Space & Spaceflight NASA’S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent The mission team lost contact with the ionosphere-probing spacecraft two weeks ago and hasn't heard from it since.

Nearly five years after it launched, NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer -- or ICON -- mission has officially come to an end, the space agency announced Wednesday.

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 ...

A NASA space science spacecraft launched three years ago has been out of contact with controllers for nearly two weeks after a technical problem.

This week the company won a NASA contract that will help it get an even bigger project much further off the ground—all the way to the moon, in fact. The $57.2 million contract is intended to help ICON ...

NASA has awarded ICON a $57.2 million contract to research and eventually realize a full-fledged lunar habitation.

NASA partnered with Austin 3D printing company ICON to build habitats and infrastructure that could help future explorers of the moon and Mars.

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 ...

The moon may be the next hot real-estate development opportunity. Austin-based 3D home printing company Icon won a $57.2 million contract with NASA to develop technology to help build lunar ...

The Austin-based homebuilder ICON is making one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind by signing a $57 million contract with NASA to build on the moon.

Days after a fire raged at its South Austin headquarters, Icon has announced a $57 million NASA contract to "support planned exploration of the moon and beyond," according to a Nov. 29 announcement.