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- Data and artificial intelligence: the fuel behind space discovery SpaceNews · 26 Mar 2025 As maintaining leadership in space is a primary goal, particularly across the United States Space Force, NASA and other federal agencies, the U.S. remains focused on space exploration as a […]
- Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit Ars Technica · 26 Mar 2025 Taking tactically responsive space to the next level. Literally.
- Intuitive Machines emphasizes diversification beyond lunar landers SpaceNews · 26 Mar 2025 After two hard landings on the moon, Intuitive Machines is outlining a more diversified future for the company, with a greater emphasis on data services.
- White House nominates Autry to be NASA’s chief financial officer SpaceNews · 26 Mar 2025 The person nominated but not confirmed to be NASA’s CFO in the first Trump administration is getting another shot in the second administration.
- NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time NASA · 26 Mar 2025 Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often ori...
- Braun: Launch, Risk Tolerance Key Factors in Space Science Mission Costs SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Mar 2025 As NASA’s space science program faces an uncertain funding future, the director of one of the country’s top space science laboratories cites lower launch costs, higher risk tolerance for robotic
- NASA Statement on Nomination of Greg Autry for Agency CFO NASA · 25 Mar 2025 The following is a statement from NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Greg Autry on March 24 to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer (CFO): “The NASA CFO i...
- Live Event: Space Sustainability and Orbital Traffic Management – A Conversation with Aarti Holla-Maini SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 Join us on Apr. 3 for an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Aarti Holla-Maini, director of the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs.
- NASA Cloud Software Helps Companies Find their Place in Space NASA · 25 Mar 2025 Planning space missions is a very involved process, ensuring orbits are lined up and spacecraft have enough fuel is imperative to the long-term survival of orbital assets. Continuum Space Systems Inc. of Pasadena, Califo...
- NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over NASA · 25 Mar 2025 Technicians do final checks on NASA’s Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover – and its twin, Opportunity – studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been...
- NASA Invites Media to Learn About Artemis Moon Mission Recovery NASA · 25 Mar 2025 NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the M...
- California commits $95 million to purchase of satellite methane data SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 Under the $95 million contract, Carbon Mapper will process and disseminate data gathered by Planet Tanager hyperspectral-imaging satellites.
- Spain backs Sateliot with $15 million to expand connectivity constellation SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 Spain is investing about $15 million in Sateliot to help the Spanish startup scale its constellation to at least 100 nanosatellites, the LEO operator announced March 25.
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy NASA · 25 Mar 2025 The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar P...
- Momentum seems to be building for Jared Isaacman to become NASA administrator Ars Technica · 25 Mar 2025 "We believe that Jared Isaacman is uniquely qualified to lead NASA."
- NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System NASA · 25 Mar 2025 NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From Marc...
- NASA Demonstrates New Wildland Fire Airspace Management System NASA · 25 Mar 2025 NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions. From M...
- New Aircraft Wing Undergoes Crucial NASA Icing Testing NASA · 25 Mar 2025 In the future, aircraft with long, thin wings supported by aerodynamic braces could help airlines save on fuel costs. But those same wings could be susceptible to ice buildup. NASA researchers are currently working to de...
- NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views Blue Ghost on Moon’s Surface NASA · 25 Mar 2025 NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the Moon’s surface the afternoon of March 2, not quite 10 hours after the spacecraft landed. The delivery is part...
- NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views IM-2 on Moon’s Surface NASA · 25 Mar 2025 NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 on the Moon’s surface on March 7, just under 24 hours after the spacecraft landed. Later that day Intuitive Machines called an early end of missio...
- Companies in the Space Force commercial reserve program will not be publicly identified SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 The CASR initiative is designed to establish a reserve fleet of commercial satellites to augment government-owned systems in times of crisis.
- SpaceX’s Starlink dish with Gigabit Speeds leaves EU scrambling to catch up Teslarati · 25 Mar 2025 SpaceX is preparing to launch a gigabit Starlink dish. Meanwhile, Europe is still searching for a Starlink alternative.
- Space Force gets $40 million boost for commercial space services SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 The funding represents a vote of confidence in the U.S. Space Force's efforts to tap the commercial space market, said Col. Richard Kniseley
- Maxar launches GPS-alternative navigation system for drones SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 The software provides a terrain-based positioning system for drones in GPS-denied environments
- Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars ESA · 25 Mar 2025 As ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features to track them over time, in a full-scale test of the self-driving te...
- NASA terminating $420 million in contracts SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what is being cut.
- ACES: time to get ready ESA · 25 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- ESA Issues Call for European Launcher Challenge Proposals European Spaceflight · 25 Mar 2025 The European Space Agency has officially published a call for proposals for its European Launcher Challenge (ELC). Initiated in November 2023, the programme aims to support the development of new sovereign European launc...
- Hypersonics expert urges increased U.S. investment SpaceNews · 25 Mar 2025 The Pentagon anticipates that China and Russia may target U.S. and allied forces with hypersonic glide vehicles.
- NRO expands spy satellite network with back-to-back SpaceX launches SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 The NROL-69 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Sols 4488-4490: Progress Through the Ankle-Breaking Terrain (West of Texoli Butte, Climbing Southward) NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, March 21, 2025 It’s the start of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere on Earth, but in Gale Crater on Mars our...
- Launch Roundup: Alpha, Spectrum, Electron, and Falcon 9 set to fly NASASpaceflight · 24 Mar 2025 The week ahead includes four launches scheduled for Wednesday and the third Electron rocket to…
- Engineering Reality: Lee Bingham Leads Lunar Surface Simulation Support for Artemis Campaign NASA · 24 Mar 2025 If you design a new tool for use on Earth, it is easy to test and practice using that tool in its intended environment. But what if that tool is destined for lunar orbit or will be used by astronauts on the surface of th...
- ESA issues call for proposals for European Launcher Challenge SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 ESA has officially kicked off a competition to support new launch vehicles, but the winners, if any, won’t be known for at least eight months.
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...
- Like Sands Through the Hourglass… NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Teles...
- Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Services NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Overview Welcome to the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) services page. Provided here are different resources to support informed steps toward a new career opportunity in the public or private sector. Transition...
- NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Monday, April 21, to launc...
- Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons? Ars Technica · 24 Mar 2025 Most of the time, not a big deal. But in critical times, the losses will be felt.
- NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers NASA · 24 Mar 2025 For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms to understand our ever-changing planet. NASA research is revealing there’s more to flowers than meets the human ey...