Tag: spacecraft

Beijing (XNA) Sep 04, 2023
China has published artist's renderings of the country's lunar landing module and its next-generation crew spacecraft, both of which will be central to the nation's grand goal of sending astronauts to the moon. According to the renderings and their descriptions published by the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday, the lunar landing module will have two parts - a landing section and a pro

Beijing (XNA) Jul 21, 2023
China is currently developing a new carrier rocket and manned spacecraft as part of its goal to land astronauts on the moon by 2030, the country's space experts said. The new carrier rocket Long March-10 is mainly developed for the purpose of sending spacecraft and moon lander into the Earth-moon transfer orbit, said Rong Yi, a rocket expert with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technol

Millennium Space Systems has successfully completed a program design review (PDR) for a missile tracking satellite for the U.S. Space Force, according to an announcement made by the company on Wednesday. The PDR was completed in just four months,...

Revolv Space is a startup currently incubated at ESA BIC Noordwijk and working towards the goal of maximising mission return for small satellite constellations. The aerospace engineers who founded Revolv have developed an autonomous and fail-safe solar array drive...

AIKO specialises in Artificial Intelligence and Automation technologies for space applications. The company delivers state-of-the-art solutions for flight and ground mission segments with the goal of enabling autonomous space missions. The Space industry is shifting from automatic to autonomous Space missions...

Astroscale and Momentus have joined forces to propose a mission to reboost the Hubble Telescope to NASA. The mission would use a Momentus Vigoride orbital service vehicle (OSV) with Astroscale’s RPOD technology built in. Astroscale’s RPOD technology would approach...

Loft Federal, the government subsidiary of Loft Orbital, has ordered Mynaric laser terminals for its work on the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Experimental Testbed. Mynaric will supply the CONDOR Mk3 terminals, with deliveries scheduled for the first half of...

Northrop Grumman has completed the critical design review for its spacecraft for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), paving the way for production to begin. The company won a contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to provide satellites...

Boeing has unveiled an anti-jam payload that has been integrated into a US Space Force satellite communications spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in 2024. The Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) payload provides jammer geolocation, real-time adaptive nulling, frequency...

Ball Aerospace has announced that it is partnering with Loft Federal and Microsoft to work on its Space Development Agency (SDA) contract for the experimental testbed NExT. The contract, worth up to $176m, was awarded to Ball Aerospace in...