Aerovironment, Dragoon and two Ukrainian firms have been selected for Project Artemis, meant to rapidly develop, prototype ...

Jason Bates is a Longview High School graduate and Avionics and Integration Specialist at Firefly Aerospace, which recently put a lander on the moon.

Behind both missions — Intuitive Machine’s IM-1 mission in February 2024 and Firefly’s Blue ... to develop a lunar vehicle in ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — There’s a sense of urgency among NASA and its partners aiming for the first human spaceflight of the Artemis program. Artemis II is slated to launch four astronauts on ...

The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside. The private space company Rocket Lab is on track to launch the first of its new ...

WESH 2’S MEGAN MORIARTY GOT AN UP CLOSE LOOK AT THE BIG PIECES OF THE ARTEMIS TWO MISSION ... ENCAPSULATING THOSE SOLAR ARRAYS IN THE FINAL FAIRING OF THE VEHICLE. AND IT WON’T LOOK LIKE ...

These tests were conducted in late 2024 and, following completion, SPHEREx was shipped to Vandenberg for final integration with the Falcon 9 upper stage and payload fairing encapsulation.

Work continues on the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building where the Orion spacecraft has been mated to the European Service Module.

The forward segments of the Artemis II boosters are comprised of three parts, an avionics housing forward skirt, a frustum housing motors and an aerodynamic nose cone fairing. The twin solid rocket ...

“IM-2 has to be a lot more accurate than IM-1,” said Intuitive Machines’ navigation lead ... The space agency has long said that its Artemis and CLPS moon programs are designed to lay groundwork, ...

March is looking particularly busy as well and so far Artemis has tracked over $1.41 billion of new and settled catastrophe bond issuance for this month, in just a matter of days. But, it’s the ...

The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and is related to NASA’s bigger-picture Artemis program. The aerospace company said of its IM-2 mission ...