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- Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman NASA · 24 Jun 2026 A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, lau...
- NASA’s inspector general warns launch sites nearing capacity SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2026 A report by NASA’s inspector general is the latest to highlight the problems that the increasing number of launches is posing to spaceports.
- NASA Names Sean Gallagher as Chief Information Officer NASA · 23 Jun 2026 NASA has selected Sean Gallagher as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). In this role, he is responsible for the agency’s entire portfolio of Information Technology products and services. Gallager has been servi...
- NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline Spaceflight Now · 23 Jun 2026 The uncrewed flight of the spacecraft is still going through testing and analysis before NASA green lights a return to flight mission.
- CSDA Selects Eight Commercial Satellite Data Providers for On-Ramp 2 Contract Awards NASA · 23 Jun 2026 Eight commercial data providers received contracts to provide a range of data in support of NASA’s Earth science priorities.
- 58th Girl Scouts Unite Event NASA · 23 Jun 2026 58th Girl Scouts Unite Event, July 23-25, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #206) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. Thursday, July 23 11:00AM – 11:15 AMFrom Daisy to NASA En...
- 2026 ALA Hyperwall Schedule NASA · 23 Jun 2026 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, June 25-29, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #2243) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 SATURDAY, JUNE 2...
- This is How NASA Flight Tests New Technology NASA · 23 Jun 2026 Flight tests are a big part of how NASA turns breakthrough ideas into reality. From flying humans faster than the speed of sound to proving designs that helped shape the space shuttle, flight testing transforms bold conc...
- ESA Details Next Steps for Agency’s Gateway Contributions European Spaceflight · 23 Jun 2026 The European Space Agency (ESA) has made initial decisions on the future of its contributions to NASA’s Gateway space station after the US space agency “paused” the programme. The agency largely expects to proceed with d...
- I Am Artemis: Jason Peterson NASA · 23 Jun 2026 Jason Peterson’s responsibilities for NASA’s Artemis II mission went beyond his usual role as the range operations manager at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Peterson credits his military exp...
- Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood NASA · 23 Jun 2026 Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected — ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the big bang.
- NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy NASA · 23 Jun 2026 Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a scientifically unique sight to behold, and now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed previousl...
- Loft Orbital to test AI models on spacecraft for Earth observation SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2026 Loft Orbital is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test the use of artificial intelligence on spacecraft to improve Earth science monitoring.
- NASA IG Cites Dire NASA Launch Infrastructure Needs SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Jun 2026 A new report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General spells out dire launch infrastructure needs at Kennedy Space Center and Wallops Flight Facility. One solution is for Congress to pass
- NASA and Boeing still uncertain about when Starliner will return to flight SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2026 NASA’s safety advisers say that while the agency and Boeing make progress in addressing problems with the CST-100 Starliner, it could be up to a year before it flies again.
- Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets Ars Technica · 22 Jun 2026 SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
- NASA Awards Solutions for Federal Enterprise Procurement Contracts NASA · 22 Jun 2026 NASA will begin processing the awards of multiple contracts for the Solutions for Enterprise‑wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-wide Acquisition Contract. The contract provides streamlined access to commercial product...
- NASA Sounding Rocket to Launch Student Experiments NASA · 22 Jun 2026 NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the agency’s RockSatX and RockOn programs Wednesday, June 24, between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. EDT,...
- NASA Invites Media to Botswana Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony NASA · 22 Jun 2026 The Republic of Botswana will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 25, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Botswana’s Minister of Co...
- NASA’s Experimental Fabrication Branch Fuels Aircraft Innovation NASA · 22 Jun 2026 At NASA, innovation begins well before an aircraft takes flight. The Experimental Fabrication Branch at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, transforms engineering concepts into mission‑ready h...
- NASA’s Chandra Finds Possible Supernova Remnant NASA · 22 Jun 2026 Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant – seen in this June 11, 2026, image – in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. Supernova remnan...
- NASA to Cover US Spacewalk 95, Host Preview News Conference NASA · 22 Jun 2026 NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8 a....
- NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS NASA · 22 Jun 2026 As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to turn NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope in its direction and capture detailed measurements of it...
- NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida Spaceflight Now · 22 Jun 2026 The $4.3 billion observatory will go through about 70 days of prelaunch processing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before it launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket no earlier than August 30.
- Astrobotic says sale to Voyager will allow it to scale up SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2026 Lunar lander developer Astrobotic decided to sell to Voyager Technologies so it could quickly scale up to meet the projected demands of NASA’s lunar base initiative.
- NASA Prepares Next Artemis Rocket for Flight Space Scout · 19 Jun 2026 As Artemis III kicks off, NASA continues working to streamline SLS production.
- NASA selects mission to study space weather interaction with Earth’s atmosphere SpaceNews · 19 Jun 2026 NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere.
- Mu-g Technologies enters the parabolic flight business SpaceNews · 19 Jun 2026 A startup has acquired an aircraft to offer commercial parabolic flight services even as NASA seeks to acquire its own aircraft for reduced-gravity research.
- NASA Mission to Study Space Weather Impacts of Earth’s Atmosphere NASA · 18 Jun 2026 NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS...
- NASA's $1.1 billion Gateway habitation module is unlikely to be used for something else Ars Technica · 18 Jun 2026 "We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
- NASA Awards Contract for Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition NASA · 18 Jun 2026 NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers,...
- From Suriname to Space: Rohit Goeptar’s Shares his Journey to NASA NASA · 18 Jun 2026 Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America, the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to...
- Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype NASA · 18 Jun 2026 Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a...
- NASA Testing Advanced Capabilities for Moon, Mars Rovers NASA · 18 Jun 2026 On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled about 16 miles (26 kilometers) with minimal intervention from the team of engineers trailing it. Called ERN...
- NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid NASA · 18 Jun 2026 Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in...
- NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid NASA · 18 Jun 2026 Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in...
- Stages of Star Formation NASA · 18 Jun 2026 This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a small portion of one of the Orion Molecular Clouds, a long and massive filament of cold gas and dust beyond the Orion N...
- Swift reboost mission ready for launch SpaceNews · 18 Jun 2026 A high-risk mission to raise the orbit of a NASA astrophysics spacecraft is set to launch later this month after less than a year of development.
- Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters NASA · 18 Jun 2026 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters at X-ray and radio w...
- NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science NASA · 17 Jun 2026 NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation. Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus atmospheric‑sci...