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- NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research NASA · 15 May 2025 NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber th...
- Deimos Before Dawn NASA · 15 May 2025 NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the dark before daw...
- Live – A Conversation with Rep. George Whitesides SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 Join us on June 10 for an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Representative George Whitesides (D-CA), a freshman congressman representing California’s 27th District. Whitesides brings years of experience to Capitol H...
- The cost of shrinking space science SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 In this week's episode of Space Minds Mamta Patel Nagaraja - NASA's former associate chief scientist-offers an insider's look at how science priorities are set, what gets cut and what the future holds for research aboard...
- NASA, French SWOT Satellite Offers Big View of Small Ocean Features NASA · 15 May 2025 The international mission collects two-dimensional views of smaller waves and currents that are bringing into focus the ocean’s role in supporting life on Earth. Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean featu...
- Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds NASA · 15 May 2025 Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically occur near the north and...
- Meet the Space Ops Team: Christine Braden NASA · 15 May 2025 Christine Braden values new experiences that broaden her perspective; a mindset that has guided her 26-year career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she currently serves as a senior systems engineer in the...
- Spacewalk Research and Technology NASA · 15 May 2025 Science in Space: May Crew members on the International Space Station periodically conduct spacewalks to perform a variety of tasks such as installing, upgrading, and repairing equipment. During a spacewalk on May 1, ast...
- Accelerating investment in the final frontier: leveraging administrative approvals to bolster commercial space development SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 In the American economy, property rights are so fundamental to commercial activities that we often take them for granted. Without these fundamental tenets of society, development and commerce would be […]
- Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60 NASA · 15 May 2025 Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen. Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventua...
- Solestial banks $17 million and welcomes new CEO SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 SAN FRANCISCO – Solar energy startup Solestial raised $17 million in Series A funding to expand manufacturing of silicon photovoltaics for space applications. The Tempe, Arizona startup also announced May […]
- How IM-2 payload operators made the most of the mission’s landing issues SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 Companies and organizations can spend years developing experiments and other payloads for a space mission. Those payloads are then subjected to risks beyond the control of their owners. A launch […]
- Aschbacher calls on Europe to increase space spending SpaceNews · 15 May 2025 The head of the European Space Agency called on Europe to increase overall spending on space as he prepares a new three-year budget for the agency.
- Apply now to ESA's Junior Professional Programme: your portal to space ESA · 15 May 2025 Are you passionate about space and looking to build a long-term career in the European space sector? Do you have two to three years of professional experience and a Master’s degree? The European Space Agency is offering...
- Biomass, an oversized football and the Australian outback ESA · 15 May 2025 ESA’s forest mission Biomass will be supported by a custom-built transponder antenna installed in New Norcia, Australia.
- Trump’s NASA Budget — Shifting From Star Trek to Dune? SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 May 2025 The space community is still trying to grasp the implications of the Trump Administration’s proposal to slice almost 25 percent out of NASA’s budget, adding money for Moon-to-Mars and cutting
- A Tough Drill at Witch Hazel Hill NASA · 15 May 2025 Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London After a busy few months exploring the outer slopes of the Jezero crater rim at an area named “Witch Hazel Hill,” the Perseverance Science Team was eyeing...
- Lawmakers raise alarm over rumored cuts to commercial satellite imagery funding SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 Rep. Seth Moulton: 'I am especially concerned about the rumor that the National Reconnaissance Office, at the direction of OMB, has slashed commercial imagery funding lines in the FY26 budget'
- China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 China launched 12 satellites early Wednesday for a pioneering on-orbit computing project led by startup ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab.
- Venus Aerospace flies its rotating detonation rocket engine for the first time Ars Technica · 14 May 2025 "Hypersonics is one of the critical technologies to remain ahead of our national competitors."
- Rocket Lab to launch NASA astrophysics smallsat mission SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch a small NASA astrophysics spacecraft that will study galaxies at ultraviolet wavelengths.
- Arabsat seeks Telesat Lightspeed capacity as Starlink expands into Saudi Arabia SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 Saudi Arabia's Arabsat signed a deal for broadband capacity from Telesat’s proposed low Earth orbit constellation, a day after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced approval to sell LEO services to maritime and aviation custome...
- Eclipses, Auroras, and the Spark of Becoming: NASA Inspires Future Scientists NASA · 14 May 2025 In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in a display of ethereal beauty, nine undergraduate students from across the United States were about to embar...
- NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Aspera’s Galaxy Mission NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selectio...
- Kepler demonstrates space-to-ground optical links for proposed relay network SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 Canada’s Kepler Communications said it has successfully demonstrated optical data links between a prototype satellite in low Earth orbit and a partner’s ground station for the first time.
- Axiom Mission 4 delayed due to Dragon capsule readiness Spaceflight Now · 14 May 2025 The capsule flying the Ax-4 mission was originally set to launch in support of the Crew-10 mission to the ISS, which launched in mid-March.
- Pretty in Pink NASA · 14 May 2025 The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Discovered b...
- Gilmour Space’s Eris rocket set for Australia’s first homegrown orbital launch NASASpaceflight · 14 May 2025 Gilmour Space Technologies is performing final system checks before launching its homegrown Eris rocket. The…
- NASA to Participate in Next Private Astronaut Mission Teleconference NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA will join a media teleconference hosted by Axiom Space at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Br...
- NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars NASA · 14 May 2025 On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the Sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amoun...
- NASA’s Magellan Mission Reveals Possible Tectonic Activity on Venus NASA · 14 May 2025 Using archival data from the mission, launched in 1989, researchers have uncovered new evidence that tectonic activity may be deforming the planet’s surface. Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus’ surface may reveal tha...
- Hubble Pinpoints Young Stars in Spiral Galaxy NASA · 14 May 2025 In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue rin...
- Nuclear battery startup Zeno Power raises $50 million to expand in space and at sea SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 The funding round was led by Hanaco Ventures and other space and defense-focused investors
- NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta NASA · 14 May 2025 Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface. Although the Moon and the asteroid Vesta are very dif...
- Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System NASA · 14 May 2025 Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system. Now there...
- Space Forge Secures £22.6M for In-Space Manufacturing Platform European Spaceflight · 14 May 2025 Welsh in-space manufacturing company Space Forge has raised £22.6 million in a Series A funding round led by the NATO Innovation Fund. Founded in 2018, Space Forge is developing the ForgeStar, a recoverable in-orbit plat...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 14 May 2025 The Starlink 6-67 mission will fly on a south-easterly trajectory once it departs from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff is targeting 12:38 p.m. EDT (1638 UTC) on May 14.
- Orion on the move ESA · 14 May 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space cuisine and the foundation of new space culture SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 A spacefaring people needs more than rockets and stations. No civilization has ever been built on technical capability alone. It needs people who choose to remain and pursue life beyond […]
- NASA Glenn Showcases Stirling Engine Technology at Piston Powered Auto-Rama NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA Glenn Research Center’s work in power and propulsion was on full display at the Piston Powered Auto-Rama at the I-X Center in Cleveland, March 28-30. The event is the largest indoor showcase of cars, trucks, motorcy...