Category: Space and Tech
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NASA Awards Multiple Construction Contracts
NASA has awarded 12 construction contracts for work to be performed predominantly at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, and at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Each contractor has been awarded an 8(a) small business set-aside, indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will be accessed using firm-fixed price task orders. Every contract…
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NASA Statement on New Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Appointment
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the appointment of Dr. Laurie Leshin as director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. “NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a storied history of defying what was once thought impossible in the field of space exploration. In this new era…
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SPACEX WATCH LIVE: COSMO-SKYMED SECOND GENERATION FM2 MISSION
SpaceX is targeting today, Thursday, January 27 for launch of the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 6:11 p.m. EST, or 23:11 UTC, and a back up opportunity is available on Friday, January 28…
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12 Companies to Provide Venture Class Launch Services for NASA
NASA has selected 12 companies to provide launch services for the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions, providing new opportunities for science and technology payloads and fostering a growing U.S. commercial launch market. Award selections are: ABL Space Systems of El Segundo, California Astra Space Inc. of Alameda, California Blue…
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NASA Spinoffs Help Fight Coronavirus, Clean Pollution, Grow Food, More
NASA’s mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research – which show up in daily life. The agency’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives. “The value of NASA is not…
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What If Humanity Was A Type IV Civilization? | Unveiled
Unveiled What would humanity be like if it was Level 4 on the Kardashev Scale? In this video, Unveiled takes a dramatic trip into the future to discover how the human race would change and evolve if it ever hoped to be a Type IV Civilization. We’re talking a whole universe’s worth of power and…
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NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes with Day of Remembrance
NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 27. This year’s NASA Day of Remembrance also marks 55 years since…
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New comet could brighten the skies in May 2022
Designated C/2021 O3 it is an Oort cloud comet that was discovered on 26 July 2021 by the Pan-STARRS sky survey. It will come to perihelion on 21 April 2022 at 0.287 AU (42.9 million km). from the Sun. It might reach apparent magnitude 5-7 by late April 2022, but will only be 15 degrees from the Sun.[3][4] C/2021 O3 will make its closest approach to Earth…
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SPACE 11 CORP ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF NANORACKS AS PARTNER FOR OUTER SPACE COLLABORATIONS ON MOVIES, TV SERIES AND MORE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — It was revealed today that Space 11 Corp, an aerospace company pioneering outer space entertainment productions including film, TV, sports and special events, founded by veteran movie producer Andrea Iervolino and run by its Vice President and Head of Operations, MMA legend and movie producer John Lewis, is developing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Nanoracks, a Voyager…
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Mysterious Dusty Object Baffles Astronomers
 In the fall of 2015, there was a lot of buzz around a star that’s located some 1,000 light-years away from us. Seemingly ordinary KIC 8462852 also known as Tabby’s Star had displayed some strange and dramatic dips in brightness. There was plenty of speculation after astronomers announced this star and its up-and-down light patterns.…