Intuitive Machines lands $4.8B NASA contract to build Earth-moon communications infrastructure
NASA wants to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, but right now, astronauts have to be in direct line of sight with Earth to phone home. The space agency is looking to change that with its developing Near Space Network,
NASA taps Intuitive Machines to build a lunar communications network
NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a long-term contract potentially worth $4.82 billion to develop, launch, and operate a five-satellite communications and navigation network around the moon. The network will enable constant connectivity with the moon’s south pole as traffic picks up there,
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Late Tuesday, Intuitive Machines (LUNR) announced that NASA had awarded the company the Near Space Network contract for communication and navigation services for missions in the near-space region, ...
The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...
NASA said Thursday its Space Communication and Navigation program is taking the lead on an effort to establish a Coordinated ...
A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...
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NASA Creates Most Accurate Eclipse Maps EverTraditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...
NASA confirmed on Friday that it will create a new lunar time system for the Moon. The White House published a policy memo in ...
Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...
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