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- Our Pale Blue Dot NASA · 18 Feb 2025 Earth is but a tiny light blue dot in this 30th anniversary version of the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” image. The original photo, taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, is now 35 years old. Voyager 1 was 3.7 b...
- Rubicon wins NASA contract to develop large ASCENT thruster SpaceNews · 18 Feb 2025 Rubicon is developing a 110-newton ASCENT thruster prototype for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
- NASA Science: Being Responsive to Executive Orders NASA · 18 Feb 2025 February 18, 2025 To the NASA Science Community – As the nation’s leader in Earth and space science, NASA Science operates within the broader context of the federal government and its priorities. As part of the Executive...
- NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun NASA · 18 Feb 2025 NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the agency’s newest space telescope. This will...
- 2024 Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station Science NASA · 18 Feb 2025 The 2024 Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station is now available. This new edition contains updated bibliometric analyses, a list of all the publications documented in fiscal year 2024, and syn...
- By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller Ars Technica · 18 Feb 2025 A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.
- NASA To Continue Use Of Artemis Crew Transporation Fleet After Canoo Bankruptcy And Closure The Launch Pad · 18 Feb 2025 NASA To Continue Use Of Artemis Crew Transporation Fleet After Canoo Bankruptcy And Closure
- Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus ESA · 18 Feb 2025 The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.
- NASA nominee previews his vision for the agency: Mars, hard work, inspiration Ars Technica · 17 Feb 2025 Jared Isaacman says NASA should invest a "reasonable amount of resources" in Mars.
- Babin’s Top Priorities: Vibrant Commercial Space Sector, Americans Back on Moon SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 Feb 2025 Rep. Brian Babin, chair of the House committee that oversees NASA and the commercial space sector, said this week that maintaining a “vibrant, prosperous commercial space sector” will be a
- NASA Inspires High School Engineering Club NASA · 14 Feb 2025 A group of enthusiastic high school students recently visited NASA to learn about facilities and capabilities that enable the agency’s researchers to explore, innovate, and inspire for the benefit of humanity. Engineerin...
- 2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology Report is Released NASA · 14 Feb 2025 NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is pleased to announce the official release of the highly anticipated 2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This significant accomplishment was...
- Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting NASA · 14 Feb 2025 Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held O...
- NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing NASA · 14 Feb 2025 With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down n...
- An Afternoon of Family Science and Rocket Exploration in Alaska NASA · 14 Feb 2025 On Tuesday, January 28th, Fairbanks BEST Homeschool joined the Geophysical Institute for an afternoon of rocket exploration, hands-on activities, and stargazing inside a planetarium. This event was free and open to the p...
- A Stellar Bouquet NASA · 14 Feb 2025 This image, released on Feb. 12, 2025, is the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue and green) with op...
- Congress seeks NASA authorization, commercial space bills SpaceNews · 14 Feb 2025 The chairs of the congressional committees that oversee civil and commercial spaceflight outlined their priorities for the new Congress.
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape NASA · 14 Feb 2025 The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years aw...
- NASA Tests Drones to Provide Micrometeorology, Aid in Fire Response NASA · 13 Feb 2025 In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized forecasting, or micrometeorology. Researchers attached wind sensors to a drone, NASA’s Alta X q...
- How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon NASA · 13 Feb 2025 Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer arrived in Florida...
- Giving NASA’s CADRE a Hand NASA · 13 Feb 2025 One of three small lunar rovers — part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) — is prepared for shipping in a clean room on Jan. 29, 2025, at NASA’s Jet P...
- Tribal Library Co-Design STEM Space Workshop NASA · 13 Feb 2025 Christine Shupla and Claire Ratcliffe Adams, from the NASA Science Activation program’s NASA@ My Library project, facilitated a professional development Co-Design Space Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (ST...
- NASA Readies Moon Rocket for the Future with Manufacturing Innovation NASA · 13 Feb 2025 NASA’s Artemis campaign will send astronauts, payloads, and science experiments into deep space on NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy-lift Moon rocket. Starting with Artemis IV, the Orion spacecraft and its ast...
- NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients NASA · 13 Feb 2025 Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock. Every living organism on Earth needs water to survive, so scientists searc...
- In the Starlight: Tristan McKnight Brings NASA’s Historic Moments to Life NASA · 13 Feb 2025 For more than a decade, Tristan McKnight has been a driving force behind some of NASA’s most iconic events, orchestrating the behind-the-scenes magic that brings each historic moment to life while sharing the agency’s ad...
- Webb Maps Full Picture of How Phoenix Galaxy Cluster Forms Stars NASA · 13 Feb 2025 Discovery proves decades-old theory of galaxy feeding cycle. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally solved the mystery of how a massive galaxy cluster is forming stars at such a high rate. The c...
- Lunar Space Station Module Will Journey to US ahead of NASA’s Artemis IV Moon Mission NASA · 13 Feb 2025 A key element of the Gateway lunar space station has entered the cleanroom for final installations after completing environmental stress tests.
- DOGE to examine NASA payments SpaceNews · 13 Feb 2025 NASA’s acting administrator says DOGE will be examining payments at the agency but that safeguards are in place to prevent conflicts of interest.
- NASA’s Polar Ice Experiment Paves Way for Future Moon Missions NASA · 12 Feb 2025 NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the Moon’s subsurface and analyze where lunar resources may reside. The experiment’s two key instruments will demonstrate our ability to ex...
- A Rainbow-colored “Feather” in the Martian Sky NASA · 12 Feb 2025 NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds tells scientists something about particle size within the clouds and...
- NASA’s Advancements in Space Continue Generating Products on Earth NASA · 12 Feb 2025 The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful transfer of agency technology to the commercial sector, is now available online. For nearly 25 years, NASA has supported crew working in l...
- Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 50 NASA · 12 Feb 2025 Why does the Moon look larger on the horizon? The short answer is, we don't know.
- NASA Telescopes Deliver Stellar Bouquet in Time for Valentine’s Day NASA · 12 Feb 2025 A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra...
- NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’ NASA · 12 Feb 2025 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer b...
- NASA announces new launch date for Crew-10, swap of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following construction delays Spaceflight Now · 12 Feb 2025 The four-member crew will now fly onboard Dragon Endurance instead of SpaceX’s fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft as originally intended. Launch has moved up to Wednesday, March 12, “pending mission readiness and completion of...
- Recognizing Employee Excellence NASA · 12 Feb 2025 Glenn Employees Earn Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers Two NASA Glenn Research Center employees were among 19 agency researchers recognized as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award...
- NASA Fire Safety Test Took on Reduced Gravity NASA · 12 Feb 2025 An experiment studying how solid materials catch fire and burn in the Moon’s gravity was launched on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital flight this month. Developed by NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland together...
- NASA Glenn Holds Day of Remembrance NASA · 12 Feb 2025 NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance on Jan. 23, honoring the members of the NASA family who lost their lives in the pursuit of exploration and discovery for the benefit of humanity. The annual event acknowledges...
- NASA Switches Crew Dragons Allowing Butch and Suni to Come Home a Couple Weeks Sooner SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Feb 2025 NASA confirmed today they will use an existing SpaceX Crew Dragon for the next routine crew replacement at the International Space Station, Crew-10, instead of a new one. The swap
- NASA and SpaceX to swap Crew Dragon spacecraft to reduce Crew-10 delay SpaceNews · 11 Feb 2025 NASA and SpaceX have agreed to switch Crew Dragon capsules to avoid further delays in the launch of a new crew to the International Space Station.