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- Sols 4543-4545: Leaving the Ridge for the Ridges NASA · 20 May 2025 Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Friday, May 16, 2025 As Curiosity progresses up Mount Sharp, it crosses different terrains, which the team has mapped from orb...
- ESA Awards Contract for Probe That Will Land on Earth-Skimming Asteroid European Spaceflight · 20 May 2025 ESA has awarded a contract for the second CubeSat for its Ramses mission, which will study asteroid Apophis as it passes within 32,000 kilometres of Earth. The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses) mission was...
- MDA Space raises SatixFy offer by 43% to counter competing bid SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 Canada’s MDA Space has increased its offer for SatixFy by 43% following a competing bid for the Israeli satellite chipmaker, bringing the total value of the deal to around US$280 million.
- Satellite firms brace for potential imagery budget cuts in 2026 SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 Industry officials: Cuts of this magnitude would be a stunning reversal of policy
- China launches classified comms satellite, conducts commercial sea launch SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 China has continued an uptick in launch activity with a Long March 7A mission to geosynchronous orbit and sea launch of a Ceres-1 solid rocket.
- Sunset on Mars NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we we...
- NASA Sets Coverage for 32nd SpaceX Resupply Mission Departure NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA and its international partners will soon receive scientific research samples and hardware after a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, May 22, for its return to Earth. Live c...
- Jason Rainbow Appointed Business Intelligence Manager at SpaceNews SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 Washington, D.C. – SpaceNews is pleased to announce the expanded role of longtime commercial space reporter Jason Rainbow, who will now serve as Senior Staff Writer and Business Intelligence Manager. […]
- Disrupting the intelligence machine: A conversation with Robert Cardillo SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Robert Cardillo, president of the Cardillo Group.
- Kuva to offer maritime-domain insights with satellite on deck SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 ST. LOUIS – Hyperspectral imagery startup Kuva Space will expand its focus on maritime-domain awareness with its second satellite scheduled to launch in June. Kuva has delivered Hyperfield-1B, a 60-kilogram […]
- NASA to Welcome Expedition 72 Astronauts Home at Space Center Houston NASA · 20 May 2025 Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wil...
- Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space NASA · 20 May 2025 NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Crop production in microgravity will be important to provide whole food nutrition,...
- Geospatial intelligence agency urges faster AI deployment SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 'While we've made some significant progress in the last 12 plus months, there's more work to be done'
- What Is the International Space Station? (Grades 5-8) NASA · 20 May 2025 This article is for students grades 5-8. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique...
- Galileo Second Generation developing at full speed ESA · 20 May 2025 The building of twelve Galileo Second Generation satellites is progressing rapidly, with several key milestones achieved in recent months. Among the most significant are the successful compatibility tests with ground inf...
- Starfish Space ready to launch docking demonstration mission SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 Satellite servicing company Starfish Space is ready to launch its second mission, a spacecraft that will attempt to dock with another spacecraft on the same launch.
- Starfish Space announces plans for first commercial satellite docking NASASpaceflight · 20 May 2025 A new mission will aim to complete the first commercial satellite docking in low Earth…
- Wyvern publicly releases 25 hyperspectral images SpaceNews · 20 May 2025 ST. LOUIS — Canadian hyperspectral startup Wyvern is publicly releasing 25 additional images including scenes of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Airfield and an Iranian port explosion. Wyvern launched its Open Data Program […]
- Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far NASA · 20 May 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion l...
- Tuesday Telescope: Finally, some answers on those Martian streaks Ars Technica · 20 May 2025 Alas, these probably are not reservoirs of life.
- Andrea Harrington’s Vision Paves the Way for Lunar Missions NASA · 20 May 2025 When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington. As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the futur...
- Second CubeSat joins ESA’s Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis ESA · 20 May 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 19 May 2025 The Starlink 12-15 mission is SpaceX’s 60th Falcon 9 launch of 2025. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeting 11:58 p.m. EDT (0358 UTC).
- SI Imaging Services to offer leasing of high-resolution imaging satellite SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 ST. LOUIS – In addition to offering tasking of its latest satellite, South Korea’s SI Imaging Services will invite customers to lease capacity. “Think of it as Airbnb for remote-sensing […]
- Launch Roundup: SpaceX to start new Starlink shell; China, Russia to launch unknown payloads NASASpaceflight · 19 May 2025 This week, SpaceX will begin building a new shell for its Starlink constellation, launching from…
- Gabbard signals shift in U.S. intelligence collection priorities SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 DNI Tulsi Gabbard announces "biggest shift in collection priorities in ODNI history" with focus on border security
- Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure? NASA · 19 May 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that...
- NATO allies to pledge capabilities to address growing threats SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 ST. LOUIS – At the June NATO summit in the Netherlands, allies will outline specific capabilities to contribute to the alliance. “It won’t just be a pledge,” UK Royal Marines […]
- Department of the Air Force issues draft documents for new SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base Spaceflight Now · 19 May 2025 The proposal would allow SpaceX to take over Space Launch Complex 6, United Launch Alliance’s former Delta 4 launch site, and convert it for use to launch both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’ NASA · 19 May 2025 Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team i...
- GEOINT 2025: Navigating intelligence in a shifting world SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Ronda Schrenk, CEO of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.
- SatVu’s thermal imaging satellite winning over customers despite early setback SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 SatVu's HotSat satellites use thermal cameras to detect infrared radiation emitted by objects on Earth.
- Scientists urge NASA to act on Apophis mission concept SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ahead of an Earth flyby.
- Webb Finds Icy Disk NASA · 19 May 2025 This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in syste...
- Japan’s iQPS lines up eight SAR launches SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 ST. LOUIS — Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, iQPS, plans to launch eight additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites through the end of 2026. Rocket Lab, the U.S. launch […]
- Galileo Second Generation ESA · 19 May 2025 Europe’s Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy to billions of users. ESA and European industry are preparing a new generation of satellites for the European Union...
- CNES Awards Contract to French Spaceplane Startup European Spaceflight · 19 May 2025 French spaceplane startup AndroMach announced on 15 May that it had received a CNES contract to begin testing an early prototype of its Banger v1 rocket engine. Founded in 2023, AndroMach is developing a pair of spacepla...
- Seraphim picks 10 startups for 15th space accelerator SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 Seraphim Space announced the startups joining the 15th round of its networking and mentoring accelerator program May 19, reflecting the rising convergence of commercial innovation and national defense priorities.
- A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing NASA · 19 May 2025 The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of...
- Commercial radar satellite firm eyes role in U.S. missile defense SpaceNews · 19 May 2025 Iceye’s Eric Jensen: ‘Commercial SAR could be transformative for missile defense’