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The End of Traditional GPS? This Space Mission Is About to Revolutionize Our Lives

The upcoming mission of the US military’s X-37B orbital test vehicle, scheduled for August 21, 2025, is set to test an innovative quantum-based inertial navigation system, marking a significant leap ...
GovCon Wire

Intuitive Machines to Acquire Deep Space Navigation Company KinetX

“Bringing KinetX in-house gives us both flight-proven deep space navigation expertise and the proprietary software behind some of the most ambitious missions in the solar system. These capabilities ...
Jalopnik

Space Force's Next Spaceplane Mission Will Test Navigation Without GPS Using Quantum Sensors

The U.S. Space Force (and the Air Force before it) have been flying the Boeing X-37B spaceplane drone since 2010, demonstrating how advanced vehicles like this could maneuver on orbit and testing out ...
Seeking Alpha

Intuitive Machines Expands Deep Space Navigation Services with Agreement to Acquire KinetX, Positioning Itself for Constellation Management and Moon-to-Mars Data Relay

HOUSTON, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Machines, Inc. (LUNR) (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a leading space technology, infrastructure, and services company, today announced it ...
GovCon Wire

Intuitive Machines Closes KinetX Purchase

Intuitive Machines has finalized its acquisition of aerospace company KinetX as part of a push to broaden its deep space navigation and constellation management capabilities and related offerings for ...
Univeristy of Iowa Daily Iowan

Q&A | UI graduate student receives $150,000 grant from NASA to build telescope for deep space navigation

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...