Firefly announces commercial lunar imagery service
SpaceNews · 18 Jun 2025
Firefly Aerospace says it plans to offer a commercial lunar imaging service for use by governments and companies, one that could supplement or replace an existing, but aging, NASA orbiter.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4573-4574: Welcome to the Uyuni Quad
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Monday, June 16, 2025 Over the weekend Curiosity successfully wrapped up activities at the “Altadena” drill site and g...
Regulators clear Starlink-enabled texting trial in war-torn Ukraine
SpaceNews · 18 Jun 2025
Regulators have approved Ukrainian telco Kyivstar’s plans to start testing space-enabled texting services this summer using SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, targeting areas crippled by Russian strikes and other terrestri...
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York, Utah
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Students from New York and Utah will hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they answer prerecorded questions in two separate events. At 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 23, NASA astronauts Nic...
NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Two students guide their rover through an obstacle course in this April 11, 2025, image from the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing student challen...
Digital Information Platform Library
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Library Scientific papers, industry forum presentations, and videos covering the concepts used in the digital information platform are available to the public. For those interested in a deeper understanding of the techni...
DIP Events
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM ESTDigital Information Platform Virtual Workshop: A Virtual Workshop on Service Quality, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability June 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDTDIP Information Ses...
DIP Request for Information (RFI) Information Session
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartApril 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM EDT EndApril 14, 2021 at 1:00 PM EDT NASA’s Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has recently released the Request...
DIP RFI Outbrief Session
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartAugust 18, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST EndAugust 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST DIP RFI Outbrief Session NASA’s Digital Information Platform (DIP) sub-project as part of Air Traffic Management -eXploration (ATM-X) project has re...
DIP Workshop Series 1: DIP Architecture and Date Integration Services
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartNovember 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST EndNovember 17, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series is intended to provide a deeper dive and a closer look a...
DIP Workshop Series 2: DIP for Service Providers
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartJanuary 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM EST EndJanuary 12, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series intends to provide a deeper dive and a closer look at some...
NASA to Gather In-Flight Imagery of Commercial Test Capsule Re-Entry
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company’s upcoming mission to return a subscale demonstration capsule...
DIP Workshop Series 3: DIP for Consumers
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartFebruary 23, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT EndFebruary 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST Workshop Series: What It’s About The Digital Information Platform (DIP) workshop series intends to provide a deeper dive and a closer look at so...
DIP Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity for Flight Operators
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
StartJuly 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT EndJune 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST What It’s About? DIP is hosting an online session to provide detailed information on the CDDR service, scope of the collaborative opportunity, partner r...
Digital Information Platform Technical Papers
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
2024 Towards Sustainable Aviation with Efficient Airspace OperationsPublished: September 9, 2024Authors: Jeremy Coupe, NASA Ames Research Center; Swati Saxena, NASA Ames Research CenterAbstract: In November 2021, the Fed...
DIP Spotlights #1
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
SFNP-OPS DEMO 1 DIP Hosts United Airlines Visit in NASA/FAA North Texas Research Station (NTX), Fort Worth September 8, 2023 The DIP Team hosted United Airlines at NASA’s NTX facility to demonstrate the Collaborative Dig...
DIP Spotlights Issue #2
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
SFNP-OPS DEMO 1 DIP Hosts Workshop with Collins Aerospace at NASA/FAA North Texas Research Station (NTX), Fort Worth November 29-30, 2023 The DIP team hosted Collins Aerospace at NASA’s NTX facility to discuss potential...
DIP Spotlights #3
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
SFNP-OPS DEMO 1 DIP Hosts Visit with Wisk Aero and SkyGrid at NASA/FAA North Texas Research Station (NTX), Fort Worth April 3, 2024 On April 3rd, the Digital Information Platform (DIP) team hosted representatives from Wi...
DIP Spotlights #4
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
CURRENT DIP ACTIVITIES DIP Team Presented to the New NATCA Rep and Houston District Manager in Houston Texas May 14, 2024 The Digital Information Platform (DIP) team conducted a demonstration of the Sustainable Flight Na...
DIP Spotlights #5
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
DIP ACTIVITIES Operational Requirements Finalized for the SFNP-Ops Evaluation in Houston, Texas August 21, 2024 In a major milestone, the DIP Team and field demo partners agreed to a plan of required capability, use case...
DIP Spotlights Issue #6
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
CURRENT DIP ACTIVITIES NASA Deputy Administrator Visits North Texas December 3, 2024 The Air Traffic Management eXploration (ATM-X) Project hosted NASA’s Deputy Administrator, Pam Melroy and others, to North Texas on Dec...
Digital Information Platform Services
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Services Overview NASA-developed services are available to optimize airspace operations using real-time data and advanced analytics. These services provide flight, airspace, and weather insights, helping users make infor...
Digital Information Platform Collaboration
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Collaboration Overview The team’s vision is to accelerate the transformation of the national airspace system and operations through the development of data-driven digital services for both conventional and emergent opera...
Digital Information Platform Overview
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
Challenges Current day air traffic management systems are segmented by domain, operator groups, and solution provider groups, which creates a challenge for those seeking a system wide solution. Future airspace operations...
NASA Tech to Measure Heat, Strain in Hypersonic Flight
NASA · 18 Jun 2025
A NASA system designed to measure temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles is set to make its first flights at hypersonic speeds – greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound – when mounted to two research...
Arianespace and Avio Call for Enforced European Launcher Preference
European Spaceflight · 18 Jun 2025
In a joint statement published on 16 June, Arianespace and Avio have called for European missions to be launched aboard European rockets. The statement was presented on the first day of the Paris Air Show, being held in...
ESA at Le Bourget 2025 – Day Three Highlights
ESA · 18 Jun 2025
The European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius attended the third day of the International Paris Air Show.
ESA - European Commission Press Conference at Paris Air Show 2025
ESA · 18 Jun 2025
Watch the replay of the ESA-European Commission press conference with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, held at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) o...
Call with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski at Paris Air Show 2025
ESA · 18 Jun 2025
Watch the replay of the call between Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA project astronaut. This call took place at the Pa...
Venturi Space announces European lunar rover design
SpaceNews · 18 Jun 2025
Venturi Space, a company working with Astrolab on lunar rover concepts, unveiled an all-European rover design it hopes to offer to European space agencies.
July decision expected on combination of European space companies
SpaceNews · 17 Jun 2025
Three European aerospace companies expect to decide by next month whether to combine their space divisions, something that could still take years to win regulatory approvals.
Career Exploration: Using Ingenuity and Innovation to Create ‘Memory Metals’
NASA · 17 Jun 2025
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Clev...