Artemis 1 mission reaches halfway point Original Publication Date: 2022-11-29 12:07 NASA managers are adding additional test objectives for the Orion spacecraft. Orion spacecraft orbits the moon in the middle of the 25.5-day Artemis 1 mission. Controllers have dealt with only minor issues ...

Orion enters lunar distant retrograde orbit Original Publication Date: 2022-11-25 23:44 Orion spacecraft fired main engine in its European Service Module at 4:52 p.m. Eastern. The maneuver changed the velocity of the spacecraft by about 110 meters per second. Orion will perform a maneuver Dec. ...

ESA secures 16.9 billion euros at ministerial Original Publication Date: 2022-11-23 17:56 European Space Agency member states provide 16.9 billion euros for next three years. It is a significant increase over 2019 but more than 1.5 billion euros below what the agency sought. Despite falling ...

Final module docks at China’s Tiangong space station Original Publication Date: 2022-10-31 21:02 Mengtian is a 17.9-meter-long, 4.2-meter-diameter and roughly 22-ton module. It joins two earlier modules: the Tianhe core module and Wentian experiment module. China plans to keep Tiangong occupied ...

Major operator consolidation is a long time coming Original Publication Date: 2022-09-12 13:12 Satellite operator consolidation has been a perennial topic at industry conferences. The rise of Starlink, OneWeb, and other NGSO broadband constellations has come amid a broader shift away from video ...

NASA selects Axiom Space to develop Artemis spacesuit Original Publication Date: 2022-09-08 11:00 NASA awarded $228.5 million task order to Axiom Space to develop spacesuit. Space suit will be used on first Artemis landing mission, although design of suit remains under wraps. Axiom and Collins ...

NASA to repair SLS liquid hydrogen leak on the pad Original Publication Date: 2022-09-07 01:16 NASA will attempt to fix a liquid hydrogen seal that caused a Space Launch System scrub. That work will be done on the pad rather than rolling the vehicle back to the VAB. A problem with that seal ...

Artemis 1 passes flight readiness review Original Publication Date: 2022-08-23 10:53 NASA says flight readiness review confirms plans for a launch of the Artemis 1 mission. The uncrewed test of NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft moved a step closer to launch. A launch on Aug. 29 ...

Nelson satisfied with NASA authorization act Original Publication Date: 2022-08-10 11:24 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says agency has "gotten what we need" From bill. President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act Aug. 9. The bill was intended to stimulate domestic production ...

Northrop Grumman and Firefly to partner on upgraded Antares Original Publication Date: 2022-08-08 17:04 Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace announce partnership. Partnership would solve Northrop's reliance on Ukrainian and Russian suppliers. The new version of the Antares, called the Antares ...