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NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7. The payloads launched aboard the Space Test Program Satellite-6 on...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 5:06 a.m. EST for launch of the 24th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft will lift off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch...

NASA’s primary science objective in astrophysics is to “discover how the universe works.” The X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer Mission (IXPE) furthers that objective as the first mission dedicated to observing polarized X-rays, revealing previously hidden details of the universe.  IXPE is a Small Explorer mission that is part...

CAES, a leader in advanced mission-critical electronics for aerospace and defense, has announced that its radiation-hardened microelectronics is onboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 24. The goal of...

It was a great pleasure for our SpaceQuip Journal team to take part to the virtual press conference organized by NASA and DLR on Antarctica Plant Research: NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek, introduced us to this successful test run...

The space telescope provided with three important instruments produced in Italy was launched at dawn. He will accomplish studies based on polarimetry in X-rays. A lot of Italian science is on board the IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) satellite, which...

At Masten, we expect lunar landings to become commonplace by 2030, and we’ll play a big role in enabling that future. Ideally, each landing will be more efficient and streamlined than the last. So how do we achieve that?...

Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video of rotorcraft performing to near-perfection. Video footage from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 13th flight on Sept....

Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) the leader in providing low gravity technologies enabling humanity to work, play and thrive in the space ecosystem was pleased to have been received positive feedback in NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLD) which announced funded providers yesterday. The CLD...

The deep space journey of the Italian Space Agency’s satellite has started. The satellite was developed and manufactured by Argotec, which will be tasked with acting as a photojournalist for the American probe DART, which will in about a...