AstroForge Picks Up First Commercial Deep Space License
The license was “our last gate to fly.”
Stories about missions throughout solar system and beyond.
The license was “our last gate to fly.”
“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”
JPL launched a Tiger Team to assess if the $5B spacecraft could survive its Jovian voyage as-is.
“We’re going to mine asteroids or go f*****g bankrupt.”
NASA and CSA joined together to address this problem with The Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition that’s tapped industry to put forward novel ideas and new technologies to keep astronauts fed on extended journeys to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) launched its Spaceline 3D mission visualization software to help mission operators plan and optimize their flight paths.
With just seven months to launch, the LA-based asteroid mining company decided to toss out its mission 2 vehicle, named Odin, and build a new bus in house mostly from scratch.
“I know what I would prefer [to do], but Congress will tell us to wait,”
ispace is taking another stab at a lunar landing.
Deep space exploration isn’t just for governments anymore.
A small piece of the asteroid Bennu can now call a very ritzy neighborhood home, alongside many meteorites and just next door to the Hope Diamond.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, hurtling through space in the outer solar system, just got a new lease on life. The agency announced Friday that it will be extending the mission until the late 2020s. “The New Horizons mission has a unique position in our solar system to answer important questions about our heliosphere and provide […]