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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.

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2022 A Letter from the Chair of the Board, and the President and CEO

We invite you to explore the 2022 Annual Report to learn more about how Aerospace is responding to meet the evolving needs of our partners and further U.S. leadership in space. It speaks to our…

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Aerospace Interns Improve Wildfire Detection and Monitoring Capabilities

Aerospace’s Concept Design Center (CDC) continues to empower and mentor the next generation of engineers through internships—providing hands-on opportunities for real-world impact.

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How Aerospace is Advancing Sensor Capabilities for Wildfires

With the effects of climate change becoming more prominent, Aerospace is leveraging technology and lessons learned to improve wildfire detection and monitoring.

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Expanding Integration Across Government and Commercial Space for Speed and Resiliency

Aerospace partnered with TechCrunch to bring together industry leaders and experts, helping break down barriers within the enterprise by facilitating conversations that can help drive collaboration…

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Aerospace Develops a Low Cost Cislunar Navigation Approach

Aerospace engineers are designing a cislunar position, navigation, and timing (PNT) framework to support many future missions.

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USSF-44: Space Force Successfully Completes First Mission on Falcon Heavy Rocket

USSF-44 marked the first time SpaceX's most powerful rocket was used in support of a National Security Space Launch mission.

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Diversity Scorecard: Driving Continuous Progress for DEI

Aerospace is actively monitoring the progress of DEI initiatives efforts designed to ensure inclusivity and diversity of representation.