by OGL News | Dec 14, 2023 | news-hub
Credit: Helicity Space SAN FRANCISCO — Helicity Space, a California startup developing fusion engines for spaceflight, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round announced Dec. 11. Helicity attracted funding from Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space...
by OGL News | Dec 11, 2023 | news-hub
Artist’s render of Infinity Avionics space surveillance system with coaligned optical heads. Credit: Infinity Avionics SAN FRANCISCO – Australian startup Infinity Avionics is developing a dual-headed camera system for space-based space surveillance. With...
by OGL News | Dec 10, 2023 | news-hub
Illustration of a SpaceX Starship lunar lander on the moon. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The first crewed landing of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration effort is unlikely to happen before 2027, a report by the Government Accountability Office concluded. The GAO...
by OGL News | Dec 9, 2023 | news-hub
A panorama returned by the Chang’e-5 lander, showing robotic sampling arm and scoop marks in lunar regolith. Credit: CNSA/CLEP HELSINKI — NASA-funded researchers have been granted permission to apply for access to China’s Chang’e-5 lunar samples in an exception...
by OGL News | Dec 7, 2023 | news-hub
The launch of NASA’s IMAP mission will include two spacecraft as rideshare payloads, but at one point four were assigned. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton University/Steve Gribben WASHINGTON — NASA is developing an updated rideshare policy for...
by OGL News | Dec 6, 2023 | news-hub
Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons (right), a backup member for the Artemis 2 moon mission, poses with Western University’s Gordon Osinski. Osinski is a member of the Artemis 3 geology landing support team and the principal investigator of Canada’s mini...