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The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
July 2023 may go down in history books as an important pivot in the private space race, thanks to the launch of India’s Chandrayaan-3 and now two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between Colorado-based Voyager Space and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as well as the ISRO’s commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), stating that Voyager Space will use Indian rockets and
A design of Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear ReactorThe space agencies of two countries – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will develop a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation by the end of 2023Modi and Biden called for enhanced commercial collaboration between the US and Indian private sectors in the entire value chain
Gavin Schmidt of Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planetJuly will likely be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, Gavin Schmidt, the director of Nasa’s Goddard I…
The radar payload has been integrated with the satellite bus at the UR Rao Satellite Centre in Bangalore, making a single spacecraft in mid June. Personnel have been routing thousands of metres of cables between the payload and the bus since then. The solar panels on the satellite, along with a large, 12 metre diameter drum-shaped wire mesh reflector remain to be attached.The NASA-ISRO Synthetic
An anonymous reader shares a report: The four astronauts assigned to soar beyond the far side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission settled into their seats inside a drab classroom last month at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It was one in a s…
Congress will pour billions more dollars into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its associated architecture, even as NASA science missions remain vulnerable to cuts. TechCrunch reports: Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees recomme…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two small spacecraft should have now been cruising through the Solar System on the way to study unexplored asteroids, but after several years of development and nearly $50 million in expenditures, …
NASA has expanded its contracts with Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to design and develop new spacesuits, providing each company with an additional $5 million. Engadget reports: NASA has ordered a spacesuit from Axiom Space meant for use in Low Eart…
Stephen Clark writes via Ars Technica: When India’s ambassador to the US signed up his country to the Artemis Accords last month, it signaled the world’s most populous nation — with a growing prowess in spaceflight — could be turning toward the Unite…