“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 ...
Illustration of a Vanguard-equipped satellite receiving instructions from the ground, autonomously calculating a rendezvous trajectory to a resident space object and entering harmonic orbits to ...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ventured through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion ...
The upcoming mission of the US military’s X-37B orbital test vehicle, scheduled for August 21, 2025, is set to test an innovative quantum-based inertial navigation system, marking a significant leap ...
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 ...
TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, said it has successfully transmitted time and tracking signals from a ground station to a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The functions of guidance, navigation, and control are vital to all forms of air and space flight. The Space History collections in this area attempt to reflect that significance and illustrate the ...