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- NASA Shares Final Contenders for Artemis II Moon Mascot Design Contest NASA · 22 Aug 2025 NASA is down to 25 finalists for the Artemis II zero gravity indicator set to fly with the mission’s crew around the Moon and back next year. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch of NASA, and CSA (C...
- UK Space Agency Hires Consultants to Explain the UK Space Sector European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2025 The UK Space Agency has commissioned Frazer-Nash Consultancy to review the nation’s capacity to deliver on in-situ resource utilisation capabilities. According to the agency, the results of the study will be used to “inf...
- Epic Research Can Help Mars Missions NASA · 22 Aug 2025 The parachute of the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy, or EPIC, test experiment deploys following an air launch from an Alta X drone on June 4, 2025, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,...
- NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation NASA · 22 Aug 2025 Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023, is a mixture of dust that formed in our solar system, organic matter from interstellar space, and pre-solar system stardust. Its unique and varied contents we...
- Week in images: 18-22 August 2025 ESA · 22 Aug 2025 Week in images: 18-22 August 2025
- Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig NASA · 22 Aug 2025 The Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig simulates the intense cold of the lunar night, ranging from 40 Kelvin (K) to 125 K while maintaining a vacuum environment. This creates a tool by which scientists and engineers c...
- Rocket Report: Pivotal Starship test on tap, Firefly wants to be big in Japan Ars Technica · 22 Aug 2025 Starship returns to the launch pad for the first time in three months.
- Hubble Observes Noteworthy Nearby Spiral Galaxy NASA · 22 Aug 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers a new view of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2835, which lies 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). The galaxy’s spiral arms are dotted...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 22 Aug 2025 The mission will include the 1,800th Starlink satellite launched in 2025. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:02 a.m. PDT (1:02 p.m. EDT / 1702 UTC).
- SpaceX launches Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane to demo laser communications, quantum navigation Spaceflight Now · 22 Aug 2025 The uncrewed spacecraft will operate in low Earth orbit for an unspecified amount of time. This is the eighth launch of an X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle since its first flight in 2010.
- X-37B Lifts Off on Eighth Mission SpacePolicyOnline.com · 22 Aug 2025 The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center just before midnight on its eighth flight, OTV-8. Looking like a small space shuttle, the spaceplane
- NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Mission Overview NASA · 21 Aug 2025 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 2:45 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
- To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Investigating Megaripples at ‘Kerrlaguna’ NASA · 21 Aug 2025 Written by Athanasios Klidaras, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University On Mars, the past is written in stone — but the present is written in sand. Last week, Perseverance explored inactive megaripples to learn more about t...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in Ohio NASA · 21 Aug 2025 NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Ohio as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station. The...
- NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science Operations to Inform Future Missions NASA · 21 Aug 2025 While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions, including a lunar science investigat...
- Cities by the Bay NASA · 21 Aug 2025 NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this photo of California’s San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, and their suburbs on Aug. 3, 2025. At the time, the International Spac...
- Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense NASA · 21 Aug 2025 On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more t...
- NASA Invites Media to Joint Launch of Sun, Space Weather Missions NASA · 21 Aug 2025 Media accreditation is open for the launch of three observatories that will study the Sun and enhance the ability to make accurate space weather forecasts, helping protect technology systems that affect life on Earth. NA...
- France Grants Avio 10-Year Licence to Launch from Guiana Space Centre European Spaceflight · 21 Aug 2025 The French government has granted Italian launch services provider Avio a ten-year licence to carry out Vega rocket operations from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. During the 2023 Space Summit in Seville, Europ...
- X-37B set to launch on USSF-36 mission aboard Falcon 9 NASASpaceflight · 21 Aug 2025 The U.S. Department of Defense’s reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is about to make…
- SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine? Ars Technica · 21 Aug 2025 SpaceX has built an impressive production site in Texas. Will Starship success follow?
- NASA Selecting New Astronauts, Gearing Up for Artemis II SpacePolicyOnline.com · 21 Aug 2025 In four weeks, NASA will introduce a new class of astronauts as it begins gearing up for the launch of Artemis II, the first time humans will travel around the
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4636-4637: Up Against a Wall NASA · 21 Aug 2025 Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 What does a good rover do when her back is up against a wall? Fight for science! Curiosity indeed...
- Firefly Looks to Japan’s Hokkaido Spaceport for First Asia Launch Site; Signs Feasibility Study MOU The Launch Pad · 20 Aug 2025 Firefly Looks to Japan’s Hokkaido Spaceport for First Asia Launch Site; Signs Feasibility Study MOU
- X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image NASA · 20 Aug 2025 In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observ...
- NASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon Mission NASA · 20 Aug 2025 NASA is opening media accreditation for multi-day events to introduce America’s newest astronaut class and provide briefings for the Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. The activities will take place in Septem...
- NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability NASA · 20 Aug 2025 The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found that Ceres may have...
- Russia launches Bion-M No.2 research satellite NASASpaceflight · 20 Aug 2025 Russia launched the Bion-M No.2 satellite at 17:13 UTC on Wednesday, Aug. 20, aboard a…
- Viking 1 Begins Journey to Mars NASA · 20 Aug 2025 A Titan-Centaur rocket carrying the Viking 1 spacecraft launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 1 touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976, becoming the first truly su...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 20 Aug 2025 This will be the eighth flight of the X-37B and the third time that it will launched by SpaceX. The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 UTC).
- Firefly Aerospace explores launching its Alpha rocket from Japan Spaceflight Now · 20 Aug 2025 If the company moves forward with this possibility, it would present Firefly with a third launch site for its Alpha rockets.
- Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service NASA · 20 Aug 2025 Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servan...
- NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun NASA · 20 Aug 2025 Editor’s Note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2025, to correct the number of years of training data used and the model accuracy. The original article said the model was trained on 14 years of Solar Dynamics Observator...
- Iberian wildfires seen from space ESA · 20 Aug 2025 Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian Peninsula among the regions hardest hit. Flames continue to swe...
- UK Space Agency to Lose Limited Autonomy to Government Streamlining European Spaceflight · 20 Aug 2025 The UK Space Agency has announced that from April 2026 it will be absorbed into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, losing its executive agency status. In its 20 August announcement, the UK Space Agenc...
- UK Government Abolishes Independent UK Space Agency; Will Merge Into DSIT by 2026 The Launch Pad · 20 Aug 2025 UK Government Abolishes Independent UK Space Agency; Will Merge Into DSIT by 2026
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4634-4635: A Waiting Game NASA · 19 Aug 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth Planning Date: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 The downlink data from our weekend activities arrived on Earth as we star...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution NASA · 19 Aug 2025 Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to suppo...
- Sun at the Center: Teacher Ambassadors Bring Heliophysics to Classrooms Nationwide NASA · 19 Aug 2025 For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT), selected eight new educators to serve as ambassadors for heliophysics...
- NASA’s X-59 Nears First Flight NASA · 19 Aug 2025 As we honor the legacy of aviation pioneers this National Aviation Day, NASA’s X-59 is preparing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in air travel. The quiet supersonic aircraft’s historic first flight is on the ho...