Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida’s 10th congressional district and Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia’s eighth congressional district have proposed legislation that would require manufacturers seeking to build spacecraft for NASA to
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Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed manufacturing the modernized version of the super-heavy-lift rocket engines that power NASA’s Space Launch System, also known as SLS. The L3Harris Technologies subsidiary said Monday it has enhanced four RS-25
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NASA’s Stennis Space Center has launched an autonomous systems payload aboard Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1, or LS-1, small satellite. Carried into space on the SpaceX Transporter 10 rideshare mission, the Autonomous Satellite Technology for
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The U.S. Space Force has started the commit phase of a readiness model designed to deliver optimized, tailored mission readiness to service-assigned and combatant command missions to help meet the demands of
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NASA has published two white papers addressing considerations for the Moon to Mars architecture, an initiative that seeks to articulate the elements necessary for long-term, human-led deep space exploration. The first, titled “Lunar Mobility
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A new National Reconnaissance Office mission for its proliferated architecture of satellites lifted off Friday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from a launch complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The agency
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NASA has sent to space the last satellite to complete the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, constellation. The space agency said Tuesday the satellite was launched
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has published a collection of technical standards related to space traffic coordination and space situational awareness. OSC said Tuesday the Space Industry
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Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said SPACECOM is setting up a pilot project that seeks to demonstrate how data can be fused to provide
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Research teams at NASA tested next-generation space technologies during a series of parabolic flights aboard Zero Gravity‘s G-FORCE ONE aircraft between February and April, enabling them to interact with their hardware in
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