NASA recently lost contact with an atmosphere-studying satellite working beyond its design lifetime. NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) fell out of contact on Nov. 25, and the mission ...

On Nov. 25, 2022, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) team lost contact with the spacecraft. The ICON spacecraft is equipped with a built-in onboard command loss timer that will power ...

Space agency NASA has awarded construction company ICON a $57 million contract to develop 3D-printing technology to build roads, launchpads and homes on the moon's surface. The contract ...

NASA's ICON spacecraft has been out of contact since Nov. 25 after experiencing some kind of malfunction. Credit: NASA GSFC/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith WASHINGTON — A NASA space science spacecraft ...

Austin, Texas-based 3D printing construction company ICON has gotten some pretty significant projects off the ground in recent years, from a 50-home development in Mexico to a 100-home neighborhood in ...

Through a $57 million contract with NASA, ICON, a company out of Austin, is working to do just that. ICON wants to put a broad spectrum of infrastructure on the moon, which isn’t the easiest ...

An Austin company will play a key role as NASA aims to return to the moon and establish a base camp on the lunar surface. Icon, the Austin-based construction company that uses giant 3D printers to ...

ICON and NASA plan to realize a 3D-printed habitat on the Moon that would be constructed using lunar materials. (Courtesy ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) This isn’t the first time the U.S. agency ...