WASHINGTON — Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, is adapting navigation software originally developed by NASA for military use under a U.S. Space Force contract, ...
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“Bringing KinetX in-house gives us both flight-proven deep space navigation expertise and the proprietary software behind some of the most ambitious missions in the solar system. These capabilities ...
What does it take to explore deep space without so much as a single GPS signal and move data at speeds that leave radio in the dust? The U.S. Space Force will soon learn, as its Boeing-developed X‑37B ...
The U.S. Space Force (and the Air Force before it) have been flying the Boeing X-37B spaceplane drone since 2010, demonstrating how advanced vehicles like this could maneuver on orbit and testing out ...
When the X-37B launches on its eighth mission no earlier than Aug. 21, it will carry an experimental quantum inertial sensor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...
Intuitive Machines has finalized its acquisition of aerospace company KinetX as part of a push to broaden its deep space navigation and constellation management capabilities and related offerings for ...
HOUSTON, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Machines, Inc. (LUNR) (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a leading space technology, infrastructure, and services company, today announced it ...
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