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Fiscal year 2023 omnibus bill provides $25.4 billion for NASA
SpaceNews · 20 Dec 2022
A fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill will provide NASA with nearly $25.4 billion, an increase of more than 5% from 2022 but less than what the agency requested.
NASA to Air Live Coverage of US Spacewalk for Solar Array Installation
NASA · 19 Dec 2022
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk on Wednesday, Dec. 21, to install a rollout solar array to increase electrical power in support of operations and scientific research.
With Hubble and Spitzer, researchers discover water-filled exoplanets
NASASpaceflight · 19 Dec 2022
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of researchers has discovered two exoplanets that may be largely comprised of water. Located around a red dwarf star 218 light-ye...
NASA signs spaceflight safety agreement with AST SpaceMobile
SpaceNews · 18 Dec 2022
NASA has signed an agreement with AST SpaceMobile to cooperate on spaceflight safety, even as astronomers grow increasingly concerned about the effects of that company’s satellites.
FAA clears Rocket Lab for first launch from U.S. spaceport
Spaceflight Now · 17 Dec 2022
Rocket Lab said Saturday that the company received final approval from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch their first mission from the United States on Sunday, clearing final regulatory and technical...
NASA postpones spacewalk to support Soyuz investigation
SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2022
NASA is delaying a spacewalk at the International Space Station by two days to support the Russian investigation into a coolant leak on a Soyuz spacecraft docked there.
Perseverance prepares to deposit Mars sample cache
SpaceNews · 17 Dec 2022
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will soon start depositing a cache of samples that it has collected since landing last year as part of efforts to eventually return those samples to Earth.
NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
NASA · 16 Dec 2022
A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit at 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday...
Falcon 9 launches ocean science mission for NASA and CNES
SpaceNews · 16 Dec 2022
A Falcon 9 successfully launched an Earth science mission jointly developed by the United States and France to monitor water levels and the effects of climate change.
SpaceX launches SWOT ocean research mission
NASASpaceflight · 16 Dec 2022
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the joint NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:46 AM PST (11:46 UTC) on Friday, Dec. 16, after a 24-ho...
NASA Awards Contract to Maintain Webb Telescope Operations
NASA · 15 Dec 2022
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract.
NASA, AST & Science Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement
NASA · 15 Dec 2022
NASA and AST & Science, a subsidiary of AST SpaceMobile, Inc., have signed a joint agreement to formalize both parties’ strong interest in the sharing of information to maintain and improve space safety.
Splashdown! NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
NASA · 11 Dec 2022
NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:39 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning...
Orion splashes down to end Artemis 1
SpaceNews · 11 Dec 2022
Fifty years to the day after the last Apollo moon mission touched down on the lunar surface, NASA’s plans to return to the moon took a major step forward with the successful splashdown of the Orion spacecraft to end the...
Space Command promotes role in Artemis 1
SpaceNews · 11 Dec 2022
As Artemis 1 nears its conclusion, U.S. Space Command is using the mission to highlight its role in supporting NASA, even as the space agency considers alternatives to some of those services.
Japanese moon lander, NASA hitchhiker payload launched by SpaceX
Spaceflight Now · 11 Dec 2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Japanese robotic moon lander and a NASA hitchhiker micro-payload called Lunar Flashlight that will seek out signs of water ice hidden...
Artemis 1 back on Earth after near-flawless 25-day moon mission
Spaceflight Now · 11 Dec 2022
NASA’s Orion spacecraft parachuted to a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday west of Baja California, marking the successful conclusion of the unpiloted Artemis 1 test flight to the moon that spanned 25-and-a-ha...
SpaceX launches Japanese lander, NASA cubesat to the Moon
Teslarati · 11 Dec 2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched a privately-developed Japanese Moon lander and a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory cubesat on their...
Boeing expanding SLS Core Stage production to KSC to build Artemis inventory
NASASpaceflight · 10 Dec 2022
Boeing, the prime contractor for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage, is adding two new work locations at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida as the company looks to support increases in the produc...
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight hitching ride to moon on SpaceX rocket
Spaceflight Now · 10 Dec 2022
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a small briefcase-size CubeSat that could break new ground in the search for water ice on the moon, is hitching a ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the privately-dev...
Orion moonship closes in for Sunday re-entry and splashdown
Spaceflight Now · 10 Dec 2022
Closing out a 25-day voyage around the moon, NASA’s Artemis 1 spacecraft closed in on Earth Saturday, on track for a 25,000-mph re-entry Sunday that will subject the unpiloted capsule to a hellish 5,000-degree inferno be...
Repairs and upgrades await SLS mobile launcher before crewed lunar mission
Spaceflight Now · 9 Dec 2022
The mobile launch platform for NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Friday for inspections and repairs after liftoff of the Artemis 1 moon mission...
NASA Commits to Future Artemis Moon Rocket Production
NASA · 9 Dec 2022
NASA has finalized its contract with Boeing of Huntsville, Alabama, for approximately $3.2 billion to continue manufacturing core and upper stages for future Space Launch System (SLS) rockets for Artemis missions to the...
NASA preparing for Orion splashdown to conclude Artemis 1
SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2022
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is in the home stretch of the Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight as the agency prepares for the vehicle’s ultimate test: reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA loses contact with ICON spacecraft
SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2022
A NASA space science spacecraft launched three years ago has been out of contact with controllers for nearly two weeks after suffering some kind of technical problem.