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- NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhe...
- NASA Glenn Experts Join Baseball Fans in Omaha NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for...
- NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This...
- Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity ESA · 16 Jul 2025 Meet Olympus, a four-legged robot developed and built by Jørgen Anker Olsen, visiting PhD researcher from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
- How space research is advancing health on Earth and beyond ESA · 16 Jul 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Earth views from Cupola during Ignis mission ESA · 16 Jul 2025 View of Earth as seen by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world".
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, July 14, 2025 The Curiosity rover continues to navigate through the region of Mount Sharp...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces NASA · 16 Jul 2025 Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Friday, July 11, 2025 Imagine this vista as the view out your office window to start your workday. Your natural tendency wo...
- Starlink Cleared to Operate in India The Launch Pad · 15 Jul 2025 Starlink Cleared to Operate in India
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 15 Jul 2025 This is the first of three planned Falcon 9 missions Amazon booked for its internet relay satellites. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:18 a.m. EDT (0618 UTC) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 15 Jul 2025 The Starlink 15-2 mission will be the 30th orbital launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2025. SpaceX is targeting liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 4 East at 7:05 p.m. PDT (10:05 p.m. EDT, 0205 UTC).
- NASA Selects Companies for Architect-Engineer Services Contract NASA · 15 Jul 2025 NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/ind...
- NASA SCoPE Summer Symposium Celebrates Early Career Scientists and Cross-Team Collaboration NASA · 15 Jul 2025 From June 16–18, 2025, the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE) Summer Symposium brought together a community of scientists, educators, and outreach professionals to celebrate and...
- Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine NASA · 15 Jul 2025 A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of t...
- Gilmour Space prepares again to launch Australia’s first homegrown orbital launch with Eris rocket NASASpaceflight · 15 Jul 2025 Gilmour Space is preparing once more to launch its homegrown Eris rocket no earlier than…
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research NASA · 15 Jul 2025 A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Ja...
- Axiom-4 Back on Earth After 20 Days in Space SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 Jul 2025 The international Axiom-4 private astronaut crew splashed down off the coast of California early this morning. After an almost two-week launch delay, Axiom Commander Peggy Whitson and astronauts from India,
- NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar NASA · 15 Jul 2025 An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Po...
- Helio Highlights: June 2025 NASA · 15 Jul 2025 Two Stars in Solar Science It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be tested in conditions similar to spac...
- Φsat-2 begins science phase for AI Earth images ESA · 15 Jul 2025 Φsat-2, a miniature satellite, has completed its commissioning and has begun delivery of science data, using algorithms to efficiently process and compress Earth observation images, as well as detect wildfires, ships, ma...
- Smile passes gruelling set of tests ESA · 15 Jul 2025 All its parts have been built and put together. It has been wrapped in shiny gold insulating foil. Its launch is getting closer. But the Smile spacecraft had one major phase to pass before it could be certified ready for...
- Testing, testing, testing – Let’s Smile (episode 3) ESA · 15 Jul 2025 Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms.
- One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions NASA · 15 Jul 2025 Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find eviden...
- Fourth NASA-Enabled Private Flight to Space Station Completes Safely NASA · 15 Jul 2025 The NASA-supported fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4, completed its flight as part of the agency’s efforts to demonstrate demand and build operational knowledge for futu...
- Melissa Harris: Shaping NASA’s Vision for a Future in Low Earth Orbit NASA · 15 Jul 2025 With over 25 years of experience in human spaceflight programs, Melissa Harris has contributed to numerous programs and projects during key moments in NASA’s history. As the life cycle lead and Independent Review Team re...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4595-4596: Just Another Beautiful Day on Mars NASA · 15 Jul 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 In today’s plan, we have a little bit of everything. With it being winter still, we...
- Ignis mission highlights ESA · 15 Jul 2025 After 20 days in space, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and his Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crewmates returned safely to Earth today, 15 July 2025.
- House Appropriators Also Reject Trump-Proposed NASA Cuts, Fund National Space Council SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Jul 2025 The House Appropriations Committee released the draft text of their version of the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science bill that funds NASA today. Like their Senate counterpart, the House committee would essentially keep
- NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan NASA · 14 Jul 2025 NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However,...
- NASA, SpaceX target July 31 for Crew-11 launch to the ISS Spaceflight Now · 14 Jul 2025 The four-person crew will launch onboard Dragon Endeavour from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It will be the first time a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has flown for a sixth time.
- Launch Roundup: Chinese cargo resupply mission, Eris, and Falcon 9 to launch NASASpaceflight · 14 Jul 2025 This week features several missions scheduled to launch from sites all around the world. China…
- Protected: Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER) NASA · 14 Jul 2025 There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
- Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science NASA · 14 Jul 2025 Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more. Monitoring...
- 10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart NASA · 14 Jul 2025 This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color M...
- Space Rider Nose Cone Passes Key Milestone European Spaceflight · 14 Jul 2025 The Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA) has completed the structural dynamic qualification testing campaign of the Space Rider nose cone, marking a key milestone in the development of the vehicle’s Thermal Protectio...
- Chief Training Officer Teresa Sindelar Touches the Future of Human Spaceflight NASA · 14 Jul 2025 Teresa Sindelar always knew she wanted to be a part of human spaceflight, but she was unsure how to make that dream a reality until a chance encounter with former NASA astronaut Tom Stafford when she was 11 years old. Th...
- You can’t judge a star by its protoplanetary disc ESA · 14 Jul 2025 This image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplaneta...
- Senate Armed Services Orders Study on Super Heavy Rockets, Methane Blast Risks & Golden Dome in New Defense Bill The Launch Pad · 13 Jul 2025 Senate Armed Services Orders Study on Super Heavy Rockets, Methane Blast Risks & Golden Dome in New Defense Bill
- Next Boeing Starliner To Fly Without Crew as NASA Looks to Extend SpaceX Missions To 8 Month Rotation The Launch Pad · 13 Jul 2025 Next Boeing Starliner To Fly Without Crew as NASA Looks to Extend SpaceX Missions To 8 Month Rotation
- NASA and DARPA Kill DRACO Nuclear Rocket, Shift Focus to Electric Propulsion Future The Launch Pad · 13 Jul 2025 NASA and DARPA Kill DRACO Nuclear Rocket, Shift Focus to Electric Propulsion Future