Lt. Col. Brian Fredrickson, Space Domain Awareness Delta program manager of Space Systems Command’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System Hosted Payload (QZSS-HP), Capt. Alex Woodard (left), deputy program manager and Capt. Jacob Schneider (right), chief engineer, Hosted Payloads, along with representatives from the Japanese National Space Policy Secretariat, mark the successful delivery of the second of two…

The collaboration will integrate 24/7, all-weather Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data into LiveEO’s disaster response solutions

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today shared the financial results for fiscal first quarter 2023, ended March 31, 2023. Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck, said: “Rocket Lab started the year strong with three successful…

TOKYO — ispace, inc., (ispace) a global lunar exploration company, issued an update on the status of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander. The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander was scheduled to touchdown on the surface of the Moon at approximately 1:40 a.m. JST. As of 8:00 a.m. JST, April 26, 2023, the communication between…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — For the first time since 2019, NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) returns to in-person competition Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, at the Aviation Challenge camp of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.  Media, the public, and families are invited to attend this free event from 7:30…

Company Shares Updated Details of Terran R Vehicle Architecture LONG BEACH, Calif. — Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today revealed plans for Terran R, its reusable, 3D printed, medium-to-heavy lift orbital launch vehicle. Building on over seven years of Relativity Space’s…

New microsats will help provide insight into thunderstorms’ impacts on weather and climate models LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, will design and manufacture three microsatellites to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts, or INCUS, mission. The INCUS mission – led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory –…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Since launching Tetra-1 November 1, 2022, Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company partnered with the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command successfully deployed the vehicle from its host, initialized all components and subsystems and performed systems check out. Tetra-1 is healthy and ready for mission operations. “Tetra-1 has helped us learn…

WASHINGTON (NASA HQ PR) — A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants – down to four square miles – lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will improve life on Earth by revolutionizing the way scientists observe…

Bolstered by $30M in financing, Space Force veterans and industry experts unveil tech stack to propel space security forward and protect interests of U.S. and its allies in space COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — True Anomaly, Inc., the company revolutionizing space security, stability, and sustainability, announced today it has come out of stealth and raised $30M…