Former Lockheed Martin President and CEO Norm Augustine will head the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, convened by the White House to review NASAâs human space program for the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA plans to retire its Space Shuttle fleet after seven more missions to complete the $100 billion International Space Station next year, and it plans to develop new vehicles that can travel to the space station as well as to the moon and other destinations in the solar system.
Mission Space Acquisition, a blank check company based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, intends to raise $100 million through an initial public offering, MarketWatch reported Thursday. The special purpose acquisition company disclosed its IPO plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. The newly incorporated SPAC in the Cayman Islands intends to focus on acquiring
Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has closed its purchase of software development firm Microtel for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to broaden its customer relationships and space system capabilities. Microtel is a systems engineering firm that develops mission-critical flight software used to operate
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab positions on a potential $4.6 billion contract to develop a lunar terrain vehicle for the space agency’s Artemis moon exploration program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to procure the LTV as a service from industry through the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services program, a milestone-based