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Showing posts with label Spacecrafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spacecrafts. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

SwRI develops technology to deploy stabilized solar arrays, enabling spacecraft docking

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed technology that enables spacecraft to utilize precision pointing algorithms for attitude c...
Monday, October 6, 2025

We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes earlier, more accurately

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An artist’s rendering of the spacecraft in the SWIFT constellation stationed in a triangular pyramid formation between the sun and Earth. A ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

NASA's IMAP Mission Successfully Launches to Study Our Solar System's Protective Bubble

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Photo Credit: NASA / Kim Shiflett A new era of space exploration began this morning with the successful launch of NASA's Interstellar Ma...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Greener rocket fuels on the horizon

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Photo Credit:  SpaceX Studying safer, cheaper rocket and missile fuels that could reduce health and environmental...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Lockheed Martin Matures Next Secure Communications Satellite Solution for U.S. Space Force with Major Design Milestone

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MUOS Satellite From Lockheed Martin Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites, the fifth one of which is seen here in production at Loc...
Monday, April 1, 2024

SwRI to build the spacecraft bus for in-space refueler servicer program

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The spacecraft, called the Astroscale Prototype Servicer for Refueling (APS-R), will be able to refuel other vehicles while in geostationary...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Nanosatellite to Test Novel AI Technologies

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Image Credit: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg A new Würzburg space mission is on the home straight: The SONATE-2 nanosatellite will ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Removal of magnetic spacecraft contamination within extraterrestrial samples easily carried out

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PhD student Ji-In Jung, left, and Assistant Professor Sonia Tikoo examine a collection of lunar samples.  Photo Credit: Harry Gregory By dem...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Study suggests large mound structures on Kuiper belt object Arrokoth may have common origin

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The large mound structures that dominate one of the lobes of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin, ...
Monday, October 2, 2023

SwRI scientists use Webb, Sofia telescopes to observe metallic asteroid

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Southwest Research Institute scientists are using telescopes to observe the Psyche asteroid in the infrared, providing context for the upcom...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source

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Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in 2018, the probe is increasing our ability to forecast...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

SwRI selected for phase a study to develop next-generation NOAA coronagraph

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SwRI used internal funding to develop SwSCOR three-stage lens system mounted behind a single-pylon external occulter to minimize distortion ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Improving the Performance of Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

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On-chip distributed radiation sensors and current-sharing techniques can be used to reduce the impact of radiation on the radio and power co...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Tracking ocean microplastics from space

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Video Credit: University of Michigan Microplastic pollution can be spotted from space because its traveling companion alters the roughness o...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Lockheed Martin’s First LM 400 Multi-Mission Spacecraft Completed, Ready For Final Testing

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Lockheed Martin’s first LM 400 mid-sized, multi-mission spacecraft will launch in 2023 as a technology demonstrator. Resized Image using AI ...