Space Force considers asking satellite firms to host payloads for tactical ISR
Col. Dennis Birchenough, senior materiel leader at Space System Command (SSC) Environmental and Tactical Surveillance Acquisition Delta, said Monday that the Space Force might not be ready to buy services directly like a typical customer of commercial operators
Follow CAPSTONE’s Four-Month Journey to the Moon in Real Time
During the next four months, CAPSTONE – short for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – will rack up serious mileage hurtling through deep space on its traverse from Earth to the Moon.
The first episode of Views from Space
Dig deeper into the space economy with a new Public.com Live series presented by Terran Orbital.
The first episode of Views from Space is hosted by Kinsey Grant. It features McKinsey & Company aerospace and defense experts Chris Daehnick and Jess Harrington. Listen to the replay to learn how the space industry could evolve in the next decade.
NASA, Partner to Demonstrate First-Time In-Orbit Docking of Two CubeSats
Following a successful launch to space on May 25, two small spacecraft comprising NASA’s CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) mission will set out to perform for the first time a series of maneuvers that leads to the docking of three-unit, or 3U, CubeSats.
Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon Completes Sixth Orbit Raise for NASA’s CAPSTONE Mission to The Moon
This sixth burn was originally scheduled to be two burns, but Rocket Lab’s space systems team determined the HyperCurie engine would be capable of performing a single maneuver to accomplish the same delta-v, so combined the two.
Microwave-size spacecraft launches to test new orbit between Earth and the moon
The mission, called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, and known as CAPSTONE, lifted off the launchpad Tuesday at 5:55 a.m. ET. The CubeSat launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.