NASA’s newly released budget reveals a significant reduction in funding for the Orion spacecraft and the Lunar Gateway space station. The agency’s total budget has dropped to $18.8 billion, marking a 24% cut of $6 billion. NASA’s budget shift reflects a realignment of resources, prioritizing crewed missions to the Moon and Mars over the Orion […]
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Northrop Grumman has written a new chapter in the history of space exploration. Its Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) successfully performed the first undocking between two commercial satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), marking the beginning of a new era for commercial space operations. Developed and operated by SpaceLogistics LLC, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, MEV-1
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Starlink isn’t the only U.S. company working on direct satellite connectivity for cell phones. AST SpaceMobile has been developing this technology for several years. In fact, AST made history as the first company ever to make a “phone home” call from space. The company now aims to cover the entire U.S. in collaboration with AT&T
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Sometimes, it only takes a few years and meeting the right people to completely change someone’s career path. Meredith Patterson is a great example. She works as an aerospace engineer at NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Even though she didn’t know much about rockets at first, now she’s part of the team
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In September 2022, NASA did a big test in space. They sent the DART mission to crash into an asteroid moon called Dimorphos, which orbits a bigger asteroid named Didymos. It was the first time humans moved something in space. DART means Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and it did really well, maybe even better than
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Starlink (SpaceX) Satellites Do Fancy Dance Moves to Stay Safe, But There’s a Worrying Problem! SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have been doing impressive maneuvers to avoid bumping into other spacecraft and space junk. In just six months, from December 2022 to May 2023, they had to swerve over 25,000 times! That’s twice as many moves compared
Russia stated Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) coming month to bring home 3 astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a small meteoroid. The Russian space company, Roscosmos, made the announcement after examining the flight-worthiness of the Soyuz MS-22 staff capsule docked
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OneWeb, the London-based satellite firm that was once on the verge of bankruptcy and then partially saved by the British government, is to merge with Paris-headquartered Eutelsat. The French company (Eutelsat) already owned a 23% stake in the UK firm. As stated by the operators, the joint mission will provide both companions a better opportunity
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Lynk Global reports that current pre-commercial tests on its fifth satellite in orbit linked it to countless unmodified devices, including mobile phones and IoT devices. Lynk’s innovative approach to communication Lynk claimed in a Tuesday release that the tests were performed over five nations– the Bahamas, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United
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In a test of an anti-satellite missile on Monday, November 15, Russia demolished one of its older satellites. Members of the International Space Station were obliged to seek refuge in their spacecraft in the immediate aftermath of the test because the impact produced a cloud of space debris in an area of orbit that the