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- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day NASA · 6 Aug 2025 ‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the six-wheeled scientist. The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear...
- Duffy Approves Moving a Space Shuttle to Houston SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Aug 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has approved moving a space shuttle to Houston in accordance with language in the reconcilation act. NASA will only confirm that a decision was made,
- NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires NASA · 6 Aug 2025 After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in...
- Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site NASA · 6 Aug 2025 NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be...
- Mississippi Attorney Serves NASA and the Nation NASA · 6 Aug 2025 Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the summer of 2023 to begin work as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA...
- DLR Completes Key Component for the Callisto Demonstrator’s Landing Legs European Spaceflight · 6 Aug 2025 The German aerospace agency DLR has completed the manufacturing of a key component of the thermal protection system for the landing legs of its Callisto reusable booster demonstrator. The Callisto project is a trilateral...
- Impulse Space unveils upgraded Mira spacecraft, expanding capabilities beyond LEO NASASpaceflight · 6 Aug 2025 Impulse Space, the aerospace firm founded by Tom Mueller—the engineering mastermind behind SpaceX’s Merlin and…
- Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch ESA · 6 Aug 2025 Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, F...
- First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit ESA · 6 Aug 2025 ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft o...
- When martian ground falls apart ESA · 6 Aug 2025 In its latest postcard from Mars, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express returns to Acheron Fossae: a dramatic network of chasms carved into the surface of the Red Planet.
- Hubble sizes up rare interstellar comet ESA · 6 Aug 2025 A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
- In Moon Race with China, Duffy Wants Fission Surface Power SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Aug 2025 Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wants a nuclear fission reactor on the Moon to support sustained U.S. presence there. Asserting that the United States is in a Moon race with
- NASA Selects Six Companies for Multi-Orbit Spacecraft Delivery Study The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2025 NASA Selects Six Companies for Multi-Orbit Spacecraft Delivery Study
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of...
- NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies NASA · 5 Aug 2025 NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA · 5 Aug 2025 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos co...
- NASA Science Activation Teams Unite to Support Neurodiverse Learners with Public Libraries NASA · 5 Aug 2025 On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted by two NASA Science Activation program teams: NASA...
- What is NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy? NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Astronauts living and working on the Moon...
- UK Regulator Grants First Vertical Launch License to Scottish Rocket Firm Skyrora NASASpaceflight · 5 Aug 2025 After nearly a three-year wait, Scottish space company Skyrora has secured the United Kingdom’s first…
- Second Lady Usha Vance, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Celebrate Reading NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Second Lady Usha Vance and NASA Astronaut Suni Williams listen to the audience in this image from Aug. 4, 2025. Ms. Vance joined Williams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a summer reading challenge event, th...
- How SpaceX modified Pad 1 for Ship Static Fire tests to cover Massey’s downtime NASASpaceflight · 5 Aug 2025 Following the energetic RUD of Ship 36 at Massey’s on June 18, teams at the…
- Skyrora Secures Launch Licence for Suborbital Skylark L Rocket European Spaceflight · 5 Aug 2025 The UK Civil Aviation Authority has granted Skyrora a launch licence to conduct flights of its suborbital Skylark L rocket from SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland. Standing 11 metres tall, the Skylark L is a single-stage roc...
- First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing ESA · 5 Aug 2025 As preparations to launch Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1 satellite continue on track, the team at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid a heartfelt farewell to this precious satellite...
- Poland’s SpaceForest Completes Qualification of PERUN Rocket Engine European Spaceflight · 4 Aug 2025 Polish rocket builder SpaceForest has completed the final hot fire test of its SF-1000 rocket engine. The company is now preparing for the next test flight of its 11.5-metre suborbital PERUN rocket, which will be powered...
- Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit? Ars Technica · 4 Aug 2025 "We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly."
- Launch Roundup: Vulcan and Electron to launch between Falcon 9 missions NASASpaceflight · 4 Aug 2025 Four rockets are scheduled to launch from the U.S. this week. SpaceX is planning to…
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4616-4617: Standing Tall on the Ridge NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 The day started with a little celebration of NISAR, a new Earth observation sate...
- NASA Ends Lunar Trailblazer Mission; Spacecraft To Drift Into Deep Space After Loss of Contact The Launch Pad · 4 Aug 2025 NASA Ends Lunar Trailblazer Mission; Spacecraft To Drift Into Deep Space After Loss of Contact
- NASA’s Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Studying the glowing patterns of Earth’s surface helps us understand human activity, respond to disasters, and witness a changing world.
- STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at the forefront of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) education, play a key role in the advanceme...
- NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends NASA · 4 Aug 2025 The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. D...
- NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission NASA · 4 Aug 2025 As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
- Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills NASA · 4 Aug 2025 New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled r...
- Perseids Meteor Shower NASA · 4 Aug 2025 In this 30 second exposure photograph, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. The Perseids meteor shower, whi...
- NASA’s Artemis Crew Trains in Moonbound Orion Ahead of Mission NASA · 4 Aug 2025 The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Cre...
- Mark Cavanaugh: Integrating Safety into the Orion Spacecraft NASA · 4 Aug 2025 Before astronauts venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo, Mark Cavanaugh is helping make sure the Orion spacecraft is safe and space-ready for the journey ahead....
- Training robots from space ESA · 4 Aug 2025 This summer, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, remotely guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This marked the fourth and final session of the Surface Avatar expe...
- Webb reveals structures in planetary nebula, sheds new light on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field NASASpaceflight · 3 Aug 2025 The joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the remnants…
- Live coverage: Starlink mission marks SpaceX’s 450th flight-proven Falcon booster launch Spaceflight Now · 3 Aug 2025 The Starlink 10-30 mission will add 28 more satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 UTC) o...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy August 3-9, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 3 Aug 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of August 3-9, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess