NASA has awarded a contract to Omitron Inc. for the acquisition of orbital safety analysis services, which provide for critical protection of NASA spaceflight assets and astronaut lives. This indefinite-delivery contract is valued at approximately $23.5 million over a five-year period of performance and entails conjunction assessment screening services for all NASA uncrewed spacecraft, support
German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe’s first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport.
The Orbital Clarity Challenge — the sixth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a collaborative effort between NASA’s Heliophysics Division, Flight Opportunities program, and Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. The Heliophysics Division studies space weather, including how it heats and expands Earth’s outer atmosphere during intense solar activity, creating orbital drag through atmospheric density changes. The
A Katalyst Space robot that was launched to grab a space telescope and lift it to a higher orbit spun out of control after a series of malfunctions, NASA and the company said today. The company is trying to stabilize the spacecraft using backup systems before NASA decides if the mission can continue. This is
Television City and Orbital Studios have partnered to bring a new virtual production studio to the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. The new LED volume will be based at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, Television City, and reflects Orbital’s strong commitment to providing the best virtual production experiences for productions of all sizes, budgets and creative aspirations.
The military routinely sends satellites to fly alongside rival vehicles and assess their capabilities, but the U.S. military increasingly sees expanding this type of reconnaissance as a challenge best addressed by the private sector. That’s why two space startups, True Anomaly and Rocket Lab, last week completed a rendezvous mission for the U.S. Space Force
