Tag: nasa
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Got space junk? Colorado companies have solutions
Space junk — NASA estimates 9,000 metric tons of it — is orbiting the Earth, posing a risk to the grand plans for an on-orbit business ecosystem. While the threat of collision is still relatively low, when it happens it can destroy a satellite. In 2009, an inactive Russian satellite hit a working communication satellite and both…
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Got space junk? Colorado companies have solutions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Space junk — NASA estimates 9,000 metric tons of it — is orbiting the Earth, posing a risk to the grand plans for an on-orbit business ecosystem. While the threat of collision is still relatively low, when it happens it can destroy a satellite. In 2009, an…
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Air Force Academy graduate to test new supersonic X-59 jet
An Air Force Academy graduate will be the lead test pilot for a new needle-nosed jet NASA is rolling out Friday that will not make the same boom as the supersonic planes of the past. “Yeager broke the sound barrier and now we are trying to fix it,” joked test pilot David Nils Larson, referencing…
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Lockheed Martin, Artemis I
Ron Nelthorpe, Senior Manager Program Planning talking about Artemis I flight
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AFA to rename building after ’64 grad, NASA astronaut
The Air Force Academy plans to honor 1964 graduate and astronaut Frederick Gregory by renaming a building in his honor. The Consolidated Education and Training Facility — which houses astronautical and civil engineering facilities and laboratories aligned with the chemistry and biology departments — will be renamed Gregory Hall later this year. The new name honors the…
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NASA releases first Mars video and images of Perseverance rover landing
NASA unveiled the first video and audio recordings from its Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Among the content released on Monday is a video showing Perseverance land on the red planet after a journey of millions of miles from Earth.
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NEWS | Countdown to Mars
A NASA rover landed on Mars Thursday in a mission to collect samples to bring back to Earth.
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NEWS | Two Coloradans could be headed to the moon
Two Coloradans are on the short list to travel to the moon. NASA Astronauts Matthew Dominick of Wheat Ridge and Jessica Watkins of Lafayette were among 18 astronauts named Wednesday to the Artemis Program, the next lunar mission. (Video by David Mullen & Skyler Ballard)
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NASA spacecraft sends first pictures of Ultima Thule
LAUREL, Md. — A NASA spacecraft traveling 4 billion miles from Earth has sent back its first close-up pictures of the most distant celestial object ever explored, Ultima Thule, and it looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object has been dubbed, is an elongated body about 20 miles long, consisting…
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Company in Colorado Springs accelerator wins $5.1M government contract
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SaraniaSat, one of six companies that took part in the first phase of a Colorado Springs-based defense and national security accelerator, has been awarded a $5.1 million contract over three years from NASA for its hyperspectral remote-sensing technology. Catalyst Accelerator launched in January at the…