Industry Related News: United States – June, 2020: Tenacity is the first space-worthy craft in the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser line of spaceplanes, and they have just announced the latest addition to its design. The team at SNC has developed Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles in order to protect the craft on [...]
Industry Related News: United States – May, 2020: The booming landscape of solar energy conversion just hit an important new milestone in Sydney, Australia as Professor Anita Ho-Baillie and her team successfully passed the rigorous thermal testing of the International Electrotechnical Commission on their perovskite solar cell project. The metal halide perovskite compound [...]
Industry Related News: United States – April, 2020: The ongoing struggle to find solutions for the pandemic issue of COVID-19 is illustrated vividly by the trials and tribulations of the Yale’s Clinical Virology Lab during their development of a proper and regulated test that matched that of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). [...]
Industry Related News: United States – March, 2020: After a successful environmental test in Ohio, NASA's Orion Spacecraft has returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to resume the final stage of tests and analysis to prepare the craft for its first Artemis mission. The Orion craft was tested with a variety of [...]
Industry Related News: United States – December, 2019: NASA's Orion Spacecraft has been reassembled in Ohio and is entering the vacuum chamber this week to begin its rounds of spacecraft thermal testing. The craft is set to undergo a long series of thermal testing to verify that its components can withstand the rigors [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (November, 2019): The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover has been in early development since 2014 with a launch schedule leading to a 2020 departure. The rover now finds itself in France and will enter a thermal testing chamber to verify that its components can withstand the rigors [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (October, 2019): On Friday, October 18th, NASA announced that the Mars 2020 rover is currently going through clean-room testing and quality checks with JPL's Engineering team. The team is currently ensuring that all components, which were assembled earlier this year at JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility, are in [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (September, 2019): The UK Space Agency announced Tuesday at the UK Space Conference 2019 that it would be working more closely with the Australian Space Agency to increase research and co-development of the hypersonic rocket engine dubbed SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) currently in development from Oxfordshire-based [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (August, 2019): The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover has been in early development since 2014 with a launch schedule leading to a 2020 departure. Teams at Airbus Defense and Space’s facility in Stevenage, England, north of London, assembled the Rosalind Franklin rover in a special ultra-clean factory [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (July, 2019): NASA recently announced that the Orion Spacecraft, which is slated to make its journey to the Moon in 2024, is about to enter its thermal testing. The thermal testing will take place at Plum Brook Station in a custom newly created Spacecraft testing chamber from [...]
