Collins Aerospace has exited a contract to develop new spacesuits for NASA following talks with the agency. The contract was part of the xEVAS program, which saw awards to Collins and Axiom Space to develop up to four new spacesuit designs for both the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit and the Artemis …
Collins Backs Out of ISS Spacesuit Contract With NASA. Read More »
Canadarm3 will fly to the upcoming NASA Gateway space station in five years or so on the back of a lucrative new design contract drawn from earlier funding of the program, Canadian space officials pledged. The robotic arm, key to building the Gateway space station that will play a key role in NASA‘s series of …
Canada Begins Work On New Canadarm3 Robotic Arm For Upcoming Gateway Lunar Outpost. Read More »
Nine astronauts on the space station briefly moved to their docked return spacecraft late Wednesday (June 26) as a satellite broke up in low Earth orbit. The Expedition 71 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) went to their three spacecraft, including Boeing Starliner, shortly after 9 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT), according to a brief …
Key Highlights Quub, Inc has partnered with Solid State Propulsion (SSP) to integrate the SSP Pocket Rocket Vacuum Arc Thruster (VAT) into its satellite platforms. The Vacuum Arc Thruster developed by SSP operates on the principle of pulsed electric arcs between two electrodes, generating high-velocity plasma to propel satellites with precision and efficiency. Quub, Inc …
Quub, Inc Partners with SSP to Advance Space Propulsion Technology. Read More »
Key Highlights Starlink has officially announced that its high-speed, low-latency internet service is now available in Madagascar. Starlink, the satellite telecommunications company, has officially announced on its X page (formerly Twitter) that its high-speed, low-latency internet service is now commercially available in Madagascar. The journey towards this milestone began in April 2024 when Tahina Razafindramalo, …
SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Service Available in Madagascar. Read More »
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today, marking a new milestone in the company’s reusability mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Aboard the rocket was a batch of 23 …
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites, Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Record 22nd Flight. Read More »
China’s Chang’e 6 mission return capsule has been transferred to Beijing and opened to access its precious cargo. The return capsule made its fiery plunge through the atmosphere on June 25 before landing in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. The event brought the 53-day-long Chang’e 6 mission to a successful conclusion, delivering the first-ever lunar …
China Opens Chang’e 6 Return Capsule Containing Samples From Moon’s Far Side. Read More »
NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes. The space agency first asked U.S. aerospace companies for proposals in March 2023 and then again in September of that year. The request was for a “space tug” vehicle that could help …
NASA Selects SpaceX To Build Deorbit Vehicle For International Space Station. Read More »
Engineers at NASA are turning to augmented reality (AR) to build spacecraft more efficiently and with greater accuracy. The Roman Space Telescope team has already started applying the technology while working on the next-gen observatory — its next major eye on the sky after the James Webb Space Telescope‘s massive success. Roman is currently being …
NASA Dips Into Futuristic AR Tech To Build Powerful Roman Space Telescope. Read More »
A Nigerian could soon make it to space for the first time ever, via Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin. The Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA), a U.S. for-profit company, has guaranteed that one of the six seats for an upcoming flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle will go to a Nigerian, …
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Could Soon Launch Nigeria’s 1st-ever space Tourist. Read More »
