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WASHINGTON : The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it planned to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to dramatically boost the production of compound semiconductors used in satellites and spacecraft.The award for Rocket Lab unit SolAero Technologies Corp "would help create a more robust and resilient su

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 27, 2024 - A new paradigm is taking shape in the space industry as the countries and entities accessing space continue to grow and diversify. This dynamic landscape creates both competition and potential for s

Engineers certainly could design such a system, but adding it would require sacrificing space or weight meant for science.

Every mission has an ending, and when NASA spacecraft meet theirs, many will go out in a carefully choreographed blaze of glory.

Every now and again, a reminder comes along that our planet really is unusual in so many fabulous ways.

It's time to put the notion of a cold, lifeless Mars to bed.

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2023 - The Mars InSight mission, since its inception, has shed light on the seismic vibrancy of the Red Planet. The missions deployment of a seismic station has led to the recording of 98 low-frequency se

Mars may have a hard, dusty shell, but its interior is layered like a jawbreaker – and surprisingly squishy.

The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it might be.

An exhaustive search for an impact crater by every single mission in Mars orbit allowed experts to rule out the possibility an impact caused the tremors.