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Capturing Defunct Satellites and Other Space Junk

Sep 15, 2022 | Featured, Satellites, Space

More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space missions and human space travel. An estimated 130 million objects...

NASA is Planning a Permanent Moon Base. What Will It Take to Build?

Sep 15, 2022 | Space

The most powerful rocket ever built sits on a launchpad in Florida. Over an intercom, crowds of onlookers listen to the countdown – “4, 3, 2…” – and then the bottom of the rocket begins to rumble. The vibrations first travel through the soles of the watchers’ feet and...

These 3 Companies Will Help NASA Build Lunar Vertical Solar Arrays

Sep 1, 2022 | Solar, Space

NASA has tapped three companies to help develop new solar arrays to power Artemis missions to the moon by astronauts and robots. The space agency this month awarded a total of $19.4 million to the companies Astrobotic Technology, Honeybee Robotics and Lockheed...

Satellites with Robot Arms Used to Pull Others Out of Orbit

Sep 1, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space

An Australian space industry expert has said he has concerns about the deployment of potentially threatening technology in space amid competition from Russia and China. Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Space Industry Association of Australia CEO James Brown said...

NASA Prepares Return to Lunar Glory with Artemis Test Flight

Aug 25, 2022 | Space

A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant...

ISS Hosts a Surgical Robot in 2024

Aug 24, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space

A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or “Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant,” will fly to the International Space...