications for the Gateway space station that will support Artemis exploration of the Moon.
- ESA blasts off at Gamescom ESA · 29 Jul 2024 Calling all space dreamers and game developers! ESA is back at Gamescom, the world's biggest video game event, kicking off in Cologne from 21 to 25 August. Our stand is in the careers area of Koelnmesse in Hall 10.2, so...
- ULA prepares for final military launch of Atlas 5 rocket SpaceNews · 29 Jul 2024 USSF-51 will be the last national security launch for the Atlas 5 as ULA prepares to complete Vulcan’s certification for Space Force missions
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 28-August 3, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 28 Jul 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 28-August 3, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this
- Senate spending bill pushes back on proposed NASA mission cuts SpaceNews · 28 Jul 2024 A Senate appropriations bill closely follows the administration’s request for NASA in fiscal year 2025 but with provisions about several missions the agency is seeking to cancel or curtail.
- SpaceX to move Dragon splashdowns back to West Coast SpaceNews · 28 Jul 2024 SpaceX will move Dragon spacecraft splashdowns from off the coast of Florida to the West Coast starting in 2025, a move the company says is intended to reduce risks from reentering debris from the spacecraft’s trunk sect...
- SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Spaceflight Now · 28 Jul 2024 The mission will complete a back-to-back schedule for SpaceX on Sunday morning. Liftoff from SLC-4E happened at 2:22 a.m. PDT (5:22 a.m. EDT, 0922 UTC).
- SpaceX completes 300th booster reflight during first of planned back-to-back Falcon 9 launches Spaceflight Now · 28 Jul 2024 The overnight launch marked the second Falcon 9 flight since the July 11 mishap that grounded the rocket. Liftoff happened at 1:09 a.m. EDT (0509 UTC).
- Falcon 9 Returns to Flight in Record Time SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Jul 2024 SpaceX’s launch of another set of Starlink satellites early this morning would be just another routine event except that it took place only two weeks after a Falcon 9 rocket
- ULA prepares for final Atlas 5 launch supporting a national security payload Spaceflight Now · 27 Jul 2024 The mission will mark the 100th national security flight for United Launch Alliance and the 101st Atlas 5 rocket launch. Liftoff is targeting Tuesday, July 30, during a three-hour window that opens at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045...
- Falcon 9 returns to flight with Starlink launch SpaceNews · 27 Jul 2024 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched a set of Starlink satellites early July 27 on the first flight of the vehicle since an upper stage anomaly 15 days earlier.
- SpaceX roars back to orbit barely two weeks after in-flight anomaly Ars Technica · 27 Jul 2024 "It was incredible to see how quickly the team was able to identify the cause of the mishap."