SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk will appear as a keynote speaker at the SATELLITE 2020 Conference and Exhibition on Monday, March 9 at 4:00 p.m. EST at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. In addition to SpaceX, Musk also leads electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla as its CEO and product architect.…

Blue Origin has pushed back its NS-12 mission on a New Shepard rocket to Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 11:00 a.m. EST due to unfavorable weather conditions. “We are continuing to monitor weather conditions and will post an update at T-2 hours,” the company tweeted on Tuesday. The NS-12 mission will be its ninth commercial payload…

Blockchain hardware wallet technology from SpaceChain has reached the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of a CRS-19 commercial resupply service mission. According to SpaceX, its Dragon spacecraft reached the ISS on Dec. 8.  This is the first technology demonstration of blockchain hardware on the ISS, and it will be…

Sypris Electronics has received contract awards from Collins Aerospace to manufacture and test electronic assemblies for the environmental control and life support, and the power management and distribution systems of the Orion spacecraft. Production will begin in 2019 and continue into 2020.  Orion is part of NASA’s Artemis program, which plans to take humans back…