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Ball Aerospace-Built Spacecraft for NASA X-Ray Astrophysics Mission Successfully Launches from Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral, Fla., Dec. 9, 2021 — NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace successfully launched today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching its final orbital position, the small explorer will begin its mission of observing polarized X-rays from extreme objects, such as neutron…
Space4U Podcast: Dorit Donoviel — Director, Translational Research Institute for Space Health
In this episode: We meet Dr. Dorit Donoviel, director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH). She is also director of the Biomedical Innovation Laboratory and associate professor of Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Donoviel’s work revolves around performing research and developing strategies aimed at reducing health and safety risks to…
Transcript: Space4U podcast, Dorit Donoviel
Hello, welcome to the Space4U Podcast. I’m Zakary Watson with Space Foundation. Space4U is designed to tell the stories of the people who make today’s space exploration and global space ecosystem possible. Joining us today is Dr. Dorit Donoviel, Director of Translational Research Institute for Space Health, also known as TRISH. She is the Director…
Dr. Janet Kavandi of Sierra Space Honored with 36th Women in Aerospace Lifetime Achievement Award
LOUISVILLE, Colo, December 3, 2021 – Sierra Space President Dr. Janet Kavandi was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 36th Women in Aerospace Awards (WIA) for her outstanding contributions to aerospace. Women in Aerospace is a leading professional organization dedicated to expanding women’s opportunities for leadership, education and visibility in the aerospace community. Women in…
Shelli Brunswick, Space Foundation Recognized as a Winner of Global Technology Leadership at the WomenTech Global Awards 2021
WomenTech Network announced the winners during the live award ceremony that celebrated 100,000 women, minorities and allies in tech. Shelli Brunswick, chief operating officer of Space Foundation, was chosen as a winner at the largest virtual awards celebration in technology for women, minorities and their allies, WomenTech Global Awards 2021 by WomenTech Network, the world’s…
Biweekly Washington, D.C., Update for the Week Ending December 3, 2021
This week in Washington, D.C., the Biden/Harris Administration convened its first National Space Council meeting, signed an Executive Order on the National Space Council, called for new international norms of behavior in the wake of the Russian ASAT test, and NASA announced new partnerships to develop a commercial space station. The government avoids shutdown with…
NASA Selects Orbital Reef to Develop Space Station Replacement
December 2, 2021 – Orbital Reef, led by partners Blue Origin and Sierra Space, was selected today by NASA for a funded Space Act Agreement for collaboration to design a commercially owned and operated space station in low Earth orbit (LEO). NASA’s Commercial LEO Development program aims to shift NASA’s research and exploration activities in LEO to commercial space stations, helping stimulate a growing…
Space Foundation Opens Registration for 37th Space Symposium, To Be Held April 4-7, 2022
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Dec. 1, 2021 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983, today announced that registration is now open for the 37th Space Symposium. The premier gathering of the global space ecosystem will be held April 4-7, 2022, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs and will include in-person and virtual…
NASA’s First Planetary Defense Mission Propelled by Aerojet Rocketdyne
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 24, 2021 – NASA’s first planetary defense mission—the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)—launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Nov. 23, equipped with a full suite of Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion. The mission is designed to assess if kinetic impact is a reliable method to deflect asteroids. The DART spacecraft will be flown head-on…
Sierra Space Secures Record $1.4 Billion Series A Growth Investment and Achieves $4.5 Billion Valuation
Investment led by General Atlantic, Coatue and Moore Strategic Ventures, with participation from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Private Equity Partners and AE Industrial Partners Sierra Space secures $1.4 billion Series A capital raise; represents largest aerospace and defense capital raise globally in 2021, second-largest private capital raise globally in the aerospace and defense sector ever…