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- NASA Explores Earth Science with New Navigational System NASA · 7 Feb 2025 NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while flying at high speeds up to 500 mph. The instrument is Soxnav, the culmination of more than 30...
- NASA leaders, Artemis contractors argue importance of architecture continuity for returning to the Moon Spaceflight Now · 7 Feb 2025 Representatives from NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin argued that the United States shouldn’t skip past the Moon in favor of Mars when it comes to crewed deep space exploration. The discussion came up during a panel at t...
- Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting NASA · 7 Feb 2025 A supernova and its host galaxy are the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy in question is LEDA 132905 in the constellation Sculptor. Even at more than 400 million light-years away, LEDA 132...
- Key Congressional Democrats Query DOT, NASA About Musk Conflicts of Interest SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Feb 2025 Key Democrats on the House and Senate authorizing committees that oversee space activities are questioning the Department of Transportation and NASA about the roles Elon Musk is playing at those
- NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2024 Annual Report NASA · 6 Feb 2025 The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2024 annual report Thursday examining the agency’s safety performance, accomplishments, and challenges durin...
- Robot Gets a Grip NASA · 6 Feb 2025 Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a “capture cube” in this image from Feb. 4, 2025. The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be...
- NASA CubeSat Finds New Radiation Belts After May 2024 Solar Storm NASA · 6 Feb 2025 Key Points The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the Sun rocked the planet. Brilliant auroras engulfed the skies, and some G...
- NASA’s Ethics Program NASA · 6 Feb 2025 NASA’s Ethics Program provides training and counsel to NASA employees and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the agency-wide ethics program. Headquarters and Center Chief Counsels ethics officials support th...
- NASA Revives VIPER Moon Rover Mission; Opens Call For Industry Partnership Proposals The Launch Pad · 6 Feb 2025 NASA Revives VIPER Moon Rover Mission; Opens Call For Industry Partnership Proposals
- NASA moves up target to return Butch and Suni, but not for political reasons Ars Technica · 6 Feb 2025 NASA can no longer wait on the development of a new Crew Dragon vehicle.
- Does government still fit into space? SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2025 In this week's episode of Space Minds meet the NASA visionary who‘s bridging this issue. Johnson's Space Center's Douglas Terrier explains Artemis, the agency’s evolving role and where the state still fits.
- Hsiao Smith NASA · 6 Feb 2025 Deputy Observatory Manager – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Malaysia and Singapore, Hsiao Smith — now the deputy observatory manager for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — never imagined she’d have a c...
- More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024 NASA · 6 Feb 2025 Did you know that the same search and rescue technologies developed by NASA for astronaut missions to space help locate and rescue people across the United States and around the world? NASA’s collaboration with the inter...
- NASA has entered the chat: Space agency to Twitch stream from orbit Ars Technica · 5 Feb 2025 "Twitch is one of the many digital platforms we use to reach new audiences."
- NASA Brings Space to New Jersey Classroom with Astronaut Q&A NASA · 5 Feb 2025 Students from the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School in Somerset, New Jersey, will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Nick Hague as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...
- NASA Invites Media to Learn about Spacecraft Autonomous Tech Firsts NASA · 5 Feb 2025 NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), a technology that allows individual spacecraft to make independent decisions while collaborating with...
- Wind Over Its Wing: NASA’s X-66 Model Tests Airflow NASA · 5 Feb 2025 NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently concluded wind tunnel tests of its X-66 semi-span model in partnership with Boeing. The model, designed to represent half the aircraft, allows the research te...
- NASA Goes Live: First Twitch Stream from Space Station NASA · 5 Feb 2025 For the first time, NASA is hosting a live Twitch event from about 250 miles off the Earth aboard the International Space Station, bringing new audiences closer to space than ever before. Viewers will have the opportunit...
- January 2025 Transformer of the Month: Rose Weinstein NASA · 5 Feb 2025 At the center of Dr. Rose Weinstein’s work at NASA lies a seemingly simple question: what if? “There are so many possibilities for the end of that sentence,” she says. “What if we can do it like this? What if we can make...
- After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer Ars Technica · 5 Feb 2025 "When VIPER was removed, that was definitely a setback. Our team felt that."
- Missing link still needed to save Mars Sample Return SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2025 There is a perception that NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is being delayed by indecision, but the real delay has been multiple decades of seeking a heritage propulsion solution […]
- Thales Alenia Space wins contract for Gateway airlock SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2025 The UAE has selected Thales Alenia Space to build an airlock module for the lunar Gateway despite uncertainty about the future of that NASA-led program.
- NASA Tests in Simulated Lunar Gravity to Prep Payloads for Moon NASA · 4 Feb 2025 The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, i...
- Top House Science Committee Democrat asks NASA for information on executive order implementation SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 The top Democrat on the House Science Committee is asking NASA for information on how it is complying with executive orders related to diversity measures.
- Bullseye! NASA · 4 Feb 2025 This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released on Feb. 4, 2025, shows the gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye. A far smaller blue dwarf galaxy went through the Bullseye’s center, leaving...
- Thales Alenia Space to Build Emirates Airlock for Lunar Gateway Station European Spaceflight · 4 Feb 2025 The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre of the United Arab Emirates has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to design and develop the Emirates Crew and Science Airlock Module, the country’s contribution to NASA’s Lunar G...
- NASA Demonstrates Software ‘Brains’ Shared Across Satellite Swarms NASA · 4 Feb 2025 Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This “pep talk” roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms. This technology, called Distributed Spacecraf...
- En Route to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars NASA · 4 Feb 2025 The spacecraft’s star trackers help engineers orient the orbiter throughout its long journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Europa Cl...
- In the Starlight: Anika Isaac’s Mission to Counsel NASA’s Workforce NASA · 4 Feb 2025 An interesting fact about Johnson Space Center’s Anika Isaac, MS, LPC, LMFT, LCDC, CEAP, NCC, is that there are more letters following her name than there are in it. A licensed professional counselor, marriage and family...
- NASA’s Cloud-based Confluence Software Helps Hydrologists Study Rivers on a Global Scale NASA · 4 Feb 2025 Rivers shape ecosystems and economies, yet hydrologists have limited tools to study them. Enter Confluence—a groundbreaking, open-source framework leveraging NASA’s SWOT mission and HLS data to estimate river discharge a...
- Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings NASA · 4 Feb 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow” — a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy — shot through its heart. Astron...
- NASA requests industry proposals for VIPER lunar rover partnership SpaceNews · 4 Feb 2025 NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency canceled the mission last year.
- Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc ESA · 4 Feb 2025 This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in th...
- NASA Pauses Activities of Community-Based Science Groups SpacePolicyOnline.com · 4 Feb 2025 NASA is pausing the activities and meetings of community-based groups that provide input to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The plan is to lift the suspensions after NASA ensures the groups’
- As NASA flies into turbulence, the agency could use a steady hand Ars Technica · 3 Feb 2025 Morale at the space agency is absurdly low, sources say.
- NASA Awards Contract for Airborne Science Flight Services Support NASA · 3 Feb 2025 NASA has awarded Dynamic Aviation Group Inc. of Bridgewater, Virginia, the Commercial Aviation Services contract to support the agency’s Airborne Science Program. The program provides aircraft and technology to further s...
- NASA Presses Forward Search for VIPER Moon Rover Partner NASA · 3 Feb 2025 To advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission on the Moon in collaboration with industry the agency announced Monday...
- Stacking Artemis II NASA · 3 Feb 2025 NASA’s iconic “worm” insignia stands out in this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2025, as engineers and technicians prepared to lift the left center center booster segment for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The b...
- NASA Ames Stars of the Month: February 2025 NASA · 3 Feb 2025 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Michael Flynn, Ross Beyer, and Matt Johnson. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spir...
- NASA’s InSight Finds Marsquakes From Meteoroids Go Deeper Than Expected NASA · 3 Feb 2025 With help from AI, scientists discovered a fresh crater made by an impact that shook material as deep as the Red Planet’s mantle. Meteoroids striking Mars produce seismic signals that can reach deeper into the planet tha...