Virgin Galactic 01 carried 13 research payloads and three crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy – congratulations to all the team. And congratulazioni ai membri dell’equipaggio Galactic 01. Virgin Galactic was part of the revival of commercial space when they won the XPrize a suborbital flight. Virgin ... Read more
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) is issuing this Other Transaction Authority (OT) solicitation to establish the foundation for Tranche 2 (T2) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The PWSA’s operational utility is predicated on the availability of a ubiquitous data and communications Transport Layer provided by a proliferated constellation of relatively small, mass-producible ... Read more
China is planning dozens of missions to the moon to first build a research base and then convert it into a multifunctional international moonbase. They plan to employ 3D printing and production of bricks from the lunar regolith. More than 100 researchers from domestic universities, research institutes and space contractors took part in the Extraterrestrial ... Read more
NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is returning on September 24, 2023 with 250 grams of the Bennu asteroid. The samples were collected in 2020 but it has taken this long for the mission to return. China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang’e 6 mission. ... Read more