01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...and validation of SpaceX’s test flight with astronauts, known as Demo-2. This test is expected to take place in mid-to-late...as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Pending the successful Demo-2 test, Walker, Glover, Hopkins, and Noguchi will launch...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... this mission was only a proposal concept. We spent the first six years or so simply doing lab-based demos to prove that we could actually achieve the photometric precision necessary with our instruments and our CCDs...
January 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... at the time of the Chelyabinsk meteorite impact In 2014, the authors of this article helped develop and test a demo of a data analysis system for monitoring dangerous celestial bodies and planning countermeasures at the Russian Centre for...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...: is a free-flight space vehicle for multiple missions including scientific research, technology development and operational demos such as in-orbit assembly and repair. The primary objective of a European version of Dream Chaser would be to provide...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... simulant, a mix of different types of material cut into tiny pieces, is weighed on a scale for use in OSCAR. Launch demo On 11 December 2019, the OSCAR payload was successfully flown and operated on Flight NS-12 of Blue Origin’s New Shepard...
25 January 2019
OneWeb targets mid-February for launch of first satellites
... plans to launch more than 30 satellites at a time on a monthly basis starting later in 2019 and will begin customer demos in 2020 with full 24-hour global coverage beginning in 2021. "OneWeb has a bold vision to enable connectivity for...
