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Blue Origin's NS-26 launch set for August 29 with six crew members
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
The NS-26 mission will be crewed by six passengers: Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen, and Ephraim Rabin. Among the cre...
Lessons from Amazon and FedEx can inform satellite and spacecraft management
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
But today, space industry organizations are exploring missions with many satellites working together. For example, SpaceX's Starlink constellations include thou...
Relationships with Space Colonists
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
The relationship between on-Earth societies and colonists would likely be complicated. Several factors would shape this relationship, including the very differe...
SpaceX will bring stranded Boeing Starliner crew home in February
Aug 24, 2024 (UPI)
In weighing whether to allow them to try to return to Earth aboard their malfunctioning Starliner craft or wait until the completion of the upcoming SpaceX Crew...
Boeing's rescue by rival SpaceX 'embarrassing' and ill-timed
Aug 24, 2024 (AFP)
The legacy company needing aid from an upstart rival is hardly welcome news to the aerospace giant. Because of problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, two ...
Milky Way navigation in dung beetles inspires advanced drone and satellite systems
Aug 22, 2024 (SPX)
The dung beetle, known for its unique ability to steer using the stars, was identified in 2013 as the first species to utilize the Milky Way for nocturnal navig...
SpaceX a week away from first private spacewalk
Aug 20, 2024 (AFP)
The five-day expedition, named Polaris Dawn, will be led by US billionaire Jared Isaacman, who already chartered the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight in 2...
NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Teams Innovating Space Food Production
Aug 20, 2024 (SPX)
These innovative food production systems aim to support the sustainability of food supplies for future space exploration, including NASA's Artemis missions and ...
Neuraspace Enhances Space Traffic Management Through EISCAT Partnership
Aug 16, 2024 (SPX)
This collaboration grants Neuraspace access to EISCAT's radar observation capabilities, which are crucial for monitoring space objects. Additionally, Neuraspace...
North Korea tour operators hopeful ahead of country's reopening
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
A day earlier, Koryo Tours said they had received notice from isolated North Korea that tourism to the northeastern city of Samjiyon will resume in December aft...
Engineers conduct first in-orbit test of swarm satellite autonomous navigation
Aug 15, 2024 (SPX)
"It's a milestone paper and the culmination of 11 years of effort by my lab, which was founded with this goal of surpassing the current state of the art and pra...
JUICE probe to perform critical Lunar-Earth flyby
Aug 15, 2024 (SPX)
Throughout these flybys, several scientific instruments will be activated to test and calibrate their functions, possibly even capturing significant data. Notab...
NASA Opens Submissions for 2025 Human Lander Challenge Targeting Cryogenic Solutions
Aug 14, 2024 (SPX)
For the 2025 HuLC competition, student teams are encouraged to propose cutting-edge solutions for in-space cryogenic liquid storage and transfer systems, critic...
Crew Explores Space Construction Techniques and Lunar Cement Mixing
Aug 13, 2024 (SPX)
NASA and its international collaborators are exploring cost-effective approaches for constructing satellites in space and building habitats on the Moon. The cur...
Meet the two Boeing mission astronauts stuck aboard the ISS
Aug 10, 2024 (AFP)
Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than a week aboard the International Space Station ...
ISS Crew Conducts Historic Archaeological Survey in Space
Aug 08, 2024 (SPX)
More than 270 people from 23 countries have visited the International Space Station (ISS) over more than two decades. Crew member interviews can reveal how peop...
LeoLabs Secures $20M in New Contracts in H1 2024
Aug 08, 2024 (SPX)
In early 2024, LeoLabs secured new contracts to support SDA and STM missions for a growing global clientele. Key clients include the U.S. Space Force, the U.S. ...
Ascending Node Technologies Releases Innovative Spaceline Visualization Software
Aug 06, 2024 (SPX)
Spaceline is an affordable web-based suite of data analysis and visualization tools designed for real-time collaboration among mission teams during all phases, ...
Cygnus resupply spacecraft reaches ISS with four tons of supplies, experiments
Aug 06, 2024 (UPI)
Cygnus completed installation on the ISS at 5:33 a.m. EDT, NASA said. It brought 8,200 pounds of scientific investigation and cargo to the ISS's orbiting labora...
ISS mission to launch biomedical and physical science research
Aug 05, 2024 (SPX)
Here are some of the key ISS National Lab-sponsored investigations on the NG-21 mission that aim to benefit humanity and advance commercial activities in low Ea...
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