We marked an important milestone this past weekend in preparing for the IM3 mission as our Nova-C Navigation Pod completed long range thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center inside the X-Ray Cryogenic Facility (XRCF).
XRCF is the world’s largest X-ray
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Next Lunar Mission: IM-3 & Lunar Data Relay Satellite
- We’ve completed the acquisition of Goonhilly and COMSAT, expanding our space network for communications, data transport, and PNT in support of Moon Base. The network will support our IM‑3 and Altus‑1 missions along with the growing mission cadence of civil, national security, and
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