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Framing the Future Commercial Human Spaceflight Environment

Aerospace supports the FAA in understanding how common best safety practices among well-established transportation sectors can be applied to commercial human spaceflight.

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Project Phantom: Furthering Space Exploration with Virtual and Augmented Reality

The Aerospace Corporation is investigating the potential for AR and VR technology to assist with space operations and change the way humans explore the solar system.

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Aerospace at DEF CON 31

Whether it was with Moonlighter, SPARTA or winning the Black Badge award, Aerospace's cyber experts demonstrated technical excellence throughout DEF CON 31.

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Inside The Nanosatellite Revolution: Q&A with the Aerospace Book Editors

Book editors Henry Helvajian and Siegfried Janson – both also contributing as authors – discuss working with experts across the world to document the nanosatellite revolution, covering 30 years (and…

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Aerospace’s Moonlighter Illuminates a Path to Resiliency

The testbed will help define new techniques and best practices to effectively protect systems in the growing and competitive space environment.

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Future STEM Leaders Scholarship

Providing financial assistance and mentorship to underrepresented students studying STEM disciplines.

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Blinker Payload Advances Space Traffic Management Capabilities

Blinker is a small, self-contained and autonomous transponder that can provide near real-time space situational awareness.

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Aerospace CubeSats to Unravel Complexities of Upper Atmosphere for NASA’s LLITED Mission

Aerospace’s two 1.5U CubeSats will study the ionosphere and thermosphere, and their interactions with each other.

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Living on Mars: Aerospace Crew Accelerates Human Space Exploration Knowledge

Over a two-week mission, six experts worked and lived in an immersive, Mars-like environment, demonstrating the corporation’s drive to evolve its expertise and innovation to meet future needs.

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Dialing Up Space Talk at SXSW 2023

Aerospace leaders and experts bridged key themes of sustainability, workforce diversity and future innovations for space to new audiences at the 2023 South by South West (SXSW) conference.

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Advancing Space Domain Awareness with Aerospace’s Catcher

The payload will provide real-time local space domain awareness, noting potential environmental hazards that could affect its host spacecraft.

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Aerospace Builds Capabilities for Future Mission Needs with Ironsight

Motivated by the industry’s rising interest in rendezvous, proximity operations and docking, a team of Aerospace engineers are creating a testbed to support such operations.

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Aerospace Facility Raises the Bar for Electric Propulsion Testing

The Aerospace Corporation is continuing to expand researchers’ understanding of electric propulsion with its EP3 vacuum chamber, a new testing facility that advances the capabilities needed for…

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Aerospace Advances Massless Payloads for Space Missions

The Aerospace Corporation is pioneering a new approach to payload provisioning that leverages the ability to reassign spacecraft payloads with advanced software and enhanced capabilities that support…

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Aerospace Furthers Advancements in 3D-Printed GPS Satellite Components

The Aerospace Corporation recently contributed to the qualification of a 3D-printed omnidirectional antenna assembly for use on GPS satellites, making it the first 3D-printed GPS configuration item…

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USSF-67 and GPS III-6: Record-Breaking Back-to-Back Successful National Security Space Launches

Aerospace supported two key NSSL missions within a span of a few days, successfully delivering the USSF-67 and the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III-6 payloads to orbit.