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• NASA monitoring increased leak in Russian ISS module SpaceNews · 29 Feb 2024 NASA says it is studying a long-running air leak on a Russian International Space Station module that recently doubled in magnitude, but that the leak does not currently pose a safety risk.
• NASA and IM Agree: Odysseus Is A Success SpacePolicyOnline.com · 29 Feb 2024 Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander, the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon in 52 years, is a success as far as the company and NASA are concerned. Despite
• Leak in ISS Russian Segment Increases, But Not an Immediate Concern SpacePolicyOnline.com · 29 Feb 2024 NASA said today the air leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station has increased, but along with Russia’s Roscosmos stressed it does not present an imminent threat.
• Intuitive Machines and NASA call IM-1 lunar lander a success as mission winds down SpaceNews · 29 Feb 2024 NASA and Intuitive Machines declared the IM-1 mission, in its final hours, an “unqualified success” despite a hard landing that left the spacecraft askew.
• NASA and SpaceX Ready for Crew-8 Space Scout · 27 Feb 2024 NASA’s next crew to depart for the International Space Station, Crew-8, are nearly ready for launch, set to embark on a voyage of scientific discovery onboard the orbiting laboratory for the benefit of all on Earth. Made...
• Crew-8 set for March 1 launch to space station SpaceNews · 26 Feb 2024 NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with a commercial crew mission to the International Space Station later this week, part of a busy schedule of missions to the station this year.
• Webb discovers neutron star within supernova remnant NASASpaceflight · 25 Feb 2024 Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has found evidence of a neutron star in the remnants of a recent supernova. T...
• Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Achieves First Landing for CLPS Space Scout · 23 Feb 2024 On Thursday, February 22nd, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander Odysseus successfully touched down on the Moon, achieving the “ultimate milestone” for the IM-1 mission and marking the first major victory for NASA’s Commerc...
• Op-Ed: Setting Up Camp, an Exploration of Artemis Space Scout · 23 Feb 2024 After decades of dreaming, We Are Going! The rockets are flying, crews are in training, and the landers are under contract. Artemis will put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon by the end of this decade...
• Vast seeks to bid on future ISS private astronaut missions SpaceNews · 22 Feb 2024 Commercial space station developer Vast Space says it plans to bid on two future NASA private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, providing competition to Axiom Space.
• Investing in Space: Former NASA official explains ‘shots on goal’ approach to cargo moon landings CNBC · 22 Feb 2024 We’re six years on from NASA declaring it would look to American companies to deliver cargo and research to the moon. Now we’re just hours away from the first potential landing
• NASA faces a quandary with its audacious lunar cargo program Ars Technica · 21 Feb 2024 Failure is now an option at the US space agency.
• NuSTAR and NICER observe same radio burst, provide hints into nature of phenomenon NASASpaceflight · 20 Feb 2024 For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the detection of random, mysterious radio bursts that seemingly originate from deep space. Recently, a team announced the detection of another one of these puzzling radio bur...
• Industry seeks more resources, policy changes to support transition from ISS to commercial space stations SpaceNews · 16 Feb 2024 Executives with two companies developing commercial space stations called on NASA and Congress to take fiscal and policy steps to avoid a space station gap they feared could cede leadership in low Earth orbit to China.
• After a decade and $1.2 billion, NASA reveals its booty from Bennu: 121 grams Ars Technica · 15 Feb 2024 A long way, and a lot of money, for half a cup.
• NASA selects ultraviolet astronomy mission but delays its launch two years SpaceNews · 15 Feb 2024 NASA has selected an ultraviolet observatory for development but will delay its launch by two years because of budget challenges.
• Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA's Perseverance Rover NASA · 13 Feb 2024 Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras.
• Uncertain Funding Threatens JPL’s Future Plans Space Scout · 10 Feb 2024 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Feb. 6 it will lay off 530 employees, about 8% of its staff, citing uncertainty about its budget for 2024. These layoffs, combined w...
• Collins performs tests of new space station spacesuit SpaceNews · 9 Feb 2024 Collins Aerospace, one of the companies with a NASA award to develop a new generation of spacesuits, has completed a series of tests of that design in a microgravity environment on an aircraft.
• Dream Chaser undergoes NASA testing ahead of first flight NASASpaceflight · 8 Feb 2024 Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser vehicle is one step closer to launching no earlier than the first half of 2024 following testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility, formerly known as Plum Brook Station, in Ohio.
• NASA’s Newest Ocean Mission Takes Flight Space Scout · 8 Feb 2024 After nearly nine years of planning, preparation, and even once being slated for cancellation entirely, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Earth-observation mission lifted off from Launch Complex 40...
• NASA Launches PACE to Advance Knowledge of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Feb 2024 Early this morning NASA launched the PACE satellite to advance understanding of the oceans, the atmosphere, and how they interact. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean-Ecosystem satellite’s launch today is the
• Falcon 9 launches PACE Earth science mission SpaceNews · 8 Feb 2024 A SpaceX Falcon 9 placed a NASA Earth science satellite into orbit Feb. 8 on a launch that was the first of its kind for the U.S. government in more than 60 years.
• As IM-1 Prepares for Launch, Questions Abound for CLPS Space Scout · 7 Feb 2024 Intuitive Machines is targeting February 14th for the launch of IM-1, the first flight of its NOVA-C robotic moon lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The spacecraft, christened O...
• JPL Lays Off Eight Percent of Workforce Amid Budget Uncertainty SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Feb 2024 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced today that it is laying off 580 people, 8 percent of its workforce, plus contractors, because Congress has not passed FY2024 appropriations. One of JPL’s
• JPL to lay off 8% of workforce SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2024 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Feb. 6 it will lay off 530 employees, about 8% of its staff, citing uncertainty about its budget for 2024.
• Falcon 9 launches PACE science satellite for NASA NASASpaceflight · 5 Feb 2024 After a record-setting month featuring 10 launches, SpaceX is gearing up for a busy February. One of the launches this month is the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) ocean science satellite, which flew abo...
• Marshall Space Flight Center Gets New Director SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Feb 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson appointed Joseph Pelfrey as the new Director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL today. Pelfrey has been acting Center Director since Jody Singer retired
• NASA’s PACE Climate Sat Ready to Fly Space Scout · 5 Feb 2024 After nearly nine years of planning, preparation, and even once being slated for cancellation entirely, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Earth-observation mission is set for launch. Initially conce...
• NASA compiling lessons learned from Artemis 1 SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2024 NASA is wrapping up an effort to collect lessons learned from the Artemis 1 mission that address both technical and programmatic issues that the agency hopes to apply more broadly to the overall Artemis lunar exploration...
• NASA Earth science mission once slated for cancellation ready for launch SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2024 A nearly billion-dollar mission to study the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere is ready to launch after surviving several cancellation attempts earlier in its development.
• While Artemis II schedule remains uncertain, NASA EGS preparing to be ready and waiting for stacking NASASpaceflight · 3 Feb 2024 At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program continues to prepare for the Artemis II circumlunar mission that was recently delayed to September 2025. EGS is finishing certification o...
• Launch Roundup: NASA’s PACE mission, Chinese art satellites, and more Starlink missions NASASpaceflight · 1 Feb 2024 February is set to get off to a busy start with two Chinese launches. A Chinese multistage solid rocket, Jielong-3, will launch from a barge in coastal waters off Yangjiang in the South China Sea on Feb. 2 at around 03:0...
• Congressional letter asks White House to reverse MSR spending cuts SpaceNews · 1 Feb 2024 More than 40 members of Congress from California have asked the White House to reverse cuts NASA has imposed on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, warning of job losses and a “decade of lost science.”
• Investing in Space: NASA panel warns astronaut moon plan may be too ambitious CNBC · 1 Feb 2024 NASA’s Artemis moon mission program regularly faces a wide swath of questions – from legislators, auditors, companies and even just the American public – about goals, timeline, cost and more.
• For the first time NASA has asked industry about private missions to Mars Ars Technica · 1 Feb 2024 "I'm curious to see if this request brings many new players to the table."
• NASA workshop to examine options for Apophis asteroid mission SpaceNews · 1 Feb 2024 NASA is hosting a workshop later this month to learn about options for low-cost missions to an asteroid that will make a close approach to the Earth in 2029, a move that has confused some scientists who believe a shelved...
• Final preparations underway for launch of first Intuitive Machines lunar lander SpaceNews · 1 Feb 2024 Intuitive Machines and NASA say they are in the final stages of preparations for the launch of that company’s first lunar lander mission, but exactly when the spacecraft will lift off remains unclear.
• New Glenn hardware assembling at Launch Complex 36 NASASpaceflight · 30 Jan 2024 As the first month of 2024 closes, Blue Origin is well into production with its orbital rocket, New Glenn. The company continues to check off major milestones as high-fidelity hardware arrives at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36...
• Op-Ed: The Load Bearing Rocket, A Falcon 9 Analysis Space Scout · 29 Jan 2024 While NASA and its international partners look to the Moon and beyond under the Artemis Program, the mid to late 2020s will see a dramatic shift to the landscape of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The International Space Station,...