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NASA Awards Facilities Engineering Design, Inspection Services Contract
NASA · 24 Jun 2022
NASA has awarded the Facilities Engineering Design and Inspection Services (FEDIS) II contract to Vanguard Pacific LLC of Foley, Alabama, to provide architect and engineering design services at the agency’s Marshall Spac...
NASA Announces Launch Delay for Psyche Asteroid Mission
NASA · 24 Jun 2022
NASA announced Friday that the Psyche asteroid mission – the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid – will not make its planned 2022 launch attempt.
SLS readies for roll back to VAB; final launch preparations to begin
NASASpaceflight · 24 Jun 2022
With Wet Dress Rehearsal successfully behind them, NASA will now roll the SLS rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for final launch preparations ahead of the historic Artemis 1 mission to send the Orion cap...
NASA declares SLS countdown rehearsal complete
SpaceNews · 24 Jun 2022
NASA managers say they have completed testing of the Space Launch System after a recent countdown rehearsal and are ready to move into preparations for a launch as soon as late August.
NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
NASA · 24 Jun 2022
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Pysche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s website.
NASA Sets Live Launch Coverage for CAPSTONE Mission to Moon
NASA · 23 Jun 2022
NASA will air live launch coverage of the agency’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), the first spacecraft to fly a specific unique lunar orbit ahead of fut...
NASA Administrator Announces Next NAC Meeting, New Members
NASA · 22 Jun 2022
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) will convene its next meeting on August 9-10. Nelson also appointed new members to the NAC, who will provide leadership counsel and advic...
NASA Awards Contracts for Mission Enabling Services
NASA · 22 Jun 2022
NASA has awarded the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC), which consists of five individual contracts, to four companies to support highly specialized mission-enabling spaceflight and aircraft management services w...
NASA moves up Lunar Trailblazer launch
SpaceNews · 22 Jun 2022
NASA has found a new ride for a small lunar orbiter mission that will allow the spacecraft to avoid a two-year wait for its launch.
NASA Introduces 2022 Class of Flight Directors
NASA · 22 Jun 2022
NASA has selected seven new additions to the team of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, commercial crew, and Artemis missions to the Moon.
La NASA presenta a sus nuevos directores de vuelo
NASA · 22 Jun 2022
La NASA ha seleccionado a siete nuevos miembros para su cuadro de directores de vuelo, para supervisar las operaciones de las misiones de la Estación Espacial Internacional, de la tripulación comercial y del programa Art...
House bill trims NASA budget proposal
SpaceNews · 22 Jun 2022
A draft House spending bill would provide NASA with a smaller spending increase than requested for fiscal year 2023, with cuts spread among exploration, science and technology programs.
NASA encouraged by SLS countdown rehearsal
SpaceNews · 22 Jun 2022
NASA officials said they met most, but not all, of the objectives in a countdown rehearsal of the Space Launch System, and were still determining if they were ready to move ahead with the vehicle’s first launch.
NASA not planning another Artemis 1 countdown dress rehearsal
Spaceflight Now · 22 Jun 2022
Foregoing another countdown rehearsal, NASA plans to return the first Space Launch System rocket to its assembly hangar at the Kennedy Space Center next week for a hydrogen leak repair and continued preparations for lift...
NASA's InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science
NASA · 21 Jun 2022
The mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out of power sooner as a result.
Through Starling, NASA will test complex swarm operations
SpaceNews · 21 Jun 2022
NASA is preparing to launch Starling, its first satellite swarm. Instead of communicating directly with the four Starling cubesats, mission operators will send instructions to the swarm as a single entity.
NASA completes fourth Artemis 1 Wet Dress Rehearsal attempt
NASASpaceflight · 20 Jun 2022
NASA got within several seconds of completing its practice launch day exercise June 20 with the Artemis 1 vehicle on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The fourth Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test...
NASA nearly completes SLS countdown test
SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2022
NASA came within 20 seconds of completing a full countdown rehearsal of its Space Launch System rocket June 20, although it was not immediately clear if the agency got enough data from the test to be able to proceed with...
NASA’s Artemis moon rocket fully fueled for first time in practice countdown
Spaceflight Now · 20 Jun 2022
NASA loaded more than three-quarters of a million gallons of super-cold propellant into the first Space Launch System moon rocket Monday in Florida, achieving key milestones in a practice countdown but falling short of a...
Researchers use Hubble to observe dead star destroying planetary system
NASASpaceflight · 19 Jun 2022
A team of researchers using archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as other NASA observatories have observed a white dwarf consuming and d...
NASA tries again to complete moon rocket’s practice countdown
Spaceflight Now · 18 Jun 2022
Countdown clocks began ticking Saturday for NASA’s fourth attempt to complete a dress-rehearsal countdown and fueling test of its Space Launch System moon rocket, a requirement before the huge booster can be cleared for...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on booster’s 13th flight
NASASpaceflight · 17 Jun 2022
SpaceX is launched yet another 53 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. The liftoff at 12:09 PM EDT (16:08 UTC) on Friday was from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission...
Astronomers want “strong finish” for SOFIA
SpaceNews · 17 Jun 2022
The organization that operates an airborne astronomical observatory that NASA is shutting down this year wants to end the project on a high note.
VP Hosts NASA for Family STEM Event, Disney Pixar’s Lightyear Viewing
NASA · 17 Jun 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted an evening of NASA STEM activities Friday at the Naval Observatory for military families and local students and their families, which included a spe...
NASA assigns two astronauts to Starliner test flight
SpaceNews · 16 Jun 2022
NASA has assigned two veteran astronauts to the first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in the latest reshuffling of personnel assigned to the long-delayed mission.
NASA Updates Astronaut Assignments for Boeing Starliner Test Flight
NASA · 16 Jun 2022
NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots aboard the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks.
Fourth SLS countdown test set for June 20
SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2022
NASA is gearing up for a fourth attempt to perform a fueling test and practice countdown of its Space Launch System ahead of a launch now no earlier than the latter half of August.
NASA, Partner Agency Leaders to Talk to Space Station Astronauts
NASA · 15 Jun 2022
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia, and leadership from the U.S. Embassy in Rome will speak with astronauts aboard the International Sp...
ESA and NASA to cooperate on Earth science and lunar mission
SpaceNews · 15 Jun 2022
NASA and the European Space Agency announced agreements to cooperate on Earth science and a lunar mission June 15, but agency leaders said they’re still discussing more substantial cooperation on the Artemis program and...
NASA, ESA Finalize Agreements on Climate, Artemis Cooperation
NASA · 15 Jun 2022
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Josef Aschbacher signed two agreements Wednesday at the ESA Council meeting in Noordwijk, Netherlands, further advancing the space agencies’...