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NASA Armstrong Contributions Propel Artemis, Deep Space Innovation
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NASA Armstrong Contributions Propel Artemis, Deep Space Innovation

NASA is leveraging expertise, capabilities, and partnerships across its centers to make Artemis campaign and deep space exploration safer, more reliable, and efficient. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, contributions include technical leadership, unique flight-testing capabilities, and management of a key technology program that advances critical exploration concepts. Artemis II is an […]

NASA News • Feb 04, 2026
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NASA Heat Shield Tech Contributes to America’s Space Industry
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NASA Heat Shield Tech Contributes to America’s Space Industry

This Jan. 29, 2026, photo captures the streak the Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule made while returning to Earth. The capsule uses a protective heat shield Varda produced made of cutting-edge material it licensed from NASA. The material, known as C-PICA (Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator), provides a stronger, less expensive, and more efficient thermal protection […]

NASA News • Feb 04, 2026
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NASA’s SPHEREx Examines Comet 3I/ATLAS’s Coma
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NASA’s SPHEREx Examines Comet 3I/ATLAS’s Coma

Description These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma. The comet brightened significantly during the December 2025 period when SPHEREx made the observations — about two […]

NASA News • Feb 04, 2026
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Lufthansa Group to retain current IFC until Starlink pivot is complete
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Lufthansa Group to retain current IFC until Starlink pivot is complete

Lufthansa Group’s decision to tap SpaceX Starlink for its entire fleet after recently fitting European Aviation Network kit to narrowbodies and selecting Panasonic Avionics’ multi-orbit inflight connectivity for some A330s underscores a relatively new market paradigm: IFC contracts are getting shorter, and those with the heft and flexibility to do so, can turn on a dime.... The post Lufthansa Group to retain current IFC until Starlink pivot is complete appeared first on Runway Girl.

Runway Girl Network • Feb 04, 2026
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Press Release: Panasonic to explore LEO IFC opportunities with Spacesail
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Press Release: Panasonic to explore LEO IFC opportunities with Spacesail

Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic Avionics), the world’s leading supplier of in-flight engagement and connectivity (IFEC) solutions, today announced at the Singapore Airshow a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Spacesail Technologies (Spacesail) to explore opportunities to add Spacesail’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to Panasonic Avionics’ in-flight connectivity global network. The MOU allows the... The post Press Release: Panasonic to explore LEO IFC opport

Runway Girl Network • Feb 04, 2026
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Space telescopes at light speed
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Space telescopes at light speed

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather slower speeds. Take, as one example, the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA began feasibility studies for the mission in the mid-1990s and […] The post Space telescopes at light speed appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceNews • Feb 04, 2026
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Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race
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Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race

In the consumer electronics playbook, custom silicon is the final step in the marathon: you use off-the-shelf components to prove a product, achieve mass scale and only then invest in proprietary chips to create differentiation, improve operations, and optimize margins. In the modern satellite communications (SATCOM) ecosystem, this script has been flipped. For the industry’s […] The post Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceNews • Feb 04, 2026
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NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test
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NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test

NASA officials defended their preparations for the Artemis 2 mission after a fueling test experienced the same type of hydrogen leaks that bedeviled Artemis 1 more than three years ago. The post NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceNews • Feb 04, 2026
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Full Moon over Artemis II
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Full Moon over Artemis II

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The agency concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, […]

NASA News • Feb 03, 2026
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NASA Space to Soil Challenge
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NASA Space to Soil Challenge

Rapid advances in commercial space, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are transforming what is possible for Earth observation. By pushing more intelligence onboard, missions can move from passively collecting data to actively interpreting and responding to changing surface conditions in near-real time, enabling more targeted observations and dramatically improving the value of data returned to […]

NASA News • Feb 03, 2026
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Flight heritage? It isn’t what you think
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Flight heritage? It isn’t what you think

In space procurement, there are few phrases that carry more weight than “flight heritage.” Once a supplier claims it, the rest of the room can relax. The hardware has flown, goes the thinking. It worked. The risk of using such hardware is vanishingly small, even absent. This is understandable. Space is famously unforgiving, and if […] The post Flight heritage? It isn’t what you think appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceNews • Feb 03, 2026
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