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Virgin Orbit has tapped the former CEO of OneWeb Satellites, Tony Gingiss, as the company’s first chief operating officer (COO). In a Wednesday release, Virgin Orbit said Gingiss will oversee day-to-day operations at the company’s manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California. OneWeb Satellites is the joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus that manufactures the constellation’s satellites. Gingiss led the company through design, low-rate-initial production, pilot launches, and into f...

NASA will delay the launch of a mission which seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat.The launch of the mission, called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), has been moved from the primary ...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. Artist’s concept of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, with Europa and Jupiter in the background. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has decided to launch the multibillion-dollar Europa Clipper mission on a commercial heavy-lift rocket in October 2024, and not on the gov...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. File photo of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in April 2019. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now NASA announced Tuesday it has awarded SpaceX a $331 million contract to launch the first two pieces of the Gateway lunar outpost in 2024 using a modified versi...

Two local communities have been selected by the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) to receive up to $800,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for the construction of new childcare centers. The City of Glidden was awarded up to $500,000 through the CDBG’s Community Facilities and Services Program for the proposed Lil’ Wildcats Education Center. The City of Manilla was selected to receive up to $300,000 for a similar initiative, the Lil’ Hawks Child Care Center at...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agencys Power and...

NASA picks Elon Musk’s SpaceX for mission to study history of the universe February 05, 2021 Astronomers to collect data on 300 million galaxies The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the selection of Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for its SPHEREx mission. The SPHEREx or the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer mission is meant to help scientist...

Share this article WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (https://www.cedars-sinai.org/) in Los Angeles, California, has been awarded Accreditation for a three-year term by the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program (http://globalhealthcareaccreditation.com/) for its Medical Travel Services Program. Consistently named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the United States top hospitals in multiple categories, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a ...

Zentech Dallas Earns IPC Certifications IPCs Validation Services Program has awarded an IPC 1791 Trusted Assembler and the IPC 610 QML (Qualified Manufacturers Listing) to Zentech Dallas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Zentech. Manufacturing. Following an initial audit by IPC, Zentech Dallas joins Zentech Baltimore in the elite group of U.S. trusted sources and suppliers with these certifications. "I am very proud of the team at ...

Revamped CommuniCare opening Monday Support Local Journalism On Monday, Feb. 1, CommuniCare Health Centers will reopen an expanded Davis Community Clinic following a 10-month closure. CommuniCare Health Centers has been serving the people of Yolo County and the city of Davis for nearly 50 years, starting as the Davis Free Clinic in 1972. The Davis site moved several times over those years until it ultimately landed on the Sutter Davis Hospital campus. The renovation will allow CommuniCare to ex...