MagniX engineers conducted a series of altitude tests for a battery-powered engine to demonstrate its capabilities to potentially support hybrid electric flight in the future. The company used an altitude chamber at
MoreNASA has selected three proposals for the Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, or DYNAMIC, mission, to conduct studies of the space weather system and its connection to Earth’s atmosphere. Teams led by the
MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will receive space vehicle launch and reentry flight data from Virgin Galactic and Sierra Space through the Space Data Integrator platform. FAA said Friday SDI
MoreThe NASA Office of Inspector General has revealed in a new report that the agency has made progress in its Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative but numerous challenges remain, which
MoreU.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Heath Collins, director of the Missile Defense Agency and a 2024 Wash100 Award recipient, shared that the two Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor-equipped satellites will be
MoreNASA has deployed the second Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, or PREFIRE, small satellite into space to study the impact of warming climate on Earth’s ice, seas and weather. The
MoreNASA has selected proposals from BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and lay the groundwork for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission
MoreThe Space Development Agency has posted a solicitation for an acquisition program that seeks to establish a pool of nontraditional defense contractors that will compete for prototype orders to perform future flight
MoreNASA has made air quality data available through its Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument, a.k.a. TEMPO, a space-based spectrometer that collects information on air pollutants across North America. The agency said
MoreNASA’s four CubeSat spacecraft for the Starling mission have met all their key objectives, marking a successful demonstration of autonomous swarm operations in low-Earth orbit. Over a ten-month period, the swarm of
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