At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a…
General Dynamics Mission Systems announced today that it and a NASA team successfully completed the final laboratory System Acceptance Test (SAT) of NASA’s Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) project.…
From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission’s first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the…
“Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. Observing a sampling of…
The commercial space industry is hot, and if Vector has its way, it is going to get even hotter. With the help of Citrix Systems, Inc., Tucson-based Vector is pioneering a next-generation platform…
Luke Air Force Base is feeling the effects of a national pilot shortage, leaving the Air Force without enough pilots, maintenance crew and support staff to fully power U.S. military…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu, on Dec. 3. Led by the University of Arizona, the OSIRIS-REx mission is the first NASA mission to visit a near-Earth…
Tucson-based Vector, a leading microsatellite launch company comprised of New Space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch and VMware, today announced that it has…
In a development that confirms PADT’s aerospace customers receive products and services carried out under the most stringent quality assurance processes, PADT’sQuality Management System (QMS) has been certified compliant to AS9100D(2016)…
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed a significant milestone in the development of its long-range DeepStrike™ missile to meet the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, requirement. The company has integrated its…
Armin Sorooshian, a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Arizona, has spent his career at high altitudes — whether he’s soaring above the Pacific Ocean collecting…
Look at any image of the Earth taken from space and chances are you’ll find yourself marveling at what looks like the very essence of tranquility. But the serenity of…
