NASA has appointed Denton Gibson as launch director of the Kennedy Space Center Launch Services Program, which he has been a part of since 2004. Gibson, who previously served as senior mission
More
NASA intends to launch Lunar Node 1 in early 2024 as part of an effort to establish a capability that would enable Global Positioning System-like navigation near and around the moon. LN-1,
More
Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer of the U.S. Space Force, said the service branch is developing standards for digital twins in addition to its work on a new digital modeling
More
The NOAA-21 satellite is now operational, joining the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite and NOAA-20 as part of the Joint Polar Satellite System. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that
More
NASA’s Stennis Space Center has unveiled a strategic plan outlining its goals and objectives in key mission areas for the next five years as it seeks to accelerate its space exploration and
More
NASA is soliciting information from organizations that can participate in the development of its Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies demonstration. The agency on Monday issued a request for information to advance its plan
More
The Space Development Agency has started soliciting information from industry on optical communications waveforms and current work with other agencies within the Department of Defense on waveforms and datalinks. SDA said Monday
More
NASA technicians have completed a portion of the fifth weld confidence article to be installed on the Space Launch System rocket. The weld confidence article was built at the Michoud Assembly Facility
More
Reps. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Brian Babin, R-Texas have introduced legislation to modernize government oversight of the commercial space sector to ensure U.S. leadership in space activities. The Commercial Space Act of
More
The Senate has passed bipartisan bills aimed at establishing U.S. leadership in the space domain by fostering commercial space innovation and reducing space junk in orbit. “We can’t let space junk and
More