Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, highlighted the importance of operating from a common playbook to combine diverse capabilities and achieve a warfighting advantage, USSPACECOM
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has completed the integration of the telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, completing the Roman payload. Roman Space Telescope Payload Integration Process The agency
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NASA will resume its annual long-duration balloon operation in Antarctica by launching two flights in mid-December for planned nine missions to near space. The Antarctic campaign’s balloon flights will lift off from
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The U.S. Space Force and its Japanese partners celebrated on Nov. 18 the integration of a U.S. payload with the first of two Japanese host satellites that will launch from Japan’s Tanegashima
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NASA has awarded the Southwest Research Institute a $26.1 million contract to build two two magnetometer instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s space weather program. Work under the 10-year agreement
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NASA is set to evaluate advancements to a tool designed to measure shock waves made by the X-59 quiet supersonic transport, or Quesst, during supersonic flight. The agency said Thursday the new technology,
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The space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the National Reconnaissance Office continue to grow with the launch of its NROL-126 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Friday. The mission,
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Texas A&M University has officially commenced construction of an upcoming research facility that would support innovation in human spaceflight. NASA said Tuesday that leaders from Texas A&M broke ground for the Texas
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NASA’s industry partners under the second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities initiative have made progress in developing technologies to advance future low Earth orbit space missions. Space Exploration and In-Orbit Transportation Northrop
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The Air Force Research Laboratory has launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment with the SpaceX CRS-31 spacecraft to test the performance of variable emissivity materials,
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