DARPA and NASA to test nuclear engine for future Mars missions
NASA will be responsible for the development of the nuclear engine, with DARPA handling the integration of that propulsion system into a spacecraft and launching it.
- Latest
- Trending
NASA will be responsible for the development of the nuclear engine, with DARPA handling the integration of that propulsion system into a spacecraft and launching it.
The launch of Electron from the NASA-controlled Wallops Flight Facility also marked the introduction of the agencys autonomous flight termination capability, known as NAFTU.
This will be the UAE's second ISS mission, after Hazza Al Mansouri spent eight days on the orbiting science laboratory in 2019.
Starlab is planned as a free-flying space station to support NASA, global space agencies, and researchers, set to launch in 2028.
The two cubesats will use complementary scientific instruments to investigate the conditions that cause these disruptive features to form.
The European Space Agency and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites will cooperate with NASA on the programme.
AST SpaceMobile will collaborate with NASAs Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis programme on spaceflight safety practices.
SWOT is a joint mission of NASA and the French space agency CNES to track water levels globally with much better resolution than past spacecraft.
The contractor will provide the products and services required to monitor and maintain Webb spacecraft systems.
Rwanda and Nigeria became the latest nations to sign the document that outlines best practices for safe and sustainable space exploration based on the Outer Space Treaty and other agreements.
With Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of colour on the lunar surface and establish long-term exploration at the moon in preparation for human missions ...
The launches are scheduled to take place no earlier than May 1, 2023.
The Boeing-built SLS rocket carried the uncrewed Orion spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, which will serve as the exploration vehicle to carry future crew to space.
NASA has completed a contract modification for what is formally known as Option B of its Human Landing System (HLS) contract with SpaceX.
The vehicles built for Artemis VI, VII and VIII will see an additional 30% cost reduction.
NASA has awarded KSAT a $162,000 contract and SpaceLink a $190,000 contract to conduct studies related to direct-to-Earth and lunar-space-relay communications.
As part of the agreement, NASA and SpaceX will look at the potential of using a Dragon spacecraft to reboost or even service the Hubble Space Telescope.
The agency will solicit proposals from companies that are part of its VADR contract for smallsat launch services to launch the Tropics cubesats in time for the 2023 hurricane season.
Software-defined satellites present an $87bn revenue opportunity thanks to payload flexibility and price advantages. But challenges around production, ground operations and interoperability must first be resolved, experts tell Keith Fernandez.
The suit is based on a NASA-developed reference design called xEMU, and incorporates increased flexibility and specialised tools for lunar exploration.
The contract modification includes ground, launch, in-orbit, and return and recovery operations, cargo transportation for each mission, and a lifeboat capability while docked to the ISS.
For the Ax-2 mission, Axiom Space will submit four proposed crew members and four backup crew to the stations Multilateral Crew Operations Panel for review.
The call order has been issued under a five-year Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Programme.
The Astrobotic lander mission will fly CubeRover to the Moon to demonstrate its ability to survive the two-week lunar night.
NASA awarded Blue Origin $130m in December 2021 for the development of Orbital Reef as part of its Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development (CLDP) programme.
The UAE astronaut will serve as a mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX in February 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch for SPHEREx alone, valued at $98.8m.
The Emirati astronaut will join NASAs Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg alongside Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev.
The mission is the eighth NASA has awarded to date as part of CLPS, but the first to go to the lunar farside.
The contract is valued at $255m for the launch and other mission-related costs.
Saudi Arabia is the 21st country to join the Artemis Accords, announced by NASA in October 2020 with eight countries as original signatories.
The image shows a galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723 about 4.5bn light-years away.
The 240-day mission will replicate various stages and scenarios of a manned mission to the Moon which follows phases such as launch, orbit, landing, and return.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will fly the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission no earlier than late this year.
The xEVAS contract has a potential value of $3.5bn through 2034 with a 10-year base contract plus two option years.
NASA will arrange for the launch of Lunar Pathfinder through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme and gain access to communications services from the spacecraft.
GLIDE is a heliophysics mission intended to study variability in Earths atmosphere.
As the world embarks on a golden age of space, the pressing problem of space debris must be addressed. Estimated at $14bn for on-orbit services alone, could this give rise ...
The UAE will send its astronaut for a 180-day-long mission, making it the 11th country to do so.
The awards are in the form of Space Act Agreements with the companies matching or exceeding the awards with their own funds.
Emirates Mars Mission and MAVEN have finalised plans to facilitate data exchange to maximise the scientific return from Mars missions.
The award will include both an uncrewed demonstration landing and a crewed landing, much like SpaceXs HLS Option A contract.
NASA launched the Artemis Accords before its plans to establish a human base on the Moon and a lunar-orbiting space station through the Artemis programme.
GOES-T is the third of four satellites in the GOES-R series of geostationary weather satellites built by Lockheed Martin.
HelioSwarm is projected to cost $250m, while MUSE will cost $192m.
The Mars Ascent Vehicle will be transported to Mars on a NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander, which will also carry an ESA-developed rover.
There is a five-year ordering period and a maximum total value of $300m across all contracts.
The completion of JWSTs L2 insertion burn marked the end of the telescopes mid-course correction burns, all three of which were completed successfully.
The training is part of the Reimbursable Space Act Agreement NASA has previously signed with MBRSC.
Before her NASA stint, Calvin has worked as an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in Maryland.
The deployment of the two mirror wings marked the end of the major deployments of the space telescope that started shortly after its December launch on an Ariane 5.
The next phase in the marathon is to separate the sunshield's five membranes, a process NASA refers to as tensioning, which will take two days.
From global space agencies to the up-and-coming private sector players and even the general public each of us has a role to play in guiding the global space journey ...
The telescope is slated to arrive at its final destination, 1.5m kilometres from Earth, approximately 29 days after launch.
Axiom Space is currently preparing for that first private astronaut mission, Ax-1, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than February 21, 2022.
NASA originally envisioned alternating missions between SpaceX and Boeing, assuming both companies vehicles will be certified around the same time.
Space Micro is the sixth acquisition by Voyager, a firm established in 2019 to create a vertically integrated, publicly-traded space exploration company.
The six-man crew will conduct over 70 experiments during the mission.
In an exclusive interview with SatellitePro, Herve Derrey, Executive Vice President of Thales Alenia Space, sheds light on the company's development in digital solutions for telecommunications and space observation as ...
The spacecraft is named after the Lucy fossil of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974.
