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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory installs LSST Camera on telescope: 3/12/2025 3:02:43 PM; NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera on the telescope.
NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Rocket City Competition: 3/12/2025 2:55:02 PM; The Rocket City Regional – Alabama’s annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Regional Competition – is scheduled for Friday, March 14, through Saturday, March 15, at the Von Braun Center South Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. FIRST Robotics is a global robotics competition for students in grades 9-12.
NASA Glenn Accepts Aviation Award for “NEAT” Facility: 3/12/2025 12:11:06 PM; Each year, Aviation Week (AW) Network recognizes a limited number of innovators who achieve extraordinary accomplishments in the global aerospace arena with AW’s prestigious Laureate Award.
Sikorsky Unveils S-92® Phase IV Main Gearbox: 3/11/2025 2:46:01 PM; Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), unveiled the highly anticipated S-92® Phase IV main gearbox, a transformative innovation that sets a new benchmark for reliability, performance and safety in the commercial helicopter industry.
Thales delivers the Dual Travelling Wave Tubes for the ASTRA 1Q satellite built by Thales Alenia Space: 3/11/2025 2:35:51 PM; • Thales today announced that it has delivered the Ku-band Dual Travelling Wave Tubes (Dual-TWTs) for the ASTRA 1Q satellite ordered by the Luxembourg-based provider of global content and connectivity solutions, SES.
NASA Selects Three University Teams to Participate in Flight Research: 3/11/2025 11:46:42 AM; NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities. As part of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute directly to real-world flight research while gaining hands-on experience working with …
Thales and SES demonstrate compatibility of secure anti-jamming waveforms with MEO satellites: 3/10/2025 2:23:27 PM; • Thales’s Modem21 system typically equips sovereign, ultra-resilient geostationary satellites offering secure, high-data-rate military satellite communications services with high levels of jamming protection.
NASA, SpaceX Complete Dry Dress Rehearsal: 3/10/2025 12:08:30 PM; Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission are in the final stages of launch preparations after completing a dry dress rehearsal on March 9 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos …
Bombardier Honored with Aviation Week Network Laureate Award for Environmental Stewardship: 3/10/2025 11:58:42 AM; • Bombardier’s precedent-setting initiative to publish Environmental Product Declarations commended at the 2025 Aviation Week Network’s Laureate Awards • The company is the only business jet manufacturer in the world to publicly disclose the environmental footprint of its entire in-production aircraft portfolio over their full life cycle Bombardier is proud to …
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon: 3/7/2025 11:28:08 AM; Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station.
ROAMX testing in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center: 3/6/2025 12:19:18 PM; During 2024-2025, helicopter blades optimized for Mars were tested in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center as part of the Rotor Optimization for the Advancement of Mars eXploration (ROAMX) project. The experimental test-chamber of the PAL can be depressurized to create atmospheric air pressures of different planetary bodies such as Mars.
Bombardier’s Record-Breaking Global 7500 Business Jet Achieves Category-Leading 100th Speed Record: 3/6/2025 10:07:52 AM; • Industry-leading flagship eclipses new speed record-setting heights by reaching 100 speed records – the fastest to do so, besting all other aircraft in the ultra-long-range segment • Among the records achieved, the Global 7500 sped through the distance between essential city pairs such as Tokyo to San Francisco, London to Riyadh, Oakland to Tokyo, Hartford to Dubai …
Leonardo and Baykar sign a partnership for unmanned technologies: 3/6/2025 9:34:10 AM; • A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed to establish a Joint Venture for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) • The agreement is built on strong synergies and industrial complementarities, covering unmanned platforms with a wide product range (Baykar), mission systems, payloads, and certification (Leonardo) • The European market for the next ten years, …
NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission: 3/5/2025 1:44:13 PM; The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb.
ESA’s Hera Mission - Mars Flyby and Deimos Encounter: 3/3/2025 1:57:22 PM; Media representatives are invited to attend a briefing on 13 March 2025 following the Hera mission’s close flyby of Mars and its enigmatic moon, Deimos, on 12 March.
NASA Names Norman Knight as Acting Deputy Director of Johnson Space Center: 3/3/2025 12:45:12 PM; NASA has selected Norman Knight as acting deputy director of Johnson Space Center. Knight currently serves as Director of Johnson’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), responsible for astronaut training and for overall planning, directing, managing, and implementing overall mission operations for NASA human spaceflight programs.
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Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon: 3/3/2025 3:06:35 AM; Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon’s near side.