Tag: SpaceX
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How Lori Garver Launched NASA’s Commercial Space Partnerships
From the start, were you trying to support commercial partnerships with the space industry, or did that develop out of necessity? I would describe the goal as being to increase the efficiency of the tax dollar and to reduce the cost of getting to orbit. Because then at that point NASA can be doing more ... -
General Motors And Lockheed Are Developing Car Rental Service For The Moon
Lunar Mobility Vehicles will be recharged using solar power. General Motors and Lockheed Martin last year had announced that they were teaming up to work on a new lunar rover that would carry astronauts and their gear to the Moon. Now, the two companies have said that they are looking to make rental cars for the ... -
Heaviest commercial satellite ever will launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
New estimations show that the upcoming Jupiter-3 geostationary communications satellite will be the heaviest commercial geostationary satellite ever launched. Jupiter-3, also known as Echostar 24, is being built by Maxar Technologies for Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of EchoStar. The satellite was scheduled to launch at the end of 2022, after initially being planned to ...