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NASA Lunar Probe Captures Detailed Photos of Apollo Landing Sites
网页2011年9月12日 · The $504 million car-sized spacecraft first captured close-up images of the Apollo landing sites in July 2009, which revealed new details about the sites and even spotted hardware that was left ...
China, Russia open moon base project to international partners, …
网页2021年4月26日 · HELSINKI — Russia and China have formally invited countries and international organizations to join the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project being developed by the two nations ...
SpaceX’s new price chart illustrates performance cost of
网页2016年5月2日 · Credit: SpaceX. PARIS — Launch-service provider SpaceX’s new price chart shows the performance cost incurred when making the Falcon 9 Full Thrust and Falcon Heavy rockets partially reusable ...
NASA selects three companies for human landing system awards
网页2020年4月30日 · NASA selected teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX for 10-month study contracts for the Human Landing System (HLS) program. The combined value of the awards is $967 million. “Let’s ...
Planet signs deal with NATO to supply satellite imagery
网页2024年8月19日 · WASHINGTON — Earth imaging company Planet announced Aug. 19 it has inked a deal with NATO to supply satellite imagery. The contract, signed with NATO’s Communications and Information Agency ...
How low can satellites go? VLEO entrepreneurs plan to find out
网页2021年10月5日 · CUTTING COSTS. Satellite constellation operators are well aware of the benefits of VLEO. Planet lowered the altitude of Earth-observation SkySats from 500 kilometers to 450 kilometers in 2019 to ...
KSC to study potential new Starship launch pad - SpaceNews
网页2021年12月22日 · SpaceX is now reviving development of an LC-39A pad for Starship. “Construction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun,” Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, tweeted Dec. 3 ...
AST SpaceMobile fully funds first five commercial direct-to-device ...
网页AST SpaceMobile has fully funded its first five commercial satellites slated to launch with SpaceX early next year after raising $115 million in debt, the low Earth orbit direct-to-device startup ...
NASA awards contract to Northrop Grumman to build Gateway …
网页2021年7月9日 · NASA then issued a $187 million contract in June 2020 to cover work on HALO through the preliminary design review.That review, at the time of the contract announcement, was scheduled for the end ...