by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, ifixit, launches, SpaceX news
December 20, 2019, was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US space program and the US space industry, Boeing in particular. Boeing has been a partner of NASA since the agency’s inception in 1958—the company or those it acquired built the capsules that took...
by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, air quality monitoring, commercial cargo, Department of Commerce, Dragon, e-signature, falcon, Funding Circle, inhersight, interstellar technologies, launches, Perceptics, United States
Blue Origin’s protest to a U.S. governmental watchdog over NASA’s decision to award SpaceX a multi-billion dollar contract to develop a lunar lander was rejected. The Government Accountability Office said Friday that it was denying both Blue Origin’s protest...
by Adre's IT | 30 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Dragon, Funding Circle, future of work, inhersight, launches, LAUNCHub Ventures
Varda Space Industries has raised a $42 million Series A to bring to manufacturing a key capability that can only be found off-world: microgravity. The eight-month-old startup is looking to establish its first manufacturing facility in space as early as 2023, and by...
by Adre's IT | 28 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, exoplanets, launches
When gas falls into a black hole, it releases an enormous amount of energy and spews electromagnetic radiation in all directions, making these objects some of the brightest in the known universe. But scientists have only ever been able to see light and other...
by Adre's IT | 27 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Department of Commerce, Dragon, launches, Startups
Reusable rocket startup iRocket has entered into a new partnership with NASA in its quest to reach commercialization in just two years. The partnership will give iRocket access to testing facilities and engineering support, chiefly at the NASA Marshall Space Flight...
by Adre's IT | 26 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, air quality monitoring, blue moon, commercial cargo, Department of Commerce, Dragon, e-signature, interstellar technologies, launches, search engine optimization, TC
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Blue Origin, is offering to knock up to $2 billion off the cost of developing a lunar lander and to self-fund a pathfinder mission in exchange for a NASA contract. The specific contract in question relates to developing a lunar...
