Lockheed Martin and General Motors are partnering to create a lunar terrain vehicle that, if selected by NASA, could be used in its Artemis program that will return humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin, with its space division headquarters in Denver, said it will lead the team with expertise in deep-space crafts while GM will […]
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Colorado-based flight controllers send NASA spacecraft on 2-year trip back to earth with rubble from an asteroid
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years. Osiris-Rex […]
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Colorado’s Aerospace Alley prepares for Space Command move to Alabama
By Dan Boyce, CPR News COLORADO SPRINGS — When Kathy Boe heard the news in January that President Donald Trump was moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, she understood why Trump was making the move — even though she expected Colorado Springs to be the frontrunner in the […]
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The first images of OSIRIS-REx touching an asteroid have made it back to Earth
NASA’s first mission to touch an asteroid and collect a sample of pristine space dirt is now viewable in high-resolution images sent overnight Tuesday from 200 million miles away. The OSIRIS-REx mission completed its first and possibly only touchdown on the asteroid Bennu at approximately 4:12 p.m. on Tuesday, as operators and engineers monitored the […]
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How Colorado shaped NASA’s first mission to collect asteroid dirt
Four years after leaving Earth, a pogo stick developed in Littleton will touch the surface of the asteroid Bennu, use a vacuum cleaner in reverse to blow up asteroid dirt and catch anything that falls into its ring-shaped container, and then hop back up to the spacecraft that’s been orbiting the asteroid for the past […]
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How does Colorado’s Lockheed Martin keep future engineers interested in space? By asking them to design robot cars.
The room was abuzz with pint-sized autonomous vehicles, mind-numbing calculations and geeks in shoe socks. Julia Harvey had heard about the curious Lockheed Martin Space Systems event from a school newsletter and thought, “Oh, that looks really cool!” So, the Colorado School of Mines computer science major spent Halloween morning training her AWS DeepRacer (on […]
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Lockheed Martin sniffs around for space in Grand Junction
An oh-by-the-way comment dropped into a recent Club 20 address by Gov. Jared Polis may—or may not — signal a significant economic development win for the Western Slope city of Grand Junction that has been wooing the aerospace industry. Polis was speaking to the Western Slope coalition of counties at their annual fall meeting Saturday […]
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St. Vrain, with a decade of momentum, is on a “high-tech high” that’s gaining national attention for its students and teachers
Eric Berngen realized just how different a learning environment he had signed up for when he almost stepped on a small robot zooming down a hallway at Skyline High School in Longmont during his first week on the job. “It was surreal,” Berngen recently said of the near collision with the robot a student was […]