With the Ingenuity helicopter continuing to demonstrate its abilities on Mars, NASA engineers are examining concepts for larger, more capable rotorcraft that could be flown on future missions.
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The U.S. Space Force’s newest Global Positioning System (GPS) III Space Vehicle 05 rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-40 overnight, June 16. The Lockheed Martin-built GPS III SV05 […]
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Power Boost
The team behind NASA’s InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft’s energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The […]
Uncovering the Hidden Arctic
The Arctic. Bitterly cold and crossed by blinding storms. Shrouded in darkness half the year.
Starfish Space testing software for constellation-managing Otter space tugs
Starfish Space, a startup founded by former Blue Origin and NASA engineers, is developing space tugs to help manage rapidly growing megaconstellations.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Seeks Enhancements in Predicting Overhead Geopose
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), and NASA today announced their crowdsourcing competition, the “Overhead Geopose Challenge“, which is being implemented by DrivenData, and HeroX. The Challenge seeks solutions that make overhead images […]
Perseverance’s Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy serving as a communications base station for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and documenting the rotorcraft’s historic flights. But the rover has also been busy […]
SMC’s Launch Enterprise and Space Development Corps’ Space Enterprise Consortium release three Requests for Prototype Proposals
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise, in collaboration with the Space Development Corps’ Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), today released three Requests for Prototype Proposals to industry. SMC intends […]
Firefly Completes Oversubscribed $75M Series A and $100M Secondary Transaction
Firefly Aerospace today announced the successful completion of its Series A financing. The $75 million Series A, which valued the company at greater than $1 billion, was led by DADA Holdings, […]
NASA Celebrates Asian American, Pacific Islander Heritage Month
This May, NASA celebrates the contributions of its Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) employees – past and present – with a variety of internal and external events and products […]