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The Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. [1] [2] [3] Its mission is to develop the technology and systems analysis associated with small spacecraft, precision optical systems, and International Space Station technology research and development.
Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit exploration. ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
2025: 2025.02.14 [33] Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explore (SPHEREx) & Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) [36] Falcon 9: Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 East (VSFB SLC-4E) $98.8 [37] 2025.03 [38] [39] NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NI-SAR)+
[6] [21] NASA is to be responsible for the propulsion system and nuclear reactor, and DARPA is to lead the vehicle and integration requirements, mission concept of operations, nuclear regulatory approvals and launch authority. [6] The U.S. Space Force plans to launch DRACO on either a SpaceX Falcon 9 or a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur.
Second of two satellites for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission. Part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme. 2031 (TBD) [33] NGLV: D1 Satish Dhawan TLP: ISRO: ISRO: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight of ISRO's Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), codenamed Soorya. 2031 (TBD) [34] Ariane 64: Kourou ELA-4 ...
The Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) is part of the Aerospace Engineering Department and A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. The Space Systems Laboratory is centered on the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility, a 50-foot-diameter (15 m), 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) neutral buoyancy pool used to ...
In April 2020, NASA selected Masten Space Systems for a follow-on CLPS delivery of cargo to the Moon in 2022. [115] [116] On 23 June 2021, Masten Space Systems announced it was delayed until November 2023. Dave Masten, the founder and chief technology officer, blamed the delay on the COVID pandemic and industry-wide supply chain issues.