NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has awarded Airbus a contract to design and build the twin spacecraft for the GRACE-C mission. GRACE-C stands for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity and is a joint
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Troy Meink, principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, said the agency expects to see a decline in the cost of launch services to be procured under the third phase of
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SpaceX commenced the third integrated flight test of the upper stage of its Starship human landing system, or HLS, and accompanying Super Heavy booster. The test advances NASA’s preparations for the Artemis
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The U.S. Space Systems Command is leading the launch of the National Reconnaissance Office’s 70th mission, which will be flown aboard the Delta IV Heavy rocket, on March 28. The NROL-70 mission
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is calling on companies with existing space situational awareness, or SSA, capabilities to demonstrate their technology’s viability for the Traffic Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS,
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NASA has begun preparations for the production, testing and assembly of the Block 1B configuration of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle set to launch the space agency’s Artemis
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The Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, or CRSRA, division within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has begun soliciting public comments regarding potential new instructions on the disposal of
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NASA has finished developing and testing a group of small rovers that will autonomously map the lunar surface. The rovers are part of a technology demonstration called Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration, or
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The International Space Station National Laboratory is soliciting concepts that could advance in-space production applications in advanced materials and manufacturing as part of a new funding opportunity. The ISS National Lab said
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Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, said SDA is working to establish a “mesh network” of laser communication crosslinks and demonstrate the Link 16 waveform
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