Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, said the SDA will start a monthly launch campaign in September 2024 to deploy the first tranche of data-transport satellites to orbit, SpaceNews reported
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Small businesses and startups are invited to join the 13th cohort The Catalyst Accelerator is hosting to determine how the U.S. Space Force might introduce commercial capabilities to its mission environment for
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John Dankanich, in-space transportation system capability lead at NASA, spoke about contracting approaches used with various vendors to support development work on cryogenic fluid management systems and how such mechanisms hinder the
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On Nov. 15, the Office of the Secretary of Defense Business Board released findings of its investigation into the effectiveness of a unity of effort in the U.S. government’s space acquisition decision-making.
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NASA has installed the frangible joint assembly onto the launch vehicle stage adapter of the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket to be used for the Artemis III lunar mission. The frangible
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NASA’s heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is now ready to transition to the assembly, testing and integration phase from the development and design stage, following the completion
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A team from the University of Texas at El Paso has received a grant from the U.S. Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research to study Unresolved Resident Space Objects, or USROs. Under the
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Space Systems Command is preparing for the seventh launch of the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the National Security Space Launch program. The mission,
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NASA subjected the RS-25 rocket engine to a hot fire test on Nov. 29. The test was the third in a 12-part series meant to certify new manufacturing processes used by L3Harris
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has deployed a cloud-based ground system-as-a-service, or GSaaS, capability to operate three of its weather and climate prediction satellites. The GSaaS platform, which was developed by
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