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NASA Selects Blue Origin and Partners to Develop Artemis Lander

Using existing and in development technologies provides the head start needed to meet NASA’s goal of landing at the South Pole of the Moon. Lockheed Martin’s Ascent Element is based on Orion; Northrop Grumman’s Transfer Element is based on Cygnus; and Blue Origin’s Descent Element is based on the Blue Moon lander and BE-7 engine, […]

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NASA Sounding Rockets Carry TRICE-2 over Norwegian Sea

Two NASA sounding rockets successfully flew over the Norwegian Sea early in the morning December 8 carrying an experiment to study the electrodynamics of the polar cusp. The Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics or TRICE-2 were launched at 3:26 and 3:28 a.m. EST from the Andoya Space Center in Andenes, Norway. The first rocket […]

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SpaceX Launches 16th ISS Resupply Mission

SpaceX’s 16th Commercial Resupply Services mission successfully blasted off Wednesday carrying 5,600 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station. The company’s Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 1:16 p.m. EST on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On its way to the space station, […]

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Millennium Space Systems Completes Successful ALTAIR™ Pathfinder Mission

“ALTAIR™ Pathfinder has been a resilient and flexible satellite,” said Griffith Russell, Millennium’s mission director. “Combining autonomous routine operations with ease of reprogramming for special opportunities, ALTAIR™ Pathfinder efficiently delivered significant technical performance data that will directly benefit our customers, stakeholders and Boeing’s space business.” Millennium developed ALTAIR™ Pathfinder in under 12 months, as an […]

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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid. Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary […]

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Australian Space Agency warned: fund it or risk failure

The outgoing chairman of the Space Industry Association of Australia warns that without proper funding the nation’s Space Agency could falter. Jim Plouffe Leading space expert Michael Davis, who is stepping down from his chairmanship of the Space Industry Association of Australia in 2019 after decades of work, told more than 450 delegates at the […]

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NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface to Learn What Lies Beneath

Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth. InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with […]

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NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Critical Design Review Milestone

You know the feeling of pride and achievement when you’ve worked really hard on a term paper, and finally turn it in? That’s how the critical design review team for NASA’s Space Launch System is feeling this week as the program completed its review. The in-depth review – the first in almost 40 years for […]

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Delta IV Launches High Capacity Digital WGS-7 Military Comsat

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 8:07 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-37. This is ULA’s seventh launch in 2015 and the second successful ULA launch in just eight days. Today marks ULA’s 98th successful one-at-a-time […]