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China adds to classified TJS, Yaogan satellite series with two launches SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 China has added new spacecraft to two separate classified satellite series with a pair of launches across Sunday and Monday.
Launch Roundup: Orbital launches from five countries planned NASASpaceflight · 12 May 2025 On the heels of a busy April, activity is ramping up for May with launches…
Las carreras en la NASA despegan con las pasantías NASA · 12 May 2025 Read this story in English here. ¿Sueñas con trabajar para la NASA y contribuir a la exploración y la innovación en beneficio de la humanidad? Los programas de pasantías de la agencia ofrecen a los estudiantes de secunda...
NASA Careers Take Off with Internships NASA · 12 May 2025 Lee esta historia en español aquí. Do you dream of working for NASA and contributing to exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity? The agency’s internship programs provide high school and college students op...
Space Force selects vendors to build cloud-based ground station marketplaces SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 Auria Space and Sphinx Defense will develop competing versions of what the Space Force calls a “joint antenna marketplace"
Jupiter’s Turbulent Atmosphere NASA · 12 May 2025 JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes during the spacecraft’s 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025. Jupiter’s belts and zones...
Foreign SpaceX launch customers seek relief from U.S. tariffs SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 German launch services provider Exolaunch is working with non-U.S. customers to reclaim most of the tariffs they must pay to deploy their satellites via SpaceX.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 12 May 2025 The Falcon 9 rocket will fly in a south-easterly trajectory once its lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX is targeting a launch at 6:15 p.m. PDT (9:15 p.m. EDT, 0115 UTC).
NASA Goes Live on Twitch: Design Artemis II Moon Mascot NASA · 12 May 2025 NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. Viewers will...
NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Mars in Infrared NASA · 12 May 2025 Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument. On its recent swing by Mars, NASA’s Europa Clipper took the opportunity to captur...
Pentagon taps more firms to build commercial-military satellite network SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 The Defense Innovation Unit added more than a dozen new companies to its Hybrid Space Architecture project.
Lockheed Martin increases investment in solid rocket startup X-Bow Systems SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 The defense giant eyes new SRM supplier as demand surges for hypersonic and missile systems
NASA Ames Stars of the Month: May 2025 NASA · 12 May 2025 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Dennis Leveson-Gower and Laura Iraci. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, tec...
Countering China’s space stalkers: helping turn Competitive Endurance from theory into practice SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 On April 17, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations of the Space Force, released his third major statement on Competitive Endurance — a strategic framework designed to guide […]
5 Tips to Craft a Standout NASA Internship Application NASA · 12 May 2025 A NASA internship provides a stellar opportunity to launch your future as part of America’s aerospace workforce. NASA interns take on meaningful work and contribute to exciting agency projects with the guidance of a supp...
Accelerating the path for commercial space integration (and implementation) remains a DoD and national security priority SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 Last year’s release of both the Department of Defense (DoD) “Commercial Space Integration Strategy” and the United States Space Force (USSF) “Commercial Space Strategy,” marked, for the first time, the […]
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora NASA · 12 May 2025 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s...
Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora ESA · 12 May 2025 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. Wi...
MDA Space sees options for robotic arm technology should Gateway be canceled SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 The prime contractor for Canadarm3 believes that technology could be repurposed for other uses should the Gateway be canceled.
How smaller satellites are reshaping the geostationary orbit market SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 For decades, geostationary orbit (GEO) was the undisputed home of satellite communications. From television broadcasts to internet backhaul and voice services, GEO satellites formed the backbone of global connectivity, d...
Back to light ESA · 12 May 2025 As the night closed in on Spain and Portugal on 28 April, polar satellites followed the blackout that lasted well into the early hours of the morning in several regions.
Save the date: 16–22 June - ESA at the Paris Air Show ESA · 12 May 2025 The European Space Agency will be present at the 55th edition of International Paris Air Show, taking place on 16-22 June at Le Bourget airport.
Poland Launches Demonstration of Suborbital Research Rocket European Spaceflight · 12 May 2025 Poland has successfully launched a single-stage rocket demonstrator at the Central Air Force Training Ground in Ustka. The flight was part of a project to develop a three-stage solid-fuel rocket for research payloads. In...
Rocket Lab sees Mynaric deal as key for its constellation plans SpaceNews · 12 May 2025 Rocket Lab says its planned acquisition of a German optical communications supplier is key to its plans for both bidding on large constellations and eventually developing its own.
What’s Happening in Space Policy May 11-17, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 May 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of May 11-17, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
Live coverage: 28 Starlink satellites to launch on Falcon 9 booster making record breaking 28th flight Spaceflight Now · 11 May 2025 The Starlink 6-83 mission will also mark SpaceX’s 100th Falcon 9 launch from Launch Complex 39A. Liftoff is targeted for 12:06 a.m. EDT (0406 UTC).
Trump administration to keep National Space Council SpaceNews · 10 May 2025 In a reversal, White House plans to retain the National Space Council, a move that industry officials say could serve as an advocate for space amid pressures to cut budgets.
Rocket Lab to debut point-to-point cargo transportation capability on 2026 Air Force mission Spaceflight Now · 10 May 2025 Rocket Lab is working towards the debut of its medium-lift reusable Neutron rocket in the second half of 2025. The company didn’t announce whether the rocket used on this mission would carry a payload onboard.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 10 May 2025 The Starlink 6-91 mission includes the 900th Starlink V2 Mini satellite launched in 2025. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeted for Saturday, May 10 at 2:28 am EDT (0628 UTC).
25 Years of NASA Student Launch NASA · 9 May 2025 Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025. More than 980 mid...
Butch and Suni weren’t the only ones: the stories of astronauts “stranded” in space NASASpaceflight · 9 May 2025 After a planned eight day mission to the ISS that launched in June 2024, Butch…
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years NASA · 9 May 2025 One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in...
Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West) NASA · 9 May 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 The drive from the Monday plan brought Curiosity up next to a geomorphic contact visible in the o...
Engine change delays ispace-built lunar lander mission SpaceNews · 9 May 2025 A change in engines will cause the launch of a lunar lander being built for a NASA-funded mission to slip from 2026 to 2027.
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York NASA · 9 May 2025 NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will answer prerecorded questions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from students in Bethpage, New York. The two astronauts are currently aboard the In...
NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants NASA · 9 May 2025 Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025. The science, technology, engineering, and math...
Meet Four NASA Inventors Improving Life on Earth and Beyond NASA · 9 May 2025 When most people think of NASA, they picture rockets, astronauts, and the Moon. But behind the scenes, a group of inventors is quietly rewriting the rules of what’s possible — on Earth, in orbit, and beyond. Their ground...
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Spaceflight Now · 9 May 2025 The mission is launching after a six-day delay. Liftoff of the Starlink 15-3 mission from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is targeting 5:03 p.m. PDT (8:03 p.m. EDT, 0003 UTC).
NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise NASA · 9 May 2025 New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.
Trump assaults American space science SpaceNews · 9 May 2025 Massive cuts are focused on the most productive part of NASA

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