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- Launch Roundup: Alpha ready for launch, Falcon 9 to launch cargo to ISS NASASpaceflight · 14 Apr 2025 This week will see the worldwide launch cadence slow, with only four launches scheduled. SpaceX’s…
- Should the US prioritize settling Mars? Ars Technica · 14 Apr 2025 Should we all just read A City on Mars and call the whole thing off?
- Derek Tournear to return as Space Development Agency director after investigation SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2025 Tournear will return to the Space Development Agency on April 17 after a three-month administrative leave
- Italy Moves Ahead With Study for 100-Satellite Constellation European Spaceflight · 14 Apr 2025 The Italian government has approved Phase 2 of a feasibility study exploring the possibility of the country developing an 100-satellite constellation. While few details have been announced, initial reports indicate that...
- Italy Moves Ahead With Study for National IRIS2 Alternative European Spaceflight · 14 Apr 2025 The Italian government has approved Phase 2 of a feasibility study exploring the possibility of the country developing an alternative to the IRIS2 secure communications constellation. In late 2024, the Interministerial C...
- NASA Announces 31st Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA has announced the winning student teams in the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. This year’s competition challenged teams to design, build, and test a lunar rover powered by either human pilots or remote contr...
- NASA Wallops Breaks Ground on New Causeway Bridge NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility commemorated the start of construction of its new Wallops Island causeway bridge during a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2025, on the island. The ceremony was held at...
- NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 32nd Station Resupply Launch, Arrival NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:15 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 21, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 32nd SpaceX commercial resuppl...
- NASA to Host Webinar with Small Business Administration Leadership NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs will host the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for the first time at its monthly webinar for small businesses at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 16. The webinar, currently ope...
- Exploring the Universe Through Sight, Touch, and Sound NASA · 14 Apr 2025 For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses—seeing, touching, and hearing astronomical data—in ways that deepen our understanding of space. While three-dimensional (3D) model...
- Sculpted by Luminous Stars NASA · 14 Apr 2025 This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this i...
- All-Woman NS-31 Crew Praise Teamwork, Sisterhood SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Apr 2025 Six women flew to space today on Blue Origin’s New Shepard-31 mission, spending about 4 minutes in weightlessness looking down at the Earth from above the Kármán Line. The celebrity-filled
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Prepares Second Asteroid Encounter NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. This upcoming event represent...
- Catch up on all of SpaceNews’ Space Symposium 2025 coverage SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2025 SpaceNews produced the official Show Daily for all three exhibit days of the 38th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, April 17-20, 2023.
- Multi-orbit success or a single-point of failure? SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2025 The march toward single broadband terminals that can tap into multiple orbits promises greater resiliency and flexibility. It also centralizes risk in one device. “Single point failures are not ideal,” […]
- Blue Origin launches all-woman New Shepard suborbital flight SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2025 Blue Shepard launched six women, including a pop star and TV show host, on a suborbital flight of the company’s New Shepard vehicle April 14.
- NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Return NASA · 14 Apr 2025 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, will depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and return to Earth on Saturday, April 19. Pettit,...
- Tree planting for Ignis ESA · 14 Apr 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Webb brings dying star's energetic display into full focus ESA · 14 Apr 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- With NASA’s Webb, Dying Star’s Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus NASA · 14 Apr 2025 Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Its rings, which are only detected in infrared light, now look li...
- No man’s airspace: Why our skies aren’t ready for the space boom SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2025 On a clear evening this January, flights out of Miami, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale suddenly ground to a halt. The culprit wasn’t weather or a software glitch — it was […]
- LUNA’s virtual leap towards the Moon ESA · 14 Apr 2025 Rough terrain, deep shadows and blinding light – training for lunar missions means facing an environment unlike anything on Earth. At the ESA-DLR LUNA analogue facility, virtual reality (VR) technology makes it possible...
- NASA extends seat barter agreement with Roscosmos into 2027 SpaceNews · 13 Apr 2025 NASA and Roscosmos have extended a seat barter agreement for flights to the International Space Station into 2027 that will feature longer Soyuz missions to the station.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy April 13-19, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Apr 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of April 13-19, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess
- SpaceX starts 2025 with Falcon records and Starship problems NASASpaceflight · 13 Apr 2025 SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also…
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 13 Apr 2025 The Starlink 6-73 mission features a Falcon booster, tail number 1067, which will launch for a record-setting 27th time. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC).
- ALTEC Receives €61M Contract to Support ESA Space Station Activities European Spaceflight · 12 Apr 2025 The European Space Agency has awarded Italy’s ALTEC a €61 million contract to provide training, logistics, and operations support services for the International Space Station over a five-year period. ALTEC has been respo...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starshield satellites for the NRO on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Spaceflight Now · 12 Apr 2025 The NROL-192 mission will the 10th to date supporting the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) proliferated architecture satellite constellation. Liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is targeting Satu...
- NOAA budget proposal would affect weather satellite, other space programs SpaceNews · 12 Apr 2025 The White House’s budget proposal for NOAA would seek to make major changes in a weather satellite program as well as transfer other space programs.
- Sols 4507-4508: “Just Keep Driving” NASA · 11 Apr 2025 Written by Natalie Moore, Mission Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 Our drive from Monday’s plan was mostly successful, putting us ~22 meters down the “roa...
- Isaacman’s “Golden Age of Science & Discovery” on Shaky Ground SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Apr 2025 Just two days ago, NASA Administrator-nominee Jared Isaacman spoke glowingly about Trump Administration plans for a “Golden Age of Science & Discovery” at the agency. Yesterday, however, the Office of
- RFA and SaxaVord target UK’s first vertical orbital launch NASASpaceflight · 11 Apr 2025 Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is determined to debut its RFA One rocket by the end…
- White House proposal would slash NASA science budget and cancel major missions SpaceNews · 11 Apr 2025 The White House is proposing steep cuts in NASA’s science program that, if implemented, would cancel several major missions, contradicting claims by the administration’s nominee to lead the agency.
- NASA-Developed Tools at Marshall Support Operations to Station NASA · 11 Apr 2025 Two new automation tools developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are geared toward improving operations for flight controllers working with the International Space Station from the Huntsv...
- Space industry confronts twin disruptors: AI and geopolitics SpaceNews · 11 Apr 2025 Space businesses are under pressure to adapt as artificial intelligence and shifting geopolitics reshape their industry in ways that are still coming into focus.
- GLOBE Mission Earth Supports Career Technical Education NASA · 11 Apr 2025 The NASA Science Activation program’s GLOBE Mission EARTH (GME) project is forging powerful connections between career technical education (CTE) programs and real-world science, inspiring students across the United State...
- Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago NASA · 11 Apr 2025 NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970. The mission seemed to be going smoothly until 55 hours and 55...
- Kudos Test Article NASA · 11 Apr 2025 The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is calling on volunteers of all ages to help students and citizen scientists document seasonal change through leaf color and land cover. The...
- NASA’s IMAP Arrives at NASA Marshall For Testing in XRCF NASA · 11 Apr 2025 On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, which simulate...
- Winning the satellite industry’s most disruptive decade yet SpaceNews · 11 Apr 2025 The satellite industry has seen major mission, market and technology leaps over the decades, but nothing like the top-to-bottom disruption we are going through now. Driven in large part by […]