The National Reconnaissance Office’s Office of Space Launch has awarded Cognitive Space, Impulse Space and Starfish Space separate contracts to assess and evaluate advanced space technologies. Awarded under the Broad Agency Announcements
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The Department of Defense has raised the ceiling value of the Proliferated Low Earth Orbit, or PLEO, Satellite-Based Services program, from $900 million to approximately $13 billion in response to the increasing
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NASA is set to relaunch its Mentor-Protégé Program for contractors on Nov. 1 to boost the growth of commercial markets supporting the future of space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. The agency
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NASA has identified nine potential landing regions on the lunar South Pole for the Artemis III capsule that is intended to bring humans to the moon for the first time in over
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The Aerospace Corporation and its Center for Space Policy and Strategy have released Space Agenda 2025, which, according to the publication’s introduction, is meant to provide leaders in government and the space
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NASA has selected 15 projects that will receive $15.6 million in grant funding to maintain open-source tools, frameworks and libraries vital to the NASA science community. The agency said Thursday the awards
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The National Reconnaissance Office launched on Oct. 24 the fourth mission for its proliferated satellite architecture. The mission, dubbed NROL-167, involved the use of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which took off
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A new study has found that the U.S. government’s investments in space exploration are giving the economy a boost by creating jobs and generating tax revenues. NASA said Thursday that, based on
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NASA has begun fielding the central boom structure of a deployable solar array, marking the start of the demonstration of a new power and communications system on the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-4 spacecraft.
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The Defense Innovation Unit announced that it has awarded Alameda, California-based company Astra the third contract under its Novel Responsive Space Delivery, or NRSD, project to prototype commercial solutions for space cargo
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