Category: Space and Tech
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NASA Announces Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards
NASA is leading an effort, working with the Department of Energy (DOE), to advance space nuclear technologies. The government team has selected three reactor design concept proposals for a nuclear thermal propulsion system. The reactor is a critical component of a nuclear thermal engine, which would utilize high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel. The contracts, to…
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NASA Launches Entrepreneurs Challenge to Identify Innovative Ideas
NASA is announcing its 2021 Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants that will lead to new instruments and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science mission goals. The agency’s Science Mission Directorate is seeking novel ideas that focus on priority areas for the commercial sector. The Entrepreneurs Challenge…
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Everyday Astronaut: Blue Origin VS Virgin Galactic // How do they compare?
Everyday Astronaut The time has arrived! We’re at the start of a new era of human spaceflight, commercial suborbital rides to the edge of space! And what’s crazy is there isn’t just ONE company doing it, but two companies are entering service at almost the exact same time! Of course we’re talking about Richard Branson’s…
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Virgin Galactic Successfully Completes First Fully Crewed Spaceflight
Fourth Spaceflight Tests Private Astronaut and Research Experience First In-Flight Livestream Brings Spaceflight Experience to Audiences Around the World Virgin Galactic today announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space, completing the Company’s fourth rocket-powered spaceflight. Today’s flight was the 22nd test flight of VSS Unity and the first test flight with a fully crewed cabin,…
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LIVE: Virgin Galactic launches Richard Branson to space on Unity 22
Virgin Galactic is launching Richard Branson and five other crew members to space on the Unity 22 mission. VSS Unity is expected to take off after 6 am Mountain. The exact timing of the flight will be fluid. NASASpaceflight.com’s Jack Beyer will be live in the field from Spaceport America, New Mexico. Coverage:…
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CAE and Volocopter Partner to Create the Global Air Taxi Pilot Workforce of Tomorrow
MONTREAL and BRUCHSAL, Germany — CAE (NYSE: CAE) (TSX: CAE), a global leader in aviation training, and Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), announced today the signing of a strategic partnership, subject to definitive agreement, to develop, certify, and deploy an innovative pilot training program for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) operations. A first in the industry, this…
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NC, Wisconsin, NY Students to Hear from Astronauts on Space Station
Students from three states will hear from astronauts from three different countries aboard the International Space Station next week. The Earth-to-space calls will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. On Monday, July 12, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will answer prerecorded video questions from North Carolina students beginning…
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NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract
NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. NASA and its commercial and international partners are building Gateway to support…
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Dedrone Protects Preakness 146 from Drone Threats
Return of Live Events Signals New Era in Event Airspace Security SAN FRANCISCO — Dedrone, the market leader in airspace security, today announces the successful implementation of Dedrone’s counter-drone technology at Preakness 146. Dedrone worked with the security team from 1/ST and the Maryland Jockey Club, owners of Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes, in the…
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Hyundai and RISD Research Future of Cities (video)
Hyundai Motor Group and Rhode Island School of Design or RISD, announced a research collaboration exploring new relationships between advanced technologies, public environments and personal experiences. These interactions are defined as “adaptive ecologies”: the technological interfaces that exist between beings… such as living organisms and machines, and their surroundings, the vast spatial and material…