L3Harris Orders Space Exploration & Science Missions Boeing NASA

NASA • Charles G. Hatfield

L3Harris delivers modified Boeing 777 research aircraft to NASA, five weeks ahead of schedule

L3Harris, with Yulista, delivered a heavily modified Boeing 777 research aircraft to NASA five weeks early. NASA says the returned airframe is back in the agency fleet after major structural modifications, positioning it for its first science mission flight in January.

Flying Magazine • Jack Daleo

Modified Boeing 777 Will Become NASA’s Largest Flying Science Lab

aerospaceglobalnews.com • Khalem Chapman

NASA’s ‘new’ Boeing 777 returns to Langley after completing key upgrades

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Space.com • Elizabeth Howell

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'

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Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Space Policy & International Cooperation

NASA Spaceflight • Ryan Weber

Starship Progress at the Cape with Hoping to Launch this year

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Iridium plans to launch PNT ASIC in July to support higher-power GNSS backup for GPS

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SpaceNews.com • Jeff Foust

Jordan signs the Artemis Accords

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NASA Welcomes Jordan as 63rd Artemis Accords Signatory

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Nation #63 Has Joined NASA's Moon Exploration Initiative...

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Satellite Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs) Airbus

Runway Girl • Mary Kirby

Gilat confident on entering Airbus catalog as airframer goes modular

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Mars Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Space Exploration & Science Missions

Space.com • Andrew Jones

Japan's audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

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Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Space Exploration & Science Missions Commercial Space NASA

Payload • Elizabeth Howell

Astrobotic Hotfires Engine That Could Power Moon Missions

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L3Harris delivers modified Boeing 777 research aircraft to NASA, five weeks ahead of schedule

Modified Boeing 777 Will Become NASA’s Largest Flying Science Lab

NASA’s ‘new’ Boeing 777 returns to Langley after completing key upgrades

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'

Starship Progress at the Cape with Hoping to Launch this year

Iridium plans to launch PNT ASIC in July to support higher-power GNSS backup for GPS

Jordan signs the Artemis Accords

NASA Welcomes Jordan as 63rd Artemis Accords Signatory

Nation #63 Has Joined NASA's Moon Exploration Initiative...

Gilat confident on entering Airbus catalog as airframer goes modular

Japan's audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

Astrobotic Hotfires Engine That Could Power Moon Missions

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Iridium plans to launch PNT ASIC in July to support higher-power GNSS backup for GPS

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'

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