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- NASA Glenn Engineer Highlights Research for Hubble Servicing Missions NASA · 14 May 2025 April 24 marked the 35th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The iconic space observatory remains a household name —the most well-recognized and scientifically productive telescope in history. Eng...
- NASA Glenn Hosts Slovenian Delegation and Ohio Governor’s Office NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland hosted a delegation of Slovenian government officials and representatives from the Ohio Governor’s Office on April 11. NASA Glenn leadership provided the group with an overview o...
- Specialty NASA Glenn License Plates Available NASA · 14 May 2025 Ohio residents can now take their vehicle to new heights with a specialty license plate showcasing NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. It is available on the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) website under the “...
- NASA Glenn Shows Students Temperature-Cooling Technology NASA · 14 May 2025 Water is essential for life, and it is an important engineering tool as well. On March 21, NASA’s Glenn Research Center staff joined Great Lakes Science Center in celebrating World Water Day at the science center, home o...
- NASA Glenn Champions FIRST Robotics Competition Buckeye Regional NASA · 14 May 2025 NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland supported the 26th annual FIRST Robotics Competition Buckeye Regional, April 3-6, at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. This international engineering design challenge...
- Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane showers ESA · 14 May 2025 A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the northern hemisphere for the first time. Most o...
- Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers NASA · 14 May 2025 Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by eva...
- Satellite industry continues modest revenue growth trends SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 The satellite industry continued trends of modest growth in 2024 even as the number of satellites increases rapidly.
- Intuitive Machines’ CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing Spaceflight Now · 14 May 2025 Steve Altemus, Intuitive Machines’ CEO, said the company is applying the learnings to the IM-3 mission, which is set to launch in the first half of 2026.
- Space-based solar power startups are banking on Starship’s success SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 A new generation of space companies is thinking bigger. From kilometers-wide orbital data centers to solar power stations requiring even larger structures in space, some of the most ambitious space […]
- Varda Space reentry capsule lands in Australia, completes hypersonic research mission SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 W-3 focused on gathering data for military hypersonic research.
- Eutelsat plots digital upgrades for follow-on OneWeb satellites SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 Space computing specialist Ramon.Space announced a deal to supply digital communication channelizer systems for at least 70 upcoming OneWeb satellites, helping transition the constellation to a software-defined network t...
- European banks help OroraTech raise more funds for wildfire-monitoring constellation SpaceNews · 14 May 2025 OroraTech has secured an extra $13 million in Series B venture funding to accelerate the expansion of its wildfire-monitoring constellation, the German satellite operator announced May 14.
- IM-2’s Imperfect Landing Due to Altimeter Interference, South Pole Lighting Conditions SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 May 2025 Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander, IM-2, landed on its side near the Moon’s South Pole because of altimeter interference and lighting conditions according to the company’s president and CEO. During
- Sols 4539-4540: Back After a Productive Weekend Plan NASA · 14 May 2025 Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University Earth planning date: Monday, May 12, 2025 Curiosity was back to work Monday, picking up where it left off from Friday’s plan. Tosol’s plan started...
- Sols 4536-4538: Dusty Martian Magnets NASA · 14 May 2025 Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, May 9, 2025 I was on downlink today for SA-SPaH, our robotic arm team. We successfully completed a n...
- Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing Project 2025 Spring Review NASA · 13 May 2025 NASA and its partners in the Advanced Composites Consortium gathered at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on April 29-May 1, 2025. Team members from 22 organizations in the public-private partner...
- Senate confirms Troy Meink as Air Force secretary with bipartisan support SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Meink most recently served as deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office
- La NASA calibra una segunda sonda de detección de impactos para las pruebas del X-59 NASA · 13 May 2025 Read this story in English here. Cuando se prueba un avión de última generación de la NASA, se necesitan herramientas especializadas para realizar pruebas y capturar datos, pero si esas herramientas necesitan mantenimien...
- AST SpaceMobile ramping up launches ahead of beta service this year SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 AST SpaceMobile plans to launch satellites for its direct-to-smartphone broadband constellation every one to two months starting in July, aiming to begin beta services for AT&T and Verizon in the United States before the...
- Senate forms ‘Golden Dome Caucus’ to champion missile defense shield SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Trump administration’s initiative aimed at protecting homeland from evolving threats faces technological and financial hurdles
- NASA’s Artemis III Core Stage Receives Thermal Protection Coating NASA · 13 May 2025 NASA completed another step to ready its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis III mission as crews at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans recently applied a thermal protection system to the...
- If Congress actually cancels the SLS rocket, what happens next? Ars Technica · 13 May 2025 Here's what NASA's exploration plans would actually look like if the White House got its way.
- NASA Hosts Industry, Government, Academia to Explore Partnerships NASA · 13 May 2025 On April 29, more than 90 representatives from industry, U.S. federal labs, government agencies, and academia gathered at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley to learn about the center’s groundbreak...
- Take a Tour of the Cosmos with New Interactives from NASA’s Universe of Learning NASA · 13 May 2025 Ready for a tour of the cosmos? NASA’s Universe of Learning has released a new, dynamic way for lifelong learners to explore NASA’s breathtaking images of the universe—ViewSpace interactive Image Tours. ViewSpace has an...
- Lightning in Southeast Asia NASA · 13 May 2025 A flash of lightning shines brighter than the lights of nearby cities in this Oct. 29, 2024, image taken by astronaut Don Pettit while aboard the International Space Station. At the time of this photograph, little to no...
- What is a Black Hole? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 59 NASA · 13 May 2025 What is a black hole? Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren’t actually holes. They’re regions in space that have a gravitational pull that is so strong that nothing can escape, not even...
- NASA Enables Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration NASA · 13 May 2025 One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes building materials for infrastructure such as habitats, radiation shielding, roads, and rocket launch...
- Altimeter problems, lighting challenges caused IM-2 lunar lander to fall on its side SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Problems with laser altimeters along with lighting and terrain challenges caused Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to fall on its side when it landed on the moon in March.
- I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman. SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Set to launch in just two years, […]
- Space debris crisis: the national security threat we’re ignoring SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Today, Earth’s orbits carry over 100 million debris objects, which have already resulted in nearly 400 debris-generating events, according to NASA. In the last six months alone, space debris has crashed into Poland, near...
- Shaking Up Satcom: The Time is Now for Radical Innovation in Satellite Communications SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Although their tones and timbres vary, sirens and alarms are universal harbingers of emergency. Mounted in homes and offices; on police cars, ambulances, and fire engines; and in airports, schools, […]
- Redwire sees opportunities in the U.S. and Europe despite budget and geopolitical uncertainties SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 Redwire says it expects to find more business opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic despite geopolitical challenges that could hamper international cooperation.
- Tuesday Telescope: Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes Ars Technica · 13 May 2025 A large moon and an extremely large telescope.
- How Earth observation satellite operators are teaming up to tip and cue one another SpaceNews · 13 May 2025 When imagery from the Worldview Legion satellites revealed fabric over a large object near a dry dock in North Korea in September, satellite operator Maxar Intelligence knew they needed help. […]
- Aubrie Henspeter: Leading Commercial Lunar Missions NASA · 13 May 2025 As NASA partners with American industry to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon, a dedicated team behind the scenes ensures every mission is grounded in strategy, compliance, and innovation. Leading that e...
- Thank you for your service, Galileo GSAT0104 ESA · 13 May 2025 On 12 March 2013, Galileo satellite GSAT0104, alongside its fellow In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, made history by enabling the first position fix by Europe’s independent satellite navigation system Galileo. Now, a...
- Decommissioning Galileo satellites - Infographic ESA · 13 May 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Plato’s dialogue ESA · 13 May 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- A Second Trump National Space Council Would Be Busy SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 May 2025 The Trump Administration reportedly plans to keep the National Space Council as the White House mechanism for coordinating U.S. space policy. Created by Congress in 1989, some presidents have used