Industry Related News: United States – August 2022: While many have seen the recent images courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA is reflecting on everything that led up to this moment - including the unforeseen hurdles. When testing the telescope, one major problem was immediately encountered. The telescope itself was simply too [...]
Industry Related News: United States – July 2022: NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) JPSS-2 (Joint Polar Satellite System) recently went through the organization’s thermal vacuum chamber, passing an incredibly important milestone in testing and development. This craft has been designed to provide information intended to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts, analyzing [...]
Industry Related News: United States – June 2022: Designed to detect planets the size of Earth, ESA’s Plato is composed of 26 cameras that will perform thorough observations of neighboring stars. This array of cameras has been designed to pick up on any tiny variations of light caused by said exoplanets, providing ESA [...]
Industry Related News: United States – April, 2022: With launch coming up in August of 2022, the Psyche spacecraft has been thoroughly tested against the conditions it will be greeted by in space. From extreme temperatures to violent launches, the conditions are no small feat. Luckily, NASA’s thermal chamber was up to [...]
Industry Related News: United States – March, 2022: According to Aerospace Testing International, "space transportation company Momentus has recently completed the thermal vacuum testing of its first space vehicle called Vigoride." This testing phase comes in advance of it's proposed upcoming launch in June with the goal of eventually offering "in-space infrastructure [...]
Industry Related News: United States – January, 2022: The Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft, or SWOT, is one of NASA’s latest attempts to garner a better understanding of our planet and the potential dangers of climate change. Scheduled to launch in November of 2022, the satellite is a collaboration between NASA [...]
Industry Related News: United States – October, 2021: One of NASA’s latest projects, the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer, has been undergoing continuous thermal vacuum testing for the past few months. This important project is part of ongoing efforts to measure waves in space-time that result from collisions, as well as the continued exploration [...]
Industry Related News: United States – September, 2021: Euclid is the ESA’s (European Space Agency) most recent project to undergo extensive thermal testing ahead of its launch in 2022. The element that was tested, the telescope, will be used to study dark matter and dark energy once it reaches space. While many [...]
Industry Related News: United States – August, 2021: Psyche, an asteroid located in one of the largest asteroid belts between Jupiter and Mars, could hold secrets to the development of planets. This specific asteroid contains a large amount of iron and nickel, and NASA believes it could be the start of a [...]
Industry Related News: United States – July, 2021: With it being one of the most promising locations to learn more about life outside of Earth, Europa (one of Jupiter’s roughly 79 moons) has become the center of attention for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). When prepping for a potential mission to reach [...]
