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Civil, Military, News

DARPA’s in-space manufacturing program advances with two teams selected for orbital demos

by Sandra ErwinFebruary 10, 2025February 11, 2025

The demonstrations will test novel tech for building large structures in space

Intuitive Machines is preparing IM-2, a Nova-C lunar lander dubbed Athena, for an early January mission to the moon’s south pole. Onboard the lander is NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) experiment designed to search for water ice on the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines

Civil, Launch, News

Ice-hunting Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 nearly ready for January 2025 launch

by Dan RobitzskiSeptember 12, 2024September 16, 2024

Caltech Space Solar Power Demonstrator 1

NASA report offers pessimistic take on space-based solar power

by Jeff FoustJanuary 19, 2024January 19, 2024

5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars

Scientists Unveil A 5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars

by SpaceRef EditorApril 5, 2023July 15, 2024

Colossal Black Holes Locked In A Dance At The Heart Of A Galaxy

by SpaceRef EditorFebruary 24, 2022July 15, 2024

Watkins

JPL director to step down

by Jeff FoustAugust 10, 2021January 23, 2023

Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer Reaches

by SpaceRef EditorApril 21, 2021July 15, 2024

Quadruply Imaged Quasars

by SpaceRef EditorApril 11, 2021July 15, 2024

Solving The Strange Storms On Jupiter

by SpaceRef EditorSeptember 24, 2020July 15, 2024

LIGO-Virgo Finds A Mystery Object In A Mass Gap

by SpaceRef EditorJune 23, 2020July 15, 2024