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• NASA agrees to provide launcher for UK-built lunar communications satellite Spaceflight Now · 15 Jun 2022 NASA and the European Space Agency have agreed that a pathfinder data relay satellite to support missions on the polar regions and the far side of the moon will be launched on a commercial rocket from the United States,...
• Sierra Space to start astronaut training program SpaceNews · 14 Jun 2022 Sierra Space is creating an astronaut training program led by a company executive and former NASA astronaut as another step in developing a crewed version of its Dream Chaser vehicle and a commercial space station.
• NASA, Partner Establish New Research Group for Mars Sample Return Program NASA · 14 Jun 2022 Sixteen scientists from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan have been chosen to help future samples from the Red Planet achieve their full potential.
• NASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images NASA · 14 Jun 2022 NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning a...
• Ninth asteroid added to Lucy mission; optimism grows on solar array issue Spaceflight Now · 14 Jun 2022 Engineers have made progress in attempts to fully unfurl a solar array wing that snagged on NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer shortly after launch last October, adding to optimism that the spacecraft can complete its 12-year...
• SpaceX, NASA blame Cargo Dragon leak on faulty valve, delay launch further Teslarati · 14 Jun 2022 NASA and SpaceX have delayed Cargo Dragon’s CRS-25 space station resupply mission another two weeks after the company narrowed down the cause...
• NASA Discoveries Highlighted at American Astronomical Society Meeting NASA · 13 Jun 2022 Scientists will discuss new research from NASA missions – on topics ranging from exoplanets to citizen science discoveries – at the 240th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
• SpaceX faces NASA hurdle for Starship backup launch pad Reuters · 13 Jun 2022 NASA wants Elon Musk's SpaceX to ensure its plan to launch its next-generation Starship rocket from Florida would not put at risk nearby launch infrastructure critical to the International Space Station, a senior space a...
• Photos: Artemis 1 rocket hauled to launch pad for another countdown rehearsal Spaceflight Now · 12 Jun 2022 NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket rolled out to pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on June 6, preparing for another countdown rehearsal later this month to try loading cryogenic propellants into the massive launcher.
• Two hurricane research satellites lost in Astra launch failure Spaceflight Now · 12 Jun 2022 Two small NASA hurricane research satellites were destroyed after launch Sunday from Cape Canaveral when their commercial rocket, provided by Astra, prematurely shut down its upper stage engine before reaching the missio...
• Astra launch of NASA TROPICS cubesats fails SpaceNews · 12 Jun 2022 An Astra launch of two NASA cubesats to monitor tropical storms failed June 12 when the rocket’s upper stage shut down prematurely.
• Astra launch fails on first TROPICS flight for NASA NASASpaceflight · 12 Jun 2022 The first of three flights to launch the TROPICS satellites for NASA lifted off on Sunday during at 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC). Astra’s LV0010 vehicle launched from SLC-46 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, making t...
• Europa Clipper’s main body complete, teams continue work toward 2024 launch NASASpaceflight · 11 Jun 2022 In early June, the main body of NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and was shipped to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California soon after. The arrival of Europa Clipper...
• NASA to Discuss, Conduct Test to Prepare for Artemis I Moon Mission NASA · 10 Jun 2022 NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with tanking operat...
• Efforts continue to fully deploy Lucy solar array SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2022 Leaders of NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission are increasingly confident that the mission can continue as planned even if ongoing efforts to fully deploy and latch a solar array don’t succeed.
• NASA Student Business Competition Gets Boost by White House Initiative NASA · 10 Jun 2022 NASA’s Minority University Education and Research Program (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC), a Shark Tank-style competition for students at minority-serving institutions, is officially includ...
• NASA embraces high-risk, high-reward research with UAP study SpaceNews · 10 Jun 2022 NASA will commission a small independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a move the agency says is part of its desire to support risky research that has the potential for high payoffs.
• NASA to purchase five more Dragon crew missions from SpaceX Spaceflight Now · 10 Jun 2022 NASA says it plans to buy five more crew rotation missions on SpaceX’s fleet of Dragon spaceships, bringing SpaceX’s contract with the space agency to 14 operational astronaut launches, likely enough to keep the Internat...
• Astra to begin three-launch campaign with NASA hurricane research satellites Spaceflight Now · 10 Jun 2022 Astra is preparing to launch the first of three straight dedicated missions for NASA this weekend at Cape Canaveral to deploy six shoebox-size hurricane research satellites, helping pioneer a new paradigm of riskier but...
• NASA Offers Earth Scientist Interviews Ahead of TROPICS Mission NASA · 9 Jun 2022 NASA and Astra Space are targeting no earlier than Sunday, June 12, for the first launch of NASA's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mis...
• NASA audit reveals massive overruns in SLS mobile launch platform SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2022 A new mobile launch platform that Bechtel is building for NASA will cost up to four times as much as originally planned and could push back the first launch of an upgraded version of the Space Launch System to the late 2...
• NASA’s second mobile launcher is too heavy, years late, and pushing $1 billion Ars Technica · 9 Jun 2022 "We found Bechtel's poor performance is the main reason."
• NASA to Discuss New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Today NASA · 9 Jun 2022 NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT today – Thursday, June 9 – to discuss a new study team the agency is commissioning to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).
• Psyche launch delay forcing revamp of rideshare mission SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2022 A delay in the launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is forcing another asteroid mission hitching a ride to revise its plans.
• Astra ready for first of three NASA TROPICS launches SpaceNews · 9 Jun 2022 Astra Space is preparing to conduct the first of three launches of NASA cubesats to monitor tropical storms as soon as June 12, pending receipt of a launch license.
• NASA Administrator, STEM Partner Connect Orlando Children with Artemis NASA · 8 Jun 2022 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson helped hand out food with an extra serving of STEM activities to children and families at New Beginnings Church – The Gathering Place in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, June 3.
• NASA Leadership to Advocate for Agency Missions at ESA Council Meeting NASA · 8 Jun 2022 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will travel to Noordwijk, Netherlands, to participate in the ESA (European Space Agency) Council Meeting on Wednesday, June 15.
• NASA, FEMA Release Comprehensive Climate Action Guide NASA · 8 Jun 2022 NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have released a guide which provides resources for adapting to and mitigating impacts of climate change.
• NASA assesses micrometeoroid impact on James Webb mirror segment Spaceflight Now · 8 Jun 2022 A high-speed dust-size micrometeoroid slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s 18 primary mirror segments last month, causing a slight but noticeable effect on the segment’s performance, NASA said Wednesday....
• NASA to Inflate Heat Shield on Earth Before Spaceflight Demo NASA · 7 Jun 2022 NASA is inviting media to see a technology that could one day help land humans on Mars after it is inflated for the final time on Earth before its spaceflight demonstration later this year.
• NASA and SpaceX stand down on Dragon launch to study hydrazine issue Ars Technica · 7 Jun 2022 Misplaced hypergols are not something one messes around with.
• SpaceX, NASA call off Cargo Dragon launch after discovering fuel leak Teslarati · 7 Jun 2022 SpaceX and NASA have decided to call off an imminent Cargo Dragon 2 space station resupply mission after discovering a possible fuel...
• NASA’s SLS moon rocket returns to launch pad for more testing Spaceflight Now · 6 Jun 2022 NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out to its launch pad early Monday at the Kennedy Space Center for another attempt later this month to fully load it with super-cold propellants, the culmination of a c...
• SpaceX’s NASA Crew Dragon launch manifest doubles in three months Teslarati · 6 Jun 2022 NASA says it will soon award SpaceX another five Crew Dragon astronaut transport contracts after purchasing three extra missions from the company...
• Cargo Dragon mission postponed to investigate potential propellant leak SpaceNews · 6 Jun 2022 NASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch of a cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station after discovering a potential propellant leak in the spacecraft’s thrusters.
• Small NASA lunar probe to hitch ride on commercial moon mission Spaceflight Now · 6 Jun 2022 NASA’s Lunar Flashlight — a small satellite to search for water ice in dark craters near the moon’s poles — will launch as a piggyback payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial lunar lander after delays cause...
• NASA rolling Artemis 1 back to the pad to finish WDR NASASpaceflight · 5 Jun 2022 The first integrated Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar test flight is returning to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in hopes of finishing the last...
• NASA to Highlight Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets TV Coverage NASA · 3 Jun 2022 NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:22 a.m. EDT Friday, June 10, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station.
• NASA Announces Winners of 2022 Student Launch Competition NASA · 3 Jun 2022 For the second year in a row, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte won the launch division, while Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, won first place in the design division of NASA’s 2022 Student L...
• NASA Invites Media to Learn About Mission Studying Thunderstorms NASA · 3 Jun 2022 NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. CDT Tuesday, June 7, to discuss research about intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States and their effects on Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.