Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, and four other executives and officials were tapped to join the board of directors of Space Foundation. The 2022 Wash100 Award recipient as well as John Hyten, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Jeff Ashby, former NASA astronaut; Pascale Ehrenfreund, president of […] More

The Space Foundation’s board of directors has approved the appointment of public and private sector representatives to key positions at the global nonprofit organization throughout a term that will end in 2021.

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United Launch Alliance, Ball Aerospace and the Space Foundation have sponsored the launch of two rockets built by ULA interns with payloads that Ball interns and Colorado K-12 students created. ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — said Sunday the event included efforts to launch the 50-foot-tall Future Heavy and 10-foot-tall Genesis rockets to simulate real-life missions and encourage students to pursue careers […] More

A General Atomics subsidiary has signed partnership agreements with CAE and the University of North Dakota’s aerospace foundation in an effort to augment training services for operators of Predator and Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. The UND Aerospace Foundation will provide a flight simulator system to help train students at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.‘s RPA Training Academy in North Dakota on how to operate a drone, General […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, will speak at a Space Foundation-hosted industry forum that will held this spring in Colorado. The 31st Space Symposium will take place at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs from April 13 to 16, Space Foundation said Wednesday. Cowen-Hirsch is slated to deliver […] More

The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has created the Space Situational Awareness working group to develop community consensus regarding how sensor technologies help establish space domain understanding, SatNews reported Tuesday. Denny Brisley, president and chief operating officer of NorthStar Earth and Space, and Robert Zitz, president of Robert Zitz and Associates, will act as co-chairs of the […] More

Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

Three National Science Foundation-backed projects will be part of a Northrop Grumman cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program. The ISS National Laboratory said Tuesday the projects that will fly on Cygnus spacecraft for the Northrop CRS 19 mission are led by Stanford University, Emory University and the […] More

The National Center of Atmospheric Research has tapped Ball Aerospace to design a radio frequency front end system under a program aimed at developing next-generation weather data gathering tool. NCAR’s Airborne Phased Array Radar is meant to boost capability for high-impact weather event data capture to enhance forecasting models, the company said Monday. Both parties […] More

Frontier Aerospace has added former Northrop Grumman executive Cary Ralston and two other industry veterans to its board of directors. The company said Thursday it appointed Ralston, Space Foundation Chairman Jeff Grant and former NASA Space Transportation Director Dennis Smith. “Their collective knowledge and experience will offer invaluable contributions in driving sustainable growth of our […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals for an initiative focused on developing technologies and strategies to enable autonomous air and space missions. According to a broad agency announcement posted Tuesday on SAM.gov, the potential approaches under the Mission Autonomy for Air and Space Systems program should be able to support the military’s autonomous sensing […] More

Maxar Technologies has rebranded its portfolio of spacecraft platforms to better represent the company’s variety of manufacturing capabilities and commitment to serving public and private sector space missions. Comprising the Maxar 300, Maxar 500 and Maxar 1300 series buses, the organization’s lineup offers flexibility across an array of missions, from proliferated low Earth orbit constellations to […] More