NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA is reaching out to industry for ideas on in-space manufacturing that could support future missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

iRocket reports a successful flight test of the company’s 2.75-in. IRX-100 version of the Hydra 70 rocket system.

Bastion Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $400 million contract by NASA to provide safety and mission assurance for Marshall Space Flight Center.

NASA has initiated the second phase of a competition to recycle large quantities of trash during future long-duration human deep-space exploration missions.

The fuel was subjected to a rigorous series of cyclic thermal evaluations.

The analysis was released by NASA on Oct. 24.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.

Joseph Pelfrey was named director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center by Administrator Bill Nelson on Feb. 5.

For burst testing, a scaled LIFE inflatable habitat was filled with air until it ruptured as Sierra works to deploy a full-scale version to low Earth Orbit.

Building on good results of initial 4,000-lb. demonstrator RDRE engines, NASA says larger pressure-gain rockets hold promise for future space missions.

The road to launch detoured back to the rocket factory for an upper-stage modification.

Singer has held the director’s post since 2018, after serving two years as MSFC’s deputy director.

Ultimately, heritage hardware, not new technology, is the cause.

A hydrogen leak during qualification testing of a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket upper stage was not due to a problem with the test stand.

NASA has terminated efforts to place its small, propulsively challenged Lunar Flashlight mission spacecraft into a backup orbit around the Earth.

A ULA Vulcan-Centaur rocket was rolled out to its launchpad on May 11 for a final series of tests ahead of its debut launch, targeted for this summer.

Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.

The company expected to gain access to the test article on April 14 to recover the dome of the Centaur V test article for analysis.

NASA’s JSC is in line to receive the largest share of the agency’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget request among NASA’s 10 field centers and Washington HQ.

The test confirmed that a 3D-printed engine could operate for long periods at full throttle with a rotating detonation approach to combustion.

NASA’s Washington headquarters is in line for the most, $7.75 billion, followed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston with $5.66 billion.