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☆ Defense Contractor L3Harris Plans to Buy Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 Billion
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Doug Cameron | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A deal is expected to face intense regulatory scrutiny at a time when Aerojet has also wrestled with production problems. Defense firm L3Harris Technologies Inc. on Sunday said it agreed to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. in a $4.7 billion deal that would cement L3Harris’s role as one of six prime defense contractors for the Pentagon. Aerojet is a major maker of engines used in missiles, such as the Javelin deployed in Ukraine. Its products also help power National Aeronautics and Space Administration rockets and U.S. military hypersonic systems designed to deter China’s military expansion.
☆ Rocket Lab delays first U.S. launch, cuts revenue forecast
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Dec 19 (Reuters) - Rocket Lab USA Inc (RKLB.O) cut its revenue forecast for the fourth quarter on Monday after it delayed the first launch of its Electron rocket from U.S. soil to January, sending its shares down about 5% in extended trading. The rocket maker said that due to the delay, revenue for the mission will be recognized in the first quarter. The delay in documentation left two days in a 14-day launch window which were unsuitable for "Virginia Is For Launch Lovers" mission due to bad weather, the company added. Rocket Lab, which has been launching rockets from New Zealand, cut its fourth-quarter revenue forecast to between $46 million and $47 million from $51 million to $54 million. Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini GanguliOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Defense firm L3Harris to buy Aerojet for $4.7 bln with eye on missile demand
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc (LHX.N) said on Sunday it would buy Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc (AJRD.N) in a $4.7 billion all-cash transaction, as it looks to tap into rising demand for missiles amid the Ukraine conflict. Reuetrs had first reported on Saturday that L3Harris was nearing the deal to acquire U.S. rocket maker Aerojet. The deal, which is expected to be completed in 2023, would add on to L3Harris' Space & Airborne Systems unit, which makes electronic warfare equipment and avionics sensors. Aerojet develops and manufactures liquid and solid rocket propulsion and hypersonic engines for space, defense, civil and commercial applications. Aerojet makes the RS-25 engines for NASA's launch vehicle, as well as the RL10 engines that power launch vehicles made by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing Co (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin.
☆ NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Set to Attempt Return as First Artemis Mission Ends
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The final leg of NASA’s inaugural Artemis mission is expected to unfold Sunday as the spacecraft the agency sent to orbit the moon tries to return to Earth. The crew module on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft is slated to land under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean around 12:40 p.m. ET Sunday, off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California, according to NASA’s re-entry plan.
☆ NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission Concludes With Orion Splashdown in the Pacific
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth after a nearly monthlong voyage that took it to orbit the moon, concluding a test flight that the agency deemed a success and helping to reinvigorate its ambitions for deep-space exploration. After facing intense heat when it hurtled through the atmosphere, the Orion crew module—a gumdrop-shaped vehicle that astronauts are expected to travel in during future missions—landed in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes at 12:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, the agency said. The splashdown was west of Baja California in Mexico.
☆ NASA Prepares for Orion Spacecraft Splashdown to Conclude Artemis I Mission
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
NASA’s Artemis moon mission is set to conclude this weekend when the agency attempts to return part of the Orion spacecraft to Earth, a maneuver that will expose the vehicle to intense heat after a nearly monthlong journey. The crew module on the agency’s Orion spacecraft is expected to land under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California in Mexico around 12:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
☆ Jeff Bezos’s Space Company Bids Again for NASA Moon Lander, After SpaceX Win
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, said it is part of a group that has bid to develop a lunar lander. Jeff Bezos‘s space company said it is making another run at the moon, after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration chose rival SpaceX to handle a high-profile lunar mission last year. Blue Origin LLC, the space company Mr. Bezos founded and has backed, said Tuesday in a tweet that it is part of a group that submitted a bid to develop a lunar lander capable of transporting NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon on future missions for Artemis, the agency’s space-exploration program. Blue Origin’s partners on its bid include Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co.
☆ NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Makes Close Approach to Moon During Artemis Flight
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
NASA’s Orion spacecraft approached the moon Monday morning, the agency said, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit where it is expected to spend close to a week. Orion sped just 81 miles above the far side of the moon shortly before 8 a.m. ET, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration live stream. That distance is expected to be the nearest the uncrewed ship will come to the lunar surface during the nearly 26-day Artemis I mission that began Wednesday, when NASA blasted Orion into space on top of a powerful Space Launch System rocket.
☆ Artemis I Moon Launch Attempt Set for Early Wednesday
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
NASA will try to get its enormous moon rocket off a launchpad for a third time early Wednesday morning after technical problems stymied earlier attempts. The mission is a critical jumping-off point for Artemis, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s multiyear agency program to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 and set the stage for broader agency space-exploration efforts.
☆ NASA Preps Artemis I Moon Mission for Early Morning Launch
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
NASA will try to get its enormous moon rocket off a launchpad for a third time early Wednesday morning after technical problems stymied earlier attempts. The mission is a critical jumping-off point for Artemis, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s multiyear agency program to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 and set the stage for broader agency space-exploration efforts.
☆ Piece of Challenger Space Shuttle Found by Documentary Crew Off Florida Coast
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A dive team working on a documentary discovered part of the space shuttle Challenger off the coast of Florida. A section of the space shuttle Challenger was found on the ocean floor more than three decades after it exploded moments after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. National Aeronautics and Space Administration leaders confirmed Thursday that footage shot by a documentary film crew earlier this year showed a section of the Challenger.
☆ Piece of Challenger Space Shuttle Found By Documentary Crew Off Florida Coast
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A dive team working on a documentary discovered part of the space shuttle Challenger off the coast of Florida. A section of the space shuttle Challenger was found on the ocean floor more than three decades after it exploded moments after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. National Aeronautics and Space Administration leaders confirmed Thursday that footage shot by a documentary film crew earlier this year showed a section of the Challenger.
☆ South Africa's new ground station to help NASA track space flights
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Wendell Roelf | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
MATJIESFONTEIN, South Africa Nov 8 (Reuters) - A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency officials said Tuesday. The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) will establish, operate and maintain the station. South Africa has committed an initial 70 million rand ($3.93 million) to build the infrastructure and communications needed to ready the site, part of the government's investment in building its space infrastructure and research base. "NASA would not come to South Africa if they didn't feel that we have capacities to do the work in partnership with them," said Phil Mjwara, director general at South Africa's department of science and innovation. ($1 = 17.8206 rand)Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ NASA says its annual economic output is triple the agency's budget
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Michael Sheetz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Astronauts flying on SpaceX's Crew-5 mission for NASA stand in front of the agency's worm logo during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday said its annual economic output is three times the size of its yearly budget. In a newly released study, NASA looked at fiscal year 2021, in which the agency had over 19,000 employees and a federal budget of $23.3 billion. According the report, NASA missions, research and more "generated a total economic output of more than $71.2 billion," with the agency's work supporting about 340,000 jobs in all 50 states and Washington, D.C."We're trying to point out just how penetrating, and almost incalculable, this [agency's] economic impact is," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told CNBC. And, as effective as NASA's return on taxpayer dollars may seem, Nelson argued that the economic impact report actually undersells the agency's value to the U.S. economy.
☆ SpaceX, Boeing and Lockheed Prepare Future Hardware for NASA’s Artemis Program
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Companies behind NASA’s Artemis moon program—including SpaceX, Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp.—are working on future missions as the agency prepares to try to get its first lunar rocket off the ground next month. Lockheed Martin said last week that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ordered three more of the Orion spaceship it has developed, and the agency plans to use them for the sixth through eighth Artemis missions. The latest order amounted to about $2 billion, according to Lockheed, which is now building Orions for the second through fifth Artemis flights.
☆ SpaceX, Boeing and Lockheed Prepare Future Hardware for NASA’s Artemis Moon Program
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Companies behind NASA’s Artemis moon program—including SpaceX, Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp.—are working on future missions as the agency prepares to try to get its first lunar rocket off the ground next month. Artemis is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s effort to return astronauts to the surface of the moon for the first time since 1972, among other goals, using several space vehicles developed by a gaggle of large aerospace companies and smaller suppliers.
☆ Orionid Meteor Shower: When It Is and How to Watch the Peak
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Orionids, an exceptionally bright and speedy meteor shower, will be visible all over the world early Friday. The Orionid meteor shower will peak in the predawn hours of Friday morning, giving sky-watchers a chance to see what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronomers call one of the most beautiful of the 30 or so annual meteor showers. The Orionids are known for producing exceptionally bright and speedy meteors. Some move up to 41 miles per second, or about 148,000 miles an hour, as they streak through and burn up in the atmosphere.
☆ Astronaut James McDivitt, Commander of Apollo 9, Dies at 93
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Joseph De Avila | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Astronaut James McDivitt , who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, has died. He was 93 years old. Mr. McDivitt died in his sleep on Oct. 13 surrounded by his family and friends in Tucson, Ariz., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement Monday. The astronaut and Korean War veteran logged more than 14 days in space and was part of the crew that conducted the first U.S. spacewalk, NASA said.
☆ Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to ‘Equity and Inclusion’
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Lawrence Krauss | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
America’s largest research funder in physical sciences isn’t the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or the National Science Foundation. It’s the Energy Department’s Office of Science, which gives money to university programs throughout the country and oversees the 10 major national laboratories, from Livermore to Los Alamos. Its brief includes energy and research into fundamental questions: the structure of matter, the nature of the cosmos, high-energy and nuclear physics with large accelerators, materials physics with X-ray synchrotrons, fusion and advanced scientific computers. And now, social justice.
☆ NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission Deemed a Success
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The first mission to test a technology that one day might protect Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact achieved its goal on Sept. 26, when a fast-moving spacecraft smashed into and changed the trajectory of a distant space rock, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday. NASA said the intentional collision between its uncrewed spacecraft and the 525-foot-wide asteroid, called Dimorphos, successfully shifted the asteroid’s orbit around a larger asteroid called Didymos.
☆ NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Closest Flyby of Jupiter Moon Europa in Decades
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft gave scientists one of the closest-ever looks at an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter that the agency said is widely considered the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth. The craft named Juno buzzed by Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa, on Thursday, coming within 222 miles of its surface around 5:36 a.m. It is the first time the agency has glimpsed Europa that closely since its Galileo orbiter mission flew at a similar distance in 2000.
☆ Hurricane Ian Forces NASA to Roll Back Rocket, Further Delaying Artemis Launch
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The NASA moon rocket as it stood earlier this month on a pad at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA will move its moon rocket back to a storage facility in part to protect the towering vehicle from Hurricane Ian, further delaying the agency’s inaugural Artemis mission. Managers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided Monday to roll the rocket back to what is called the Vehicle Assembly Building from a pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency said in a statement.
☆ NASA’s DART Spacecraft to Smash Into Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An uncrewed spacecraft is on track to smash into and deflect a distant asteroid on Monday, the dramatic climax of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission to test whether the technique could one day be used to protect Earth. “For the first time ever we will measurably change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe,” said Bobby Braun, head of the space exploration sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. The research center built the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission spacecraft and is responsible for its operation at the direction of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
☆ NASA’s DART Spacecraft Slams Into Asteroid in Effort to Alter Its Orbit
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An uncrewed spacecraft smashed into an asteroid Monday in an effort to deflect the distant space rock, the dramatic climax of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission to test whether the technique could one day be used to protect Earth. “We’re all just losing our minds right now,” said Harrison Agrusa, a University of Maryland astrophysicist and investigation team member on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission.
☆ NASA’s Asteroid-Deflection Mission Spotlights Planetary Defense Effort
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Can the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shift the orbit of an asteroid by smashing into it with a fast-moving spacecraft? The agency might find out Monday, when a bus-size craft traveling at a speed in excess of 14,000 miles an hour tries to hit a 525-foot-wide space rock. The anticipated collision between the uncrewed spacecraft and the asteroid, named Dimorphos, marks the climactic moment of NASA’s $325 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. DART is the world’s first mission to test a technology that one day might protect Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact.
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