Intuitive Machines Picked for Fourth Lunar Mission
NASA will pay Intuitive Machines $116.9M to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar South Pole.
Sustainable Space Exploration: Lockheed Martin’s Vision for a Water-Based Lunar Architecture
Science fiction is becoming reality. NASA’s Artemis program will take humanity back to the Moon, but this time the goals extend far beyond flags and footprints. With the first space station in lunar orbit and a base camp supporting exploration at the Moon’s South Pole, Artemis “will usher in a future in which humans consistently…
Europa Clipper’s Chips Are Good Enough For Jupiter
JPL launched a Tiger Team to assess if the $5B spacecraft could survive its Jovian voyage as-is.
Falcon 9 Grounded After Booster Landing Failure
Just one month after returning to flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after a booster failed to land safely early Wednesday morning.
Rise and Stall of GPS: The Average Age of GPS Satellites Hits 13 Years
The Global Positioning System has long been one of the most important and widely-used services in the world but the US navigational network is showing signs of aging, slipping into a pattern of maintaining the status quo rather than driving innovation.
NASA OIG Uncovers More Cost, Schedule Overruns for ML-2
What was originally a $383M contract to be finished by 2023 has ballooned into potentially $2.7B construction that won’t see completion until 2029.
USSF Funds Impulse’s Massive High Orbit Kick Stage
Under the new STRATFI agreement, the first payload on Helios will be a DoD spacecraft.
The Road to the Forum: Humans in LEO
The ISS has been a bastion for international cooperation and scientific discovery for nearly three decades, but as the orbiting habitat nears the end of its time in service, NASA is preparing to pass the torch on these three pillars to the commercial sector.
Loft Orbital Harnesses Desert Power with UAE Sat Venture
The new company will make the nation’s biggest foray into commercial space yet, with plans to ramp production to 50 500-kg satellites per year. Orbitworks plans to secure a facility and have its first satellite in the facility ready to integrate payloads as early as 2025.
How Nokia and Axiom Are Putting 4G on The Moon
Nokia has designed a “network in a box” that it will test on Intuitive Machine’s next uncrewed lunar mission.
NASA Finally Chooses Dragon for Starliner Crew Return
NASA officials decided that the two astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner on a test flight to the ISS will return on a SpaceX crew Dragon. Their eight-day mission will wind up lasting eight months.
SpaceX’s Most Ambitious Crew Mission Yet Takes Off Overnight
The five-day mission will be the most technically challenging private crewed mission in space, and the first time SpaceX employees have flown to orbit on their own vehicle.
