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 [...]
Industry Related News: United States – July, 2020: The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready to add new satellites to their orbiting collection of 26 crafts traveling around our planet. The Galileo project is intended to serve as “the world’s most precise satellite navigation system” and adding new satellites from their [...]
Industry Related News: United States – June, 2021: NASA recently put their new Lunar IceCube satellite through an extensive round of thermal chamber testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Maryland. The cube was assembled at Morehead State University Space Center in Kentucky, built by over 60 students and faculty members. The [...]
Industry Related News: United States – June, 2021: The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as Webb or JWST, will completely alter the way we view and understand space. With over 20 years of development and significantly more power than the Hubble, this revolutionary telescope offers exciting possibilities. The hope is that it will [...]
Industry Related News: United States – March, 2021: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed the newest weather satellite in their Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series, the GOES-R Series. The latest addition is titled the GOES-T and is designed to rotate at the same speed and direction as the Earth’s rotation to [...]
Industry Related News: United States – March, 2021: The team at NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics laboratory have been working for years on the development of DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). This project is referred to as a kinetic impactor and is meant to disrupt and ultimately change the trajectory of [...]
Industry Related News: United States – January, 2021: The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter launched aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on July 30, 2020 and is set to arrive on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021. This is the culmination of years of planning, preparation, and extensive Mars thermal testing and environmental testing from [...]
Industry Related News: United States – December, 2020: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has endured rigorous testing throughout the back half of 2020, hitting major milestones like its tower deployment, environmental and thermal tests, and now a deployment and tension test for the telescope’s sunshield. They are hitting their targets in order to launch [...]
