NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis and Lunar Base program, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations, autonomous navigation, and cislunar communication capabilities while continuing to characterize the
NASA researchers recently subjected a new wing design, which appears long and thin with a lightweight structural design, to a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found encouraged them about the wing’s potential, even as they pushed it beyond its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Armor Reinforcement