Lynx Software Technologies is aiming at high-reliability multi-core edge computing with three custom software bundles for industrial, avionic and UAV/satellite applications. Each includes its Mosa.ic framework for integrating multiple operating systems in safety-related or secure systems, and each is built around the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor. They “leverage the safety and reliability of Mosa.ic to enable mission critical edge computing”, according to Lynx ...
Astrobotic, a lunar logistics specialist, has been selected by NASA to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (Viper) to the south pole of the Moon in 2023. Under the terms of the $199.5 million contract – part of Nasa’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme – Astrobotic will provide an end-to-end delivery for VIPER on board the company’s own ...
Preparatory testing for Ireland’s first space mission, EIRSAT-1, is taking place at the ESA’s Hertz antenna test chamber in Noordwijk, Holland. The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 (EIRSAT-1) is being built by students and staff of University College Dublin, who are participating in ESA Education’s Fly Your Satellite! programme, reports the agency. The miniature satellite measures 22 x 10 x ...
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a NASA contract to provide the first crew module for the Artemis Programme Gateway. The terms of the contract, which was first expected to be awarded back in 2019, cover “the preliminary design and development” of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). This is to be deployed in lunar orbit as the first crew module ...
It’s been a busy week for SpaceX. Following on from the Crew Dragon trip to the International Space Sstation, the company has confirmed the successful deployment of another 60 Starlink satellites. Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday, on what is the eighth Starlink mission. Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon ...
Astroscale US is addressing the GEO satellite life extension market with the acquisition of Effective Space Solutions R&D (ESS), developers of a Space Drone programme for satellite servicing. Specifically, the Denver-based U.S. unit of the Japanese parent company, Astroscale Holdings, has announced it is acquiring the IP, certain members of staff and other assets of the Israeli satellite life-extension and ...
Northrop Grumman, the American aerospace and defence technology specialist, has won a contract to provide the hardware for the first two United States Space Force (USSF) polar-orbiting space vehicles. The contract, awarded by the USSF is worth up to $2.37 billion. It will be for design and development work in Phase 1 of the Next-Generation OPIR (Overhead Persistent Infrared) Polar ...
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Florida at the weekend. It then successfully docked with the International Space Station within 24 hours. The spacecraft’s crew are the NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and they joined the three crew members already onboard the orbiting laboratory. Behnken and Hurley docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 10:16 ...
An ESA satellite, EDRS-C, has now completed its in-orbit commissioning review and is ready to start service, as part of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). This system, dubbed the “SpaceDataHighway”, helps Earth-observing satellites to transmit large quantities of potentially life-saving data to Europe in near-real time. EDRS-C is the second operational node of the constellation. Launched on 6 August ...
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