The Pentagon’s campaign to break from decades of cost-plus contracting is reshaping how it buys everything from missiles and satellites — and now it’s touching a critical corner of the
The Pentagon’s campaign to break from decades of cost-plus contracting is reshaping how it buys everything from missiles and satellites — and now it’s touching a critical corner of the
TAMPA, Fla. — Open Cosmos shed more light on its proposed sovereign broadband constellation for Europe March 2, branding the Ka-band network ConnectedCosmos while leaving how it will meet mid-2026
TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency announced up to 100 million euros ($118 million) in funding March 2 for projects promising to accelerate the convergence of satellite and terrestrial
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WASHINGTON — NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget reconciliation bill as companies continue positioning themselves to bid
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and it may be about to change everything. But researchers at the German Aerospace Centre have been asking a question: does
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations—low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with
WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data
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Biofilms, shown here, are structured communities of microorganisms that could be important to space exploration. — University of Houston University of Houston microbiologist Madhan Tirumalai is part of NASA’s Analysis






