31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... (OK, Elon, you went to orbit and Bezos went to space), and others will follow soon -- Virgin, Vulcan, Sierra Nevada and even Boeing. And that is just in the United States. And thanks to lot of folks right there...
25 February 2016
SpaceX Signs New NASA Contract for Five Additional Cargo-Supply Missions
... competitive bids for each mission. In January, NASA contracted with three companies – Orbital and SpaceX, plus Sierra Nevada Corp. – for a CRS-2 contract covering cargo missions between 2019 and 2024. Each company has been...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
... heralds another success as the compound was found using the IRAM 30-metre radio telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. As Cassini is due to end its journey in only a couple of months time, other means in which to study the planets...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
... heavy-lift rocket will make its private-sector debut - before it's even fully certified. ULA and Sierra Nevada Corp jointly unveiled an agreement on 14 August in a publicity briefing at the Louisville, Colorado, headquarters of SNC's Space Systems...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
... environments is still missing. Now, based on observations with the IRAM 30 metre telescope located in the Spanish Sierra Nevada and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array Interferometer, a team headed by Junzhi Wang at the Shanghai Astronomical...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...) and radar systems engineering back in the early 70s, is working with a number of subcontractors on its system, including Sierra Nevada Corp. According to Dynetics, the company’s Human Landing System, or DLHS, “enables near-term reusability and...
