TAMPA, Fla. — GomSpace, a Danish smallsat maker, announced plans April 8 to integrate space traffic management (STM) tools from Portugal’s Neuraspace into its satellite operations platform to help avoid collisions in…
Category: 2. Space
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NASA to Kick Off 31st Annual Rover Competition
NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge returns Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, with student teams competing at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Aviation Challenge course near the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in…
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SpaceX secures majority of NSSL Phase 3 fiscal year 2025 missions
COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. Space Systems Command has assigned the first nine National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions under the Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts, with SpaceX capturing seven launches worth $845.8 million and United…
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How Space Systems Command is navigating change
When has anything to do with space ever stayed the same? Satellites are smaller, launches are more frequent, capabilities are more advanced, threats are more real.
At Space Systems Command, we recognize change can be hard,…
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Umbra to develop maritime surveillance satellites for U.S. military
COLORADO SPRINGS — Umbra, a California-based manufacturer of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, has been tapped to develop next-generation sensor satellites aimed at enhancing maritime and open-ocean search capabilities…
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To build new weather satellite instruments, L3Harris opts for automated manufacturing
Colorado Springs — L3Harris Technologies is preparing to modernize the development, production and testing of weather satellite instruments in a new 9,290-square-meter facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
“The new facility means continued…
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NASA Welcomes Bangladesh as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Following a signing ceremony Tuesday in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, NASA congratulates Bangladesh as the 54th nation to commit to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity.
“We are thrilled by…
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Galaxies Without Stars? Scientists Zero In on the Universe’s Darkest Halos
Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has used advanced simulations and theory to…
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Space Force to revamp training for a new era of space conflict
The U.S. Space Force is expanding its search for training and testing technologies and is now planning to put more than a half billion dollars toward the effort in a few years.
The move comes as the service looks to close any gaps in…
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Artemis 2 preparations continue as doubts swirl around program’s future
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Despite political uncertainty about the future of NASA’s overall effort to return humans to the moon, the hardware for the next Artemis mission continues to take shape.
NASA and industry representatives…
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