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Peraton grand opening of Redstone Gateway facility ‘a signficant investment’ in its mission

Bud McLaughlin - March 18, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- With a design to further support federal customers and their critical missions in national security, Peraton opened a state-of-the-art facility today. “We are...

NASA lander tests ‘vacuum cleaner’ on moon for sample collection

Beth Ridgeway - March 7, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- Among all the challenges of voyaging to and landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples...

‘Cool factor’: Space & Rocket Center chief, UAH alum Robinson named to Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame

Ann Marie Martin - March 5, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- When Dr. Kimberly Robinson, CEO and executive director of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, was growing up in Birmingham, a NASA...

UAH breakthrough enables measurement of dark matter density

Russ Nelson - March 1, 2025

HUNTSVILLE – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and her...

Tuberville: After Air Force chief confirmed, process to move Space Command to Huntsville begins

Austen Shipley - February 26, 2025

WASHINGTON -- With President Donald Trump back in the White House, it looks as if Space Command may finally move to Redstone Arsenal in...

SpaceX awarded Marshall-managed, $100M planetary defense contract

Bud McLaughlin - February 25, 2025

HUNTSVILLE -- As an asteroid approaches Earth, NASA has awarded a contract to SpaceX for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, managed by the Marshall...

Space & Rocket Center’s Intuitive Planetarium one of USA Today’s 10Best

Bud McLaughlin - February 20, 2025

HUNTSVILLE – Though it's just a few years old, the Intuitive Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center has made an impact. In a...

Marshall Space Flight Center impact not yet known as NASA faces 10% cuts agencywide

Bud McLaughlin - February 18, 2025

WASHINGTON -- The DOGE axe came down on NASA this afternoon as about 10% of the space agency's workforce was cut as part of...

Bezos-founded Blue Origin cutting 10% of workforce

Bud McLaughlin - February 13, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Just a month after the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket, Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin said it is cutting about 10%...

NASA invests in Artemis studies to support long-term lunar exploration

Bud McLaughlin - February 9, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Huntsville's contributions to the nation's space program continues with the recent announcement by NASA to award study contracts to help support life...

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