Nasa has awarded a contract to Airbus to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft, in order to continue the measurement of the Earth’s gravity field. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is working with the German Space Agency, and the craft will be built at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). During its planned five year lifetime, the GRACE-C (Gravity Recovery ...
The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory has announced funding opportunities for in-space production applications in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing. The ISS was designated as a U.S. National Laboratory in 2005 by Congress – it’s responsible for managing all non-NASA research, officially enabling space research and development access to commercial, academic, and government users. In-space production In-space ...
Pictured is the next-generation spacesuit for the International Space Station (ISS), which is lighter weight and lower volume than NASA's current spacesuit.
Belgium has become the 34th country to sign up to the Artemis Accords, a space governance agreement between the United States and other national governments. Signees to the Accords can participate in the Artemis space programme lead by Nasa, which has – for example – long-term goals to revisit the Moon, establish a lunar base and travel to Mars. Basically, ...
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, working with Nasa, has rolled out the X-59, an experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. Described as a quiet supersonic aircraft and a one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to use it to pave the way for commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound. The ...
An Innovation Park in Cambridge as was, Nasa research with autonomous drones, Intel buying the French fabless silicon and software company Silicon Mobility, and proposed revisions to the U.S.A. H-1B Visa programme...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to provide the Crew and Science Airlock for Gateway, Nasa’s proposed lunar space station that will succeed the International Space Station and be in a lunar orbit. Specifically, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the UAE will be responsible for the development of the module. The Gateway station is intended to support ...
This time, we’re talking Mars names, satellite data, tax returns, records in space, the Euclid telescope, GNSS, and more...
Nasa is highlighting its work using autonomous drones for Air Taxi research. Observing how the devices avoid both each other and other obstacles, researchers at its Langley Research Center recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight. The space agency reports that the drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, flew along a planned route, and ...
Nasa has been highlighting the progress carried out on work for new space stations, which will be used to replace the current International Space Station (ISS). The US Space Agency highlights the work of its three competing commercial space station partners – Axiom Space, Orbital Reef and Starlab – for the design and development of possible new “orbital destinations”. “We ...
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