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Astrobotic has been selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Sequential Phase II program to develop, test, and fly lunar night survival and communication technologies onboard its CubeRover platform. The effort will culminate in a commercial flight to the...

Toray, a company in innovative technologies and advanced high-performance materials, is among the shortlist of composite material suppliers who are members of the Advanced Composites Consortium (ACC) and are supporting NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The ACC is...

Aegis Aerospace provides commercial, turn-key space services, spaceflight product development, and engineering services for the civil and commercial space and defense industries. Aegis Aerospace develops, integrates, and operates lunar surface systems, 100kg-class satellites, attached ISS payloads and commercial vehicle...

The 10 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor segments that will help launch the Artemis III crew on their mission to land on the Moon are complete. Teams finished manufacturing the segments for the mission on May 18, 2022. Each of the twin...

Aegis Aerospace provides commercial, turn-key space services, spaceflight product development, and engineering services for the civil and commercial space and defense industries. Aegis Aerospace develops, integrates, and operates lunar surface systems, 100kg-class satellites, attached ISS payloads and commercial vehicle...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on...

In 2022, NASA’s Artemis I mission will send a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew to the Moon for the first time in almost 50 years. On this uncrewed test flight, it will be the twin measuring mannequins...

Following a successful October launch, NASA rewards SpaceWorks with an encore in May 2022 ATLANTA, April 21, 2022 – On the heels of SpaceWorks' successful Suborbital Test Vehicle (STV-2) mission last October 2021 in Madras, Oregon, NASA awarded the company...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday, April 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch carries three NASA astronauts – Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins – and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. This spaceflight is...

Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscape there and if it is...