Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing
SpaceDaily · 14 Nov 2025
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Nov 14, 2025 Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard, and in a breakthrough nailed the landing of its booste...
Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS
SpaceDaily · 14 Nov 2025
Lisbon (AFP) Nov 13, 2025 With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world's first commercial space station. Haven-1...
NASA twin spacecraft depart Earth orbit to begin Mars mission
SpaceDaily · 14 Nov 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2025 NASA's ESCAPADE mission has initiated its journey as two identical spacecraft, designed to study Mars' magnetosphere, separated and deployed from Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage. Bot...
Dream Chaser spaceplane passes pre-flight tests at Kennedy Space Center
SpaceDaily · 14 Nov 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2025 Sierra Space announced completion of a series of critical pre-flight tests for its Dream Chaser spaceplane at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, marking progress toward the vehicle's first unc...
NASA, Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind
NASA · 14 Nov 2025
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (...
Blue Origin launches twin Mars probes for NASA as New Glenn makes first landing
Spaceflight Now · 13 Nov 2025
Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the red planet's once thic...
A Robotic Helping Hand
NASA · 13 Nov 2025
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robot...
NASA Patent Remix Challenge
NASA · 13 Nov 2025
NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an existing NASA patent and develop a b...
Keeping America first in space
SpaceNews · 13 Nov 2025
In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Jim Bridenstine, former NASA Administrator and U.S. Congressman, who oversaw the launch of the Artemis program—America’s renewed effort to return astronauts...
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
SpaceNews · 11 Nov 2025
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
Lofgren Raises Alarm About Laboratory and Other Closings at NASA Goddard
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Nov 2025
The top Democrat on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is raising the alarm about actions being taken at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center during the government shutdown to
The fallacy of being first — let’s be enduring instead
SpaceNews · 10 Nov 2025
Recent reports suggest that NASA is looking to accelerate its lunar landing timeline — partly to ensure that America returns to the moon before China does. The echoes of the 1960s Space Race are unmistakable. Once again,...
European Service Module-4 is ready to sail
ESA · 10 Nov 2025
In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Ori...
Live coverage: Blue Origin to launch NASA’s Mars-bound ESCAPADE mission
Spaceflight Now · 8 Nov 2025
This will be the second launch of a New Glenn rocket and NASA's first mission to Mars since 2020. Liftoff from pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 9 at 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 U...
Sceye wins NASA award for stratospheric Earth observations
SpaceNews · 6 Nov 2025
A company developing stratospheric platforms for telecommunications and related applications has won a NASA award to use that platform for environmental monitoring.
Isaacman renomination wins support from much of the space industry
SpaceNews · 6 Nov 2025
The renomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator has been welcomed by much of the space industry, even as Isaacman defends positions he took in a policy manifesto.
Second New Glenn launch set for Nov. 9
SpaceNews · 6 Nov 2025
Blue Origin says the second launch of its New Glenn rocket, carrying a pair of NASA Mars spacecraft, is scheduled for Nov. 9.
Crafting a Democratic space policy in the Trump era
SpaceNews · 5 Nov 2025
In space policy today, Republican views dominate. The party holds majorities in the House and Senate, while the White House is stretching — or breaking — the limits of executive power. Democratic views on space are large...
White House renominates Isaacman to be NASA administrator
SpaceNews · 4 Nov 2025
The White House said Nov. 4 it is renominating Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, the latest twist in an unprecedented saga over the agency’s leadership.
Trump Will Re-Nominate Isaacman for NASA Administrator
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Nov 2025
This afternoon President Trump announced that he will nominate Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator. Isaacman was Trump’s original nominee for the job on January 20, but he withdrew it
Bolden, Bridenstine Share Their Views on Artemis
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 31 Oct 2025
Two former NASA administrators are weighing in on the Artemis program and whether the U.S. will get back to the Moon before Chinese taikonauts arrive. Charlie Bolden and his successor