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NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station. Scheduled to launch at 2:53 p.m. EDT Friday, July 30, OFT-2 is the second...
Masten Space Systems today announced it was awarded a Phase II SBIR contract through the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX program to develop and demonstrate a lunar positioning and navigation network prototype.
With functionality similar to a Global Positioning System...
Intuitive Machines (IM) has entered a long-term agreement with Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd to support every stage of IM’s missions to the Moon, from launch and early operations, through transit, and including lunar operations. IM will use Goonhilly’s services...
NASA is preparing to establish a regular cadence of trips to the Moon under Artemis. To help the agency fine-tune its approach, NASA will award firm fixed-price, milestone-based contracts of up to $45 million for commercial-led work.
NASA is seeking...
Scientific research studies to determine how to grow plants in extreme environments on Earth will help NASA understand how to grow plants in extreme conditions on the moon or Mars.
The growth of crop plants in lunar or Mars habitation...
Press Release From: NASA HQ
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released the following statement Tuesday after the Senate passage of the U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act:
“The U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which includes the NASA authorization bill, is an investment in...
The second European Service Module’s (ESM) flight model is well into the integration test phase as Airbus readies it for the initial Orion mission with astronauts – which will fly around the Moon and return to Earth.
Performed at Airbus...
Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, “NASA Lunar Programs: Significant Work Remains, Underscoring Challenges to Achieving Moon Landing in 2024”.
The report was the result of an Appropriations request for GAO work on the National Aeronautics and...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has focused its attention on the Moon. With the aim of carrying out a lunar cave exploration mission, ESA launched a call for project submission in mid-2019.
Currently, there are two studies selected: RoboCrane (developed...
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