WASHINGTON — DARPA has selected 14 companies, ranging from small startups to established aerospace corporations, to participate in a study on developing commercial lunar infrastructure. DARPA announced Dec. 5 that 14 companies will collaborate over the next seven months on its 10-Year Lunar Architecture, or LunA-10, study. The goal of […]
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is kicking off a study to develop an “analytical framework” to guide development of integrated lunar infrastructure over the next decade. DARPA announced the 10-Year Lunar Architecture, or LunA-10, project Aug. 15, seeking ideas from both potential developers or lunar power, communications, […]
WASHINGTON — NASA and DARPA have selected Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft to demonstrate nuclear propulsion technologies in Earth orbit later this decade. The two government agencies announced July 26 that they had reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin to develop the spacecraft for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile […]
a robotic rover on Mars holds thumbnails of PDF documents JPL, meet PDF. While NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is renowned for piloting rovers on Mars and deploying spacecraft to study planets in the solar system, JPL’s latest project is more down-to-earth: assembling the world’s largest publicly available archive of […]
WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on June 12 launched four satellites for a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit. The satellites flew to orbit on the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare. They are part of the Blackjack experiment the agency started in 2017 to prove out the utility of […]
WASHINGTON — Greg Kuperman, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, worries that innovations emerging from the commercial space industry will never reach potential customers in the U.S. military. A key reason for that, Kuperman told SpaceNews, is that discussions about next-generation technologies, particularly in […]
WASHINGTON — BAE Systems won a $7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop AI tools to automate the tracking of data collected by military satellites. The company on May 25 announced it will work with AI specialists OmniTeq and AIMdyn on the DARPA project, known […]
ST. LOUIS — Umbra won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to demonstrate novel collection techniques using synthetic aperture radar satellites, the company announced May 22. DARPA, the Pentagon’s research and development arm, awarded Umbra a cost-sharing agreement under a new program called Digital Radar Image Formation […]