NASA, SpaceX launch final weather satellite for NOAA
NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at 5:26 p.m. EDT Tuesday. The GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) will benefit the nation by providing continuous coverage of weather and hazardous environmental conditions across much of the Western Hemisphere. The satellite launched […]
NASA awards Astrolab a Contract worth USD 1.9Bln
Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) announced that NASA has awarded the company, together with its teammates Axiom Space, Inc., and Odyssey Space Research, a contract to advance the development of the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) which will help Artemis astronauts explore more of the Moon’s surface on future missions. The Astrolab team is one of three […]
Rocket Lab successfully launches first batch of TROPICS Satellites for NASA
Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a leading launch and space systems company, yesterday successfully completed the first of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of tropical cyclone monitoring satellites for NASA. The ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ launch lifted-off on May 8 at 13:00 NZST (01:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New […]
World View, a space tourism company onboards Space Flight Safety Experts From NASA, VIRGIN GALACTIC And BLUE ORIGIN
World view, a Arizona based and one of the leading stratospheric exploration and space tourism company, is said to have hired three new industry experts to establish and lead a new safety program that includes the company’s testing and safety protocols ahead of human space flights starting in 2024. The new personnel will build on […]
Nuno Taborda to Donne the role of CEO of magniX
magniX recently named Nuno Taborda as Chief Executive Officer. Taborda is an accomplished aerospace executive with two decades of experience driving business performance and delivering pioneering technology programs from proof-of-concept, through certification, entry-into-service, and scaled production. According to magniX sources, Taborda joins magniX on June 1from the Rolls-Royce Plc with in excess of 20 years […]
NASA Selects Teams To Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agency’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earth’s upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigations that will be under consideration for inclusion in the mission. GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the […]
NASA elects Blue Canyon Technologies for creating SBs for HelioSwarm Mission
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC or “BCT” or “Blue Canyon”, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, was selected to manufacture eight X-SAT Venus ESPA-class microsatellite buses for NASA’s HelioSwarm science mission. According to the sources from Blue Canyon Technologies, the purpose of the mission will be to study solar […]
Clay Mowry announced as CRO by the Voyager Space
Voyager Space, a global leader in space exploration, recently announced appointing former Blue Origin VP, Clay Mowry as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Mowry is a space industry veteran and also a seasoned business strategist and as the firm’s CRO, Mowry will be powering out the revenue and sales operations for the firm and its […]
NASA Selects ACT For Its First Resource-Mapping mission
NASA has awarded Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) a $3.7 million contract to finalize the design and fabricate the flight thermal control system for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. VIPER, an important part of the Artemis program, is a golf cart-sized rover that will roam several miles across the South Pole of the Moon […]
