TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Orbit Fab, a startup developing infrastructure for in-space refueling of spacecraft, will start offering hydrazine for satellites in geostationary orbit as soon as 2025 at a price of $20 million. The company announced Aug. 30 its plans to start offering refueling services for GEO spacecraft using a […]
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ARCADIA, Calif. — A SpaceX cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station will now launch no earlier than July 11, a delay of more than a month after engineers identified the source of elevated hydrazine readings in the spacecraft. In a statement late June 13, NASA said that agency […]
WASHINGTON — Two startups are partnering on technology that they hope can jump-start the market for in-space refueling of satellites. Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems announced Feb. 23 that they are teaming up to provide the capability to refuel Benchmark’s thrusters with hydrogen peroxide propellant provided by an Orbit […]
Three minutes of terrific — "I can, and have, watched those videos for hours." Eric Berger - Feb 22, 2021 11:10 pm UTC Panoramic image of Mars taken by Perseverance on February 20, 2021.Never before, in all of our millions of years, have humans directly observed a spacecraft landing on another planet. Until now. On…
By Leah Crane An image from Cassini of Saturn’s icy moon RheaNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute A mystery on Saturn’s moon Rhea may have finally been solved. When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew past the planet’s second-largest moon before the end of its mission in 2017, it spotted a mysterious compound. It turns […]
WASHINGTON — A recent NASA mission successfully demonstrated the performance of a non-toxic “green” propellant, creating opportunities for its use in a wide range of future spacecraft. NASA flew the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) spacecraft as one of the payloads on the Space Test Program 2 mission that launched […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Dawn Aerospace announced Dec. 9 that it received approval from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to begin flying the Dawn Mk-II Aurora, a 4.8-meter-long test vehicle the company developed as part of its campaign to develop a spaceplane to conduct multiple daily flights from conventional […]
A researcher at Aerojet Rocketdyne examines a container of a low-toxicity propellant during preparation for flight testing. Aerojet’s Redmond facility will be involved in a follow-up project to develop a new kind of hybrid “green” propellant. (Aerojet Rocketdyne Photo) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s […]