Astrobotic and ispace failed in their attempts, but Intuitive Machines succeeded, setting a craft named Odysseus down near the lunar south pole this past February. And then there's the elephant in the room: satellite megaconstellations. Chief among them is SpaceX's Starlink broadband system, ...
At a technical level, it tells you three things about what it is you’re interested in – whether it’s your drone, your autonomous vehicle, or the car you’re testing: Position: the place on the earth of your payload or vehicle. Navigation: data on your position, the position you ...
As Jeff Foust at Space Newsreportedearlier this month, Astra just laid off a quarter of its workforce and reassigned others to focus on satellite propulsion instead of development of Rocket 4. In better news, Terran Orbital is building satellite buses for the Space Development Agency’s Transport...
The last scenario is centimeter-level indoor location service. "Your satellite positioning like Beidou and GPS cannot function in an underground parking lot. So, we need to find an alternative solution," said Miao. "Your navigation app will go on working in buildings with 5.5G s...
It was the first mission for the spacecraft, which is partially reusable. A mission payload handover ceremony was held by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) in Beijing on Thursday (Oct. 24) revealing the contents of the spacecraft. China's retrievable Shijian-19 satellite landed...
to orbit. The first stage propels the rocket into orbit and handles safely returning and landing the rocket on Earth. The second stage carries the payload into orbit but is lost on reentry. Falcon 9 can launch a Dragon capsule, a single large satellite or multiple small satellites into ...
Under the Mars Network plan, the DSN will interact with a constellation of six microsatellites and one large Marsat satellite placed in low Mars orbit. These six microsats are relay satellites for spacecraft on or near the surface of the planet, and they will allow more data to come back ...
reliability and assurance standards close, if not identical, to those of standard aviation. These pressures also appear to be playing out in the small satellite market as we see more and more commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-space qualified components in satellite payloads and platforms....
(CLPS) missions where they purchase delivery services from companies like Astrobotic to put NASA science and technology payloads on the lunar surface. NASA is just one of many customers on these missions and Astrobotic has alistof everything that’s aboard. CLPS is managed for NASA by the ...
The fall meeting of NASA’s Lunar Science Innovation Consortium will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Pittsburgh PA, home to Astrobotic, one of the companies that has Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts with NASA. Its first lander, Peregrine, is ready to go as soon as the ...