Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency will adapt what they had been working on for NASAβs lunar Gateway into applications for a planned lunar base, albeit with few specifics.
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The European Commission has reached an agreement with an industrial consortium to proceed with a secure connectivity constellation, increasing the number of satellites as well as its cost.
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July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest robotic spaceflight achievements in NASAβs history: the landing of the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars. It was the first [β¦]
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NASA and Roscosmos have agreed to continue exchanging seats between Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft, but that agreement does not yet extend to Starliner.
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Voyager Technologies remains upbeat about the prospects for its Starlab commercial space station but is hoping for some tweaks to NASAβs plans to support the stationβs development.
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SAN FRANCISCO β The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will continue to evaluate data from Spire Globalβs Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) under a $3 million contract extension announced Aug. 4. [β¦]
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HELSINKI β China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also upgrading its on-orbit communications relay capabilities. A Long March 6A rocket lifted [β¦]
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Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agencyβs administrator.
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WARSAW, Poland β The Spanish government announced it will allocate between 1.6 billion and 2 billion euros ($1.8 to $2.3 billion) to develop a national military satellite communications constellation that [β¦]
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A NASA official says that work with Boeing on the companyβs CST-100 Starliner vehicle is making βgood progressβ but declined to offer a date when the spacecraft could fly again.
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NASAβs next flagship space telescope is set to launch in late August, nine months ahead of schedule.
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Boeing is still working with NASA to determine when to fly its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle on a cargo mission to the International Space Station.
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The Commerce Department is moving ahead with plans to implement a voluntary mission authorization system for novel space activities that are not regulated by other agencies.
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HELSINKI β China conducted a pair of launches Thursday, including a Long March 3B rocket which delivered its payload to orbit despite a lightning strike. The Long March 3B rocket [β¦]
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More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of a fifth of NASAβs civil servant workforce in the last year.
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WARSAW, Poland β The Polish government has agreed to invest around $745 million in the development of the planned IRISΒ² multi-orbit satellite internet constellation with the European Union.Β The money [β¦]
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Relativity Space struck a deal with Space Florida to build manufacturing and test facilities for its Terran R rocket on Floridaβs Space Coast.
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The pilot of Artemis 2 says NASAβs return to the moon should start with human landings in less challenging equatorial regions rather than go directly to the south pole.
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The British government and the Space Florida aerospace finance and development authority have each committed $200,000 to support joint research, innovation and commercialization projects.
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NASA and Draper have terminated plans for a lunar lander mission after significant delays in development of the spacecraft.
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