Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2022
Delivered by Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, Tetra-1 launched aboard USSF-44 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The program was the first prototype award under the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command's Space Enterprise Consortium Other Transaction Authority charter. And Millennium Space Systems was the first to deliver under the OTA. "With the drive toward bett

Dulles VA (SPX) Nov 01, 2022
Northrop Grumman played a critical role in the integration, launch and deployment of the United States Space Force (USSF)-44 mission that successfully launched Monday from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Several hardware and software platforms were provided to deliver multiple missions for customers including highly complex payloads from multiple industry partners. The Long Duration Propuls

Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 03, 2022
Planets can force their host stars to act younger than their age, according to a new study of multiple systems using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This may be the best evidence to date that some planets apparently slow down the aging process for their host stars. While the anti-aging property of "hot Jupiters" (that is, gas giant exoplanets that orbit a star at Mercury's distance or cl

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2022
We arrived at the spectacular workspace pictured above, but what made it spectacular - rocks - is what also made it tricky. Our left front wheel was propped up just enough on one of the lovely and interesting rocks to make it unsafe to unstow the arm. Thus, as Deirdra, one of my planning partners said - it felt like Mars was taunting us with some early 1990s MC Hammer. Fortunately, the rov

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 03, 2022
The 18th Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station carries scientific investigations of topics such as plant mutations and mudflow structure along with a demonstration of camera technology and small satellites from Japan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The Cygnus spacecraft carrying these investigations to the orbiting laboratory is scheduled for li

Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2022
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the maturity level of cryogenic composite technologies. The objective is to reduce the weight of the upper stage by using carbo

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2022
Newly proven technology developed at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia, turns a single sounding rocket into a hive deploying a swarm of up to 16 instruments. The technology offers unprecedented accuracy for monitoring Earth's atmosphere and solar weather over a wide area. The Swarm Communications technology, as dubbed by its NASA Wallops creators, spreads sub-paylo

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2022
As astronauts explore the South Pole region of the Moon during Artemis missions, they will be able to go farther and conduct more science than ever before thanks to a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV). Instead of owning the vehicle, NASA plans to contract it as a service from industry. The draft request for proposals for the LTV Services (LTVS) contract is now ready for industry to review, a

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2021
NASA's CAPSTONE CubeSat space probe is back on track to reach the moon later this month after a glitch during engine maneuvers in September caused the craft to spin out of control. A separate engine burn last week proved successful and set the craft's trajectory to arrive in the moon's orbit on Nov. 13, less than two weeks from now, the agency announced Monday amid a flurry of test miss

St Andrews, Scotland (SPX) Nov 03, 2022
What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at the University of St Andrews will coordinate global expertise to prepare humanity for such an event and how we should respond. While we might never learn about the existence of life beyond Earth, or even about another intelligent civilisation, there's a chance it could be detected soo