Blue Origin completes 25th mission to space with six crew onboard
Blue Origin has now successfully completed their seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed ...
UPDATE Boeing, ULA and NASA team up for Starliner’s “closeout processes and flight rationale” to launch astronauts on May 25
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad illuminated by spotlights at Space Launch Complex 41 on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky New information in the process ...
HyImpulse launches the SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range
Photo of the SR75 rocket launch, courtesy of the companies. HyImpulse successfully launched their SR75 rocket from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range, Australia, in a milestone achievement for commercial launch capabilities in Australia. The SR75 rocket is one of the ...
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NASA awards contracts for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition services
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like StarThis NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system. NASA has selected four companies to provide spacecraft and related services, including acquiring spacecraft components and equipment, in support of NASA’s Goddard ...
Pasqal + Thales solve satellite planning challenges with neutral-atom quantum computing
Screenshot Pasqal, in partnership with Thales, have revealed a major advancement within the AQUAPS project that aims to explore neutral atom architectures to solve optimization problems, with a particular focus on satellite planning. Screenshot For the past three years, the teams ...
DISH TV + Hughes debut 1st bundled service offering to enhance connectivity
DISH Network and Hughes Network Systems, both EchoStar companies (Nasdaq: SATS), have introduced a new bundled service offering that brings the power of DISH satellite TV together with Hughesnet® satellite internet to create a superior solution in TV and internet for rural ...
Microchip expands radiation-tolerant microcontroller portfolio for aerospace + defense markets
Screenshot Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has announced their SAMD21RT, a radiation-tolerant (RT) Arm® Cortex®-M0+ based 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) in a 64-pin ceramic and plastic package with 128 KB Flash and 16 KB SRAM. Designed for space-constrained applications, where size and ...
Collins Aerospace delivers 1st TruNet™ AR-1500 networked comms airborne radio to Europe
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, recently delivered the first networked communications airborne radio to a European nation. The Polish Ministry of Defense will equip their C-130H Hercules fleet with Collins’ TruNet™ AR-1500 new software-defined radio. TruNet™ AR-1500 is ...
Boeing Donates $200,000 to support flod recovery + relief Efforts in Brazil
Boeing [NYSE: BA] is committing $200,000 from the Boeing Charitable Trust to assist with recovery and relief efforts following the recent flooding in Brazil — these funds will support the BrazilFoundation’s Rio Grande do Sul Humanitarian Campaign to provide immediate ...
SpaceX’s Friday launch sends Starlink smallsats soaring and a breaks a record of 21 recoveries of this Falcon 9’s booster
Photo captured on Friday, May 17, by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. Success on Friday, May 17 at 8:32 p.m. ET, as Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral ...
Inmarsat Maritime launches a new report —transforming vessels into offices + remote homes
Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has launched a new report Digital Wave: Transforming vessels into floating offices and remote homes. Screenshot The report explores the growing importance of ‘always-on’ onboard connectivity as ships and their crew become increasingly reliant on ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden site leverages investments to accelerate SRM production
The Aerojet Rocketdyne Camden, Arkansas, facility is a major point of focus as the company invests internal capital and executes the $215.6M cooperative agreement signed last year with the DoD to expand and modernize facilities to support increased production of ...
Boeing’s update regarding delay of ULA’s launch of NASA’s Starliner
Starliner docks to the ISS for the first time on OFT-2. (NASA photo) Following is a report from Boeing:NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) teams continue working remaining open tasks in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test ...