XCOM – Spaceflight Now

August 25, 2019

Breaking News

[ August 24, 2019 ] Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt Mission Reports
[ August 24, 2019 ] Soyuz docking aborted at International Space Station Mission Reports
[ August 22, 2019 ] Five more Delta 4-Heavy flights in ULA backlog after final “single stick” launch Delta 4
[ August 22, 2019 ] Photos: Final “single stick” Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Delta 4
[ August 22, 2019 ] Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with GPS 3 SV02 Delta 4

X-ray communications experiment delivered to space station

May 10, 2019

A novel communications experiment developed by NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station to prove data can be transmitted in space using X-ray signals, a breakthrough that could have uses in deep space exploration and military technology on Earth.

Q&A with Keith Gendreau, principal investigator of the first X-ray space communications experiment (members only)

May 7, 2019

Keith Gendreau, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about a new experiment on the International Space Station to demonstrate X-ray communications in space for the first time.