Andrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others.
Collins Aerospace put a new spacesuit for International Space Station spacewalks through testing on 40 parabolic flights with Zero G.by Reuters on Wednesday ."Collins' role in the program has been bumpy and development has fallen behind schedule, and the company has been in talks with NASA officials on how to wind down its role in the program," Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the discussions.
The agency provided an update on Wednesday."After a thorough evaluation, NASA and Collins Aerospace have mutually agreed to descope the existing task orders on the Collins Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services contract," NASA said in a"This descope includes ending the International Space Station suit demonstration, which was targeted for 2026. No further work will be performed on the task orders," agency officials added.
NASA is currently grappling with issues with its current ISS spacesuits. The latest instance occurred on June 24, when aThe agency stated Wednesday that the change to the xEVAS contract"has no impact on NASA's spacewalking capabilities on the space station.
Andrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others. Andrew first caught the space bug when, as a youngster, he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time. Away from space, Andrew enjoys trail running in the forests of Finland.
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