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Lockheed Martin wins contract to supply geostationary lightning mappers

PARIS – Lockheed Martin won a $297.1 million contract to develop lightning mappers for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s…

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FAA fines SpaceX for launch license violations

The FAA announced its intent to fine SpaceX more than $633,000 for violating its launch licenses on two occasions in…

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Astronomers Have Found a Star with a Hot Jupiter and a Cold Super Jupiter in Orbit

Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD 118203 (Liesma). In 2006,…

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Rivada says Lockheed deal boosts investor confidence in constellation

Rivada Space Networks CEO Declan Ganley said Sept. 17 the sale of satellite supplier Terran Orbital to Lockheed Martin is…

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Future Gravitational Wave Observatories Could See the Earliest Black Hole Mergers in the Universe

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves…

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Measuring Moon Dust to Fight Air Pollution

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) While astronaut Gene Cernan was on the lunar surface during…

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NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems…

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NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA

Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton,…

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SpaceX launches 2 European navigation satellites, lands rocket (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17) and then landed safely, acing its 22nd…

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NASA Marshall to Present 2024 Small Business Awards Sept. 19

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: NASA NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama,…

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