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The U.S. agency dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration is finally exploring the barest edges of the modern livestreaming era. From a report: NASA has announced it’s launching a beta for on-demand streaming content through NASA+. Oh, a…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner program, developed for NASA since 2014, has incurred total losses exceeding $1 billion, with an additional $257 million loss announced in the second quarter of 2023. Gizmodo reports: Boeing’s total losses now amount to a stag…
DARPA and NASA’s Joint DRACO Project Technology Will Help Enable Humans to Travel to MarsDENVER — US Defence conglomerate Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). The project will represent a rapid
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…