These twin spacecraft for the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) heliophysics mission were designed, built, integrated, and tested by Rocket Lab for the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA. The spacecraft, known as Blue and Gold...
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle is the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 190 satellites to orbit for commercial and Government partners, including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, DARPA and the NRO. Rocket Lab also delivers proven suborbital...
Twin satellites of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission, launched by NASA on 25 October, promise to provide scientists with three-dimensional views of the Sun and solar wind. The satellites also will help with exploring the origin, evolution, and effects of coronal mass ...
LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private space firm SpaceX launched two new Earth-observing satellites for NASA and five commercial communications satellites for Iridium on a used Falcon 9 rocket in a ride-share mission on Tuesday. The rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 4E (...
LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private space firm SpaceX launched two new Earth-observing satellites for NASA and five commercial communications satellites for Iridium on a used Falcon 9 rocket in a ride-share mission on Tuesday. ...
The stations will be used to transmit multichannel telephone, telegraph, and television signals across the Atlantic with the help of active and passive satellites which are scheduled to be launched by NASA in 1962 and 1963. Surveys are underway to determine favorable locations for the high‐...
New Horizons: transmitted color images of the dwarf planet Pluto and its Charon [source:NASA]. InSight: launched in May 2018, this probe will investigate the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity [source: NASA]. These probes have made many invaluable scientific discoveries. Next, we'll look at...
Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two types: small and inexpensive for low earth orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. At Astranis we built a new class of satellite— small, powerful satellites for high orbits with the latest in digital processing technology. Astranis has mor...
Rocket Lab launched two toaster-size satellites for NASA on Sunday, the first of four "cubesats" designed to provide hourly updates of typhoon and hurricane development in a bid to improve forecasting and provide new insights into how tropical storms evolve and intensify. ...
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