NASA has formed a new strategy review team tasked with evaluating potential architecture changes to the Mars Sample Return Program, an initiative to bring scientifically selected samples from Mars to Earth with the
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The National Reconnaissance Office is enhancing its data-sharing capabilities by expanding its satellite network with over 100 additional payloads by the end of the year. The expansion is intended to support warfighters,
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The Department of the Air Force through the Space Force Rapid Capabilities Office has issued a request for information for advisory and assistance services. According to the notice issued on Sam.gov Tuesday, the SpRCO
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NASA has relaunched a framework that seeks to modernize acquisition processes and advance innovation across the space agency. The agency said Wednesday the NASA Acquisition Innovation Launchpad framework, or NAIL, was introduced
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has released a report outlining the findings and results from OSC’s Consolidated Pathfinder project that seeks to inform the development of the
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The Department of Defense has released an updated directive establishing policy and assigning responsibilities for DOD space-related activities in accordance with several strategies and policies, including the National Space Policy, the U.S.
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NASA has sent into space its Europa Clipper spacecraft for an anticipated seven-year journey seeking to probe life-sustainment signs on Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. The spacecraft lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon
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The Low-Cost Optical Terminal, or LCOT, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was able to send its first laser communications uplink to the agency’s recently concluded TeraByte Infrared
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The U.S. Space Force and Boeing will work together to enable the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to perform a series of aerobraking maneuvers to alter its orbit around Earth while using minimal
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The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to perform in-flight testing of prototype antennas and radio receivers in late 2025 and early 2026 to evaluate their capability to provide multiorbit satellite connectivity, Breaking
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