Tag: Batteries
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper Protoflight Mission Achieves 100% Success Rate
Amazon started Project Kuiper with the goal of providing fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Within 30 days of sending two prototype satellites into space, Project Kuiper has achieved a 100% success rate for its Protoflight mission, validating key technologies that underpin the network and moving the program another step…
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Firefly Successfully Completes Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Structure Ahead of NASA Moon Mission
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, announced it completed the development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for Firefly’s first lunar mission slated to land on the Moon in 2024 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. This mission is one of three…
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NASA’s Trio of Mini Rovers to Demonstrate New Autonomous Robotic Technology
NASA is sending a trio of miniature rovers to the Moon to see how well they can cooperate with one another without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. A teamwork-minded experiment to demonstrate new technology, the CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) project marks another step the agency is taking toward developing robots…
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Ibeos Introduces New Radiation Tolerant Battery for Space Applications
Ibeos, a company developing high-reliability spacecraft electronics, built and operated to maximize efficiency for developing new products and technologies has introduced a new radiation-tolerant 50V/kWHR battery. The B50-1000 from Ibeos is a 1000-Watt-hour, 50-Volt lithium-ion battery module. It is a radiation-tolerant and fault-tolerant energy storage system. The battery comes with an aluminum and PEEK packaging…
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Redwire Space Providing Unparalleled Flight Heritage of More Than 50 Years in Space Missions
Redwire Space is a space company that combines heritage and innovation. It is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations. Vision Decades of flight heritage and innovation of world-class technologies combined with their mission success and focus on customer satisfaction have positioned Redwire Space as a leader…
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AAC Clyde Space’ Specialities Enhance Small Satellites and Services For Space
AAC Clyde Space is a space company that specializes in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organizations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life…
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Boeing’s Powerful Satellite Platform Delivered to Network Provider Viasat
Boeing delivered the most powerful satellite platform the company has built to date, the 702MP+, a custom-designed spacecraft for network provider Viasat. “Working with Boeing, we’re very excited to complete the ViaSat-3 Americas and bring us one step closer to providing higher speeds, more bandwidth, and greater value to our customers on a global scale whether…
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Spacewalkers finish swapping batteries
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson helps Thomas Pesquet (left) and Shane Kimbrough (right) suit up for a spacewalk. (NASA Photo) Two astronauts made quick work of a battery upgrade today during the International Space Station’s second spacewalk in a week. NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet installed three new adapter plates and hooked up…
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Space station gets a boost from new lithium-ion batteries after spacewalk
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough flashes a smile for a selfie during a spacewalk at the International Space Station. (NASA Photo) The International Space Station got a power upgrade today when spacewalkers hooked three new lithium-ion batteries into the electrical system. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson spent about six and a half hours outside the…