NASA has awarded its $1.8 billion Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS) to Ascend Aerospace and Technology LLC of Cape Canaveral, Florida, for space flight ...

Orbital Operations plans to use its seed funding to grow its small team (above) and work on cryogenic propellant management technologies and a rocket engine. Credit: Orbital Operations WASHINGTON — ...

"This document was prepared by the United Space Alliance under contract to the Mechanical, Booster, and Maintenance Systems Branch, Systems Division, NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, ...

AI use in launch vehicles is being studied as a way to support higher launch rates, improve reliability, manage maintenance, and coordinate space traffic as global access to orbit increases ...

One keynote speaker, Kavya Manyapu, said her first lunar exploration project was done through her Ph.D. at UND. Now, she is working to bring people back to the moon. Kavya Manyapu, lead of development ...

Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested spectrum make real-time decision-making from the ground impossible when you ...

Credit: SpaceX Following a pair of unsuccessful attempts to test its upgraded Starship vehicle in space, SpaceX is preparing another ship for launch as early as May 21 from the newly incorporated city ...