United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi has been named to lift off to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission planned for launch next spring.
SpaceX is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to quickly reject a proposal from the Dish Network and the private trust of Dell Technologies’ CEO Michael Dell for rights to use the 12-GHz bandwidth to expand fixed, low-power terrestrial links into high-power mobile links.
The U.S. Air Force has an “informal” agreement with the National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Office to create joint requirements and co-fund new space-based capabilities that can meet both intelligence and operational needs.
In its nearly 22 years of continuous staffing, the International Space Station has hosted more than 2,500 science investigations and technology-development activities, a legacy benefiting both life on Earth and the human exploration of deep space, according to a new report from NASA
NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.
Millennium Space Systems says it has demonstrated several new technologies–including new avionics, communications devices, onboard processing of data and radio-frequency crosslinks–with a three-satellite constellation called RED-EYE that showcases the strength of small satellites.
NASA has targeted three potential launch dates for Artemis I, a multiweek uncrewed first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on a mission around the Moon and back to Earth.
NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory that is to join the James Webb Space Telescope and aging Hubble Space Telescope in studies of exoplanets and the deepest reaches of the universe.
NASA is close to selecting a launch period for Artemis I, the initial test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back to Earth, an agency official says.
The Space Development Agency has awarded two prototype contracts worth about $1.32 billion in total to teams led by L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems for 28 Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is dropping helicopter operations from its plan to recover the Vulcan rocket’s BE-4 engines for reuse, Aerospace DAILY has learned.
SpaceX CRS-25 autonomously docked to the International Space Station’s U.S. segment Harmony module on July 16, delivering more than 5,800 lbs. of crew supplies, science investigations, technology development projects and station hardware.
