We begin today talking about the weather. Well not the actual weather itself, but the hardware needed to track it. Recently, NASA selected Lockheed Martin to build he nation’s next generation weather satellite constellation, Geostationary…
July 17, 2024
Voyager Space has entered into an agreement with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to help develop an airlock for the Mars Transit Vehicle, also referred to as Deep Space Transport. It’s a 12-month study that…
June 17, 2024
There are a lot of regulatory boxes you need to check to get your space project underway. This can be hard for companies with smaller budgets and legal resources. To help, the firm Aegis Space…
June 17, 2024
George Mason University will be the site of the recently approved Landolt NASA Space Mission. The mission will kick off in 2029 by launching a light into the sky that will help scientists determine the…
June 17, 2024
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA are collaborating with eight American universities for the second year of the Mission Concept Program. The program provides universities with assistance in helping students gain skills…
June 17, 2024
The professional organization AFCEA International has launched its 139 national chapter right in Orlando, Florida. It’s meant to help facilitate connections for members of the space industry with government agencies. It’s even calling it the…
May 20, 2024
The more nations launch satellites into space, the more crowded the orbit layers become. Especially in the burgeoning low earth orbit. NASA has a Space Environment Sustainability Advisory Board to help guide policy for an…
May 20, 2024
You hear a lot about zero trust controls in government tech circles, especially here on Federal News Network. Could this approach to cybersecurity which requires constant verification before access to a system, be applied to…
April 22, 2024
So we’re trying to send folks back to the moon and potentially mars. However, the longer people are out there, the longer they could potentially come down with something. Yes much like the fisherman and…
April 22, 2024
The concept of nuclear power kinda makes sense for space travel doesn’t it? Taking a small amount of material and being able to harness energy from it to create a vast amount of heat, electricity,…
April 22, 2024
Beginning today with the ISS National Lab. It’s the government funded organization which manages all non-NASA research and investigations. It recently announced a new funding opportunity for in-space production applications, which can leverage the unique…
April 22, 2024
I had the pleasure of hosting a panel on the potential uses of AI in space featuring: MAJ Chris Krueger, USA – PhD Student, Designing Trustworthy AI Systems Fellow, The George Washington University Ms. Chandra…
March 25, 2024
NASA has made it’s latest grant awards for its Bridge Program, ran buy the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. The program aims to improve diversity in the science and engineering communities, as well as NASA’s workforce itself.…
February 27, 2024
You may remember our interview last year with Collins Aerospace. A subset of RTX, it’s working with NASA to develop the next generation spacesuit. Well the company has hit a new testing milestone, recently demonstrating its…
February 27, 2024