MORGANTOWN — Engineers at West Virginia University are helping to solve one of the greatest limitations of space exploration — sending and receiving information between a spacecraft […]
Tag: NASA
Gov.’t can fund SpaceX but not infrastructure?
There’s a fine line between a public-private partnership and a government handout. A private-public partnership would be akin to the West Virginia Legislature approving $37 million in […]
Marion County firm lands $24M NASA contract
FAIRMONT – If you want to hear about that $24 million NASA contract, you have to take the car tour, first. One look at rocket ship-styled hood […]
Morgantown software engineer, Fairmont tech firm, play key role in NASA’s first battery-powered airplane
FAIRMONT – TMC Technologies of Fairmont is playing a key role in NASA’s development of its first all-electric experimental airplane, the X-57 Maxwell. TMC Senior Systems Engineer […]
Lesson of a little helicopter on Mars
The little helicopter weighs only 4 pounds, and its first flight lasted a mere 30 seconds and reached an altitude of only 10 feet. But it did […]
ETAM Earth Station sold to Deep Space Network
Duke Jordan, a sales professional with Great Expectations Realty Commercial division in Charleston, said Etam Earth Station was sold to Deep Space Network LLC for about $1.5 […]
New Space Age hampered by old tech
by Andrew Holland and Stephane Lintner The world is entering an exciting new Space Age. Where once the superpowers competed in a space race to the moon, […]
Prepare for Takeoff
BY ALDONA BIRD Newsroom@DominionPostWV With the exciting success of NASA’s rover Perseverance landing on Mars this past week, this is the perfect time to engage (with or without […]
A mission to Mars — by way of Marion County
Almost heaven … definitely Mars. NASA’s “Perseverance” rover successfully touched down on The Red Planet’s surface Thursday afternoon. The space agency is now hoping for an equally […]
WVU event discusses legacy of Katherine Johnson
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was an icon of endurance and resilience in the face of adversity, biases and restrictions. While breaking barriers in space exploration, she was […]
