Relativity Space – a California start-up offering autonomous rockets and launch services for satellites – recently announced the creation of a new reusable rocket named Terran R. The Terran R is a larger orbital rocket than […]
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts for its High Enthalpy Aperture Technology (HEAT) project. HEAT will develop rugged RF radomes and infrared windows that will be able to withstand the extreme […]
Startup company bluShift Aerospace recently launched the world’s first commercial booster powered by biofuel – named ‘Stardust 1.0.’ The company’s rocket engine – called the Modular Adaptable Rocket Engine for Vehicle Launch (MAREVL) – uses a proprietary solid […]
Aevum – an aerospace startup – recently released its rocket-launching drone designed to send small satellites into orbit without a pilot or a launchpad. Called the RAVN-X, after flight testing it is scheduled to launch […]
NIST’s Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QEDC) recently launched a new research committee focused on the national security applications of quantum science. The committee will focus on identifying specific uses, standards and enabling technologies – along […]
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have issued a request for information (RIF) for the Landsat Next project. Landsat Next will offer sensors for land observations with high-spectral and […]
The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter satellite – built by The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) – has received the Small Satellite Mission of the Year award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The HARP spacecraft […]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. have formed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to develop innovative, compact, and robust telescopes for nanosatellites. The project will combine LLNL’s Monolithic Telescope […]
iRocket – a New York based startup building autonomous small reusable rockets – has signed a Phase II RAPID Other Transaction Agreement contract with the U.S. Air Force to transport micro, nano, cube, and other […]
The US Air Force will be working with AI start-up, Hypergiant, to build prototypes of a network of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), named the “Chameleon Constellation.” The network’s machine learning/AI capabilities will […]
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