By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 22 August 2023 WASHINGTON — The billionaire backing a series of private astronaut missions with SpaceX says the first of those flights will likely be delayed to some time in 2024. In a recent interview with the CNBC Manifest Space podcast, Jared Isaacman said
By Christian Davenport, Published by The Washington Post, 27 July 2023 If successful, the technology could dramatically cut the travel time to Mars Lockheed Martin on Wednesday won a contract to build a nuclear thermal rocket engine, a key technology long coveted by both NASA and the Pentagon that could
The Blue Alchemist project aims to produce solar cells from lunar materials. (Blue Origin Photo) By Alan Boyle, Published by GeekWire, 25 July 2023 Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won $34.7 million in funding from NASA to support the development of a system that could produce solar cells
By Chris Riotta, Published by Defense One, 13 July 2023 The service's weeks-old Commercial Space Office serves as a hub for several efforts to accelerate acquisition of next-gen tech. The federal government is using innovative procurement techniques to equip NASA, the Space Force, and other agencies with the next generation of
By Chris Riottam, Published by Nextgov, 12 July 2023 From humankind’s first-ever lunar space station to an unmanned test-bed for emerging technologies that lives in space, the government is using innovative techniques to buy and build the next generation of space technology. An emerging technological space race is launching into
By Rachel Schike, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The United States and China, two of the world's largest superpowers, are locked in a battle to achieve supremacy in the final frontier — space. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has stepped forward to challenge the U.S.
By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 17 April 2023 Time was, nobody gave much thought to the town of Boca Chica, a little community at the toe of Texas, hard up against the Gulf of Mexico. Distinguished mostly by its proximity to the city of Brownsville, the county seat of
By Passant Rabie, Published by Gizmodo, 13 March 2023 Japan's Pale Blue water-based propulsion system successfully completed its initial test on board the nanosatellite. Japanese company Pale Blue pulled off the first test of its experimental water vapor propulsion system, flying a nano-satellite for the first time in space using
