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- Live coverage: SpaceX Set to Launch Classified NROL-69 Mission from Florida Space Coast The Launch Pad · 24 Mar 2025 Live coverage: SpaceX Set to Launch Classified NROL-69 Mission from Florida Space Coast
- ESA Taps Spaceo-Led Consortium to Test Inflatable Satellite Deorbit System European Spaceflight · 24 Mar 2025 A consortium led by Portuguese start-up Spaceo has won a European Space Agency contract to test an inflatable drag sail designed to deorbit small satellites. Founded in 2023, Spaceo develops compact inflatable systems to...
- Submit your proposal to the European Launcher Challenge ESA · 24 Mar 2025 The European Launcher Challenge (ELC) is now open to proposals. Details about the ELC Programme can be found here. Any questions should be made exclusively via the dedicated function in esa-star tendering.
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission NASA · 24 Mar 2025 After completing a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts will discuss their science mission during a postflight news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 31, from...
- 50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39 NASA · 24 Mar 2025 On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo...
- Webb unmasks true nature of the Cosmic Tornado ESA · 24 Mar 2025 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy. Due to the close p...
- NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado NASA · 24 Mar 2025 Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick. This new composite image...
- Balancing national security and international cooperation in the competitive era of commercial space SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and I share a few commonalities: we were born a few blocks from each other in Manhattan, we both attended Columbia University, […]
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch national security satellite for NRO on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 24 Mar 2025 The mission will be the fifth of 2025 featuring spacecraft developed by the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff of the NROL-69 mission from pad 40 is set for 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 UTC).
- MaiaSpace signs first commercial launch contract SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 MaiaSpace, a small launch vehicle developer spun out of ArianeGroup, has signed its first commercial launch contract for missions launching as soon as 2027.
- Shenzhou-19 astronauts complete third spacewalk, install final debris shielding on Tiangong SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 HELSINKI — A pair of Chinese astronauts embarked on an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Friday, as the crew approaches the end of their six-month-long stay in orbit. […]
- The European Union’s push for next generation space electronics and critical technologies SpaceNews · 24 Mar 2025 Over the past decade, the European Commission has invested significantly in space research in order to strengthen Europe’s capabilities in critical technologies that have traditionally been sourced from outside the […]
- Pangea Aerospace raises Series A round to fund space propulsion work SpaceNews · 23 Mar 2025 Spanish propulsion startup Pangea Aerospace has raised 23 million euros ($25 million) to further development of advanced rocket engines for use in launch vehicles and spacecraft.
- Isar Aerospace set to make first orbital launch from continental Europe NASASpaceflight · 23 Mar 2025 Isar Aerospace, based near Munich, Germany, is scheduled to make the first ever launch attempt…
- What’s Happening in Space Policy March 23-29, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Mar 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of March 23-29, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- 60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight NASA · 23 Mar 2025 On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America’s first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person to...
- NASA Revises Artemis Mission Goals The Launch Pad · 23 Mar 2025 NASA Revises Artemis Mission Goals
- After Delays, ESA to Publish Launcher Challenge Call Next Week European Spaceflight · 22 Mar 2025 During a press briefing following the 332nd ESA Council meeting, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced that the agency will publish a call for proposals for the European Launcher Challenge in the coming week. A...
- Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain! NASA · 22 Mar 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 This terrain is a tricky drive, with rocks angled chaotically all around. One of ou...
- Former NASA astronauts endorse Isaacman as administrator SpaceNews · 22 Mar 2025 Nearly 30 former NASA astronauts have signed a letter endorsing Jared Isaacman as the agency’s next administrator, calling on the Senate to consider his nomination as soon as possible.
- Shocking Spherules! NASA · 22 Mar 2025 Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… and the team are now working...
- CAS Discovery and Foresight NASA · 21 Mar 2025 Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Discovery identifies problems worth solving for the benefit of all. We formulate “convergent” problems—across multiple disciplines and sectors—and build footholds toward potentially...
- Star Catcher completes first ground test for space power beaming service SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2025 Star Catcher Industries said it beamed concentrated solar energy over 100 meters March 21 to satellite solar arrays on the ground at EverBank Stadium, Florida, in its first demo of a capability planned for space.
- SpaceX Starbase May Soon Control Road Closures Thanks To New Legislation The Launch Pad · 21 Mar 2025 SpaceX Starbase May Soon Control Road Closures Thanks To New Legislation
- NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment NASA · 21 Mar 2025 Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosp...
- NASA Reveals Semifinalists of Power to Explore Challenge NASA · 21 Mar 2025 NASA has selected the 45 semifinalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
- Making Ripples NASA · 21 Mar 2025 A dolphin swims through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 6, 2007. The turn basin was carved out of the Banana River when NASA Kennedy was built. Dolphin...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York NASA · 21 Mar 2025 Students from Richmond Hill, New York,will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions fro...
- Trump White House drops diversity plan for Moon landing it created back in 2019 Ars Technica · 21 Mar 2025 "We’re updating our language regarding plans to send crew to the lunar surface."
- NASA’s Artemis II Orion Service Module Buttoned Up for Launch NASA · 21 Mar 2025 Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin fitted three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels onto the service module of the agency’s Orion’s spacecraft. The operation completed on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, inside t...
- NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 21st Cargo Space Station Departure NASA · 21 Mar 2025 After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners, Northrop Grumman’s uncrew...
- Introducing the new ESA's hyper performance computing ESA · 21 Mar 2025 The high-performance computing (HPC) environment will be available for scientific research and technological development activities, supporting all ESA programmes as well as the researchers and small- and medium-enterpri...
- Introducing ESA's new hyper performance computing ESA · 21 Mar 2025 The high-performance computing (HPC) environment will be available for scientific research and technological development activities, supporting all ESA programmes as well as the researchers and small- and medium-enterpri...
- Week in images: 17-21 March 2025 ESA · 21 Mar 2025 Week in images: 17-21 March 2025
- 3D Printing: Saving Weight and Space at Launch NASA · 21 Mar 2025 Science in Space March 2025 Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is regularly used on the ground to quickly produce a variety of devices. Adapting this process for space could let crew members create tools...
- Andrea Patassa | Astronaut Reserve Member, Test Pilot, Spiderman? | ESA Explores #11 ESA · 21 Mar 2025 Meet Andrea Patassa—test pilot, aviator, passionate outdoor adventurer, and Member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve.
- America’s space strategy in a changing Middle East SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2025 The geopolitical landscape is shifting beneath our feet as the United States recalibrates its global strategy. This strategic pivot carries profound implications not just for conventional U.S. military force posture […]
- Inner space engineering ESA · 21 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space Industries sets ambitious goals for satellite assembly, integration and testing SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2025 By 2030, Space Industries plans to assemble, integrate and test more than 220 satellites annually in a 3,000-square-meter clean room.
- ESA releases strategy document that emphasizes autonomy SpaceNews · 21 Mar 2025 The European Space Agency has released a strategy for its next 15 years that includes a greater emphasis on autonomy amid broader geopolitical changes.