NASA’s Lunar Gateway getting HALO and PPE
A big announcement about the NASA Lunar Gateway came out on Friday June 5th, 2020. NASA officially awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) for the preliminary design and development of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO).
NASA press release about SpaceX Crew Dragon
NASA Administrator, Sen. Cruz, Rep. Babin to Discuss Crew Dragon Test Flight at Briefing in Houston Coverage of Expedition 63 flight control team with Flight Director Zebulon Scoville during SpaceX DM-2 launch in Mission Control Center station flight control room...
NASA spends $3M on LASVEGAS, wait what??
NASA awarded some pretty odd contracts in the past. NASA also likes catchy acronyms for their projects. The Southwest Research Institute just got $3 million bucks from NASA for LASVEGAS development. No, not Las Vegas the place for high stakes gambling. LASVEGAS stands...
Reflections of 2020 Satellite Elon Musk
Elon Musk keynote at SATELLITE 2020 Elon Musk is perhaps the world’s most polarizing person. Most people are not polarizing. Most polarizing people, you either love them, or you hate them. Elon Musk is one of very few people who is so polarizing that not only can you...
JAXA Martian Moon eXploration MMX Mission
About The Author Bill founded WestEastSpace.com after returning to China in 2019 to be supportive of his wife's career. Moving to China meant leaving the US rocket/launch industry behind, as USA and China don't see eye to eye on cooperation in space. Bill has an...
The Electron goes reusable.
No, it's not a high budget Mission Impossible action movie, but it could have been. Tom Cruise wasn't piloting a helicopter that grabbed a rocket falling back to the Earth. Instead, a crew wearing black Rocket Lab t-shirts with the words "recovery team" written on the...
A Setback, Palapa N1 Failure
A Setback The recent failure of a Long March-3B rocket carrying the Palapa-N1 satellite is a setback for the Chinese space industry, with this being the second launch failure in a month following the failure of a Long March-7A. However, the launch failure also...
China Space in 2019
2019 in China—Year in ReviewIt’s been a busy year in the Chinese space industry, one in which we have seen record-breaking valuations and funding rounds, new company creation and increased internationalization, and perhaps most importantly, a brilliant combination of...
Why Philippines needs a Space Agency?
Sketch of Philippines's satellites that are currently in orbitlaunch of Diwata-2 videoLaunching space development efforts furtherOne of PhilSA’s immediate tasks is the unification of all space-related endeavors that are currently in progress on the national level. For...
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Cygnus resupply spacecraft at ISS
Cygnus is a unmanned cargo delivery Spacecraft supporting the International Space Station Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) developed the Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft to provide cargo delivery services under a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation...
PRESS RELEASE 20-020 NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record
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