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 ...

Sadly, the space agency fears the worst. NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission has not communicated with ground stations since November 25 due to some sort of glitch the space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA officials re-established contact Wednesday after losing touch with a $32.7 million satellite with a key role to play in the space agency’s long-term effort to return to the Moon.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...