Hubble Captures a Neighbor’s Colorful Clouds
NASA · 21 Mar 2025
Say hello to one of the Milky Way’s neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy lo...
MaiaSpace Has Secured Its First Commercial Customer
European Spaceflight · 21 Mar 2025
French launch startup MaiaSpace has secured its first commercial customer, signing a launch services agreement with in-space logistics company Exotrail. MaiaSpace is developing a small, two-stage, partially reusable rock...
French VLEO 5G startup strikes telecoms infrastructure partnership
SpaceNews · 20 Mar 2025
French satellite broadband startup CTO has teamed up with TDF, which operates France’s largest network of carrier-neutral hosting sites, to help integrate its proposed VLEO 5G services with terrestrial telcos.
Sols 4484-4485: Remote Sensing on a Monday
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Written by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Monday, March 17, 2025 Last week I was in Houston, Texas, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The mid-March weather in Houston i...
NASA Selects 14 Finalist Teams for the 2025 RASC-AL Competition
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Fourteen university teams have been selected as finalists for NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. This year’s competition invited undergraduate and graduate students from...
Celebrating 25 Years of Terra
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer On December 18, 2024, Terra—the first EOS Flagship mission celebrated the 25th anniversary of its launch from Vandenberg Space Force (then Air...
How NASA’s “Autonomy Choreography” Will Impact Advanced Technologies
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Imagine your car is in conversation with other traffic and road signals as you travel. Those conversations help your car anticipate actions you can’t see: the sudden slowing of a truck as it begins to turn ahead of you,...
How NASA’s “Autonomy Choreography” Will Impact Advanced Technologies
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Imagine your car is in conversation with other traffic and road signals as you travel. Those conversations help your car anticipate actions you can’t see: the sudden slowing of a truck as it begins to turn ahead of you,...
Hubble Sees a Spiral and a Star
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one another, even overlappi...
Students Explore Technical Careers at NASA
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland welcomed more than 150 students and educators to showcase technical careers, inspire the next generation, and ignite a passion for learning during a Career Technical Education pr...
The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: January–March 2025
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
NASA’s Earth Observing fleet continues to age gracefully. While several new missions have joined the fleet in the past year, scientists and engineers work to extend the life of existing missions and maximize their scienc...
The FireSense Project
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Wind is a major factor in fire. It controls how fires evolve and pose threats to the safety of communities. While weather balloons have traditi...
Kaye Honored with Pecora Award
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Jack Kaye, Associate Director for research with the Earth Science Division within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, has received the Pecora a...
Making the rules for the final frontier
SpaceNews · 20 Mar 2025
In this week's episode of Space Minds, Richard DalBello, Principal, RDB Space sits down with host David Ariosto.
NASA Langley Dedicates Artemis Moon Tree
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
A tree that sprouted from a seed that journeyed around the Moon and back is growing at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA’s Acting Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development...
NASA Langley Dedicates Artemis Moon Tree
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
A tree that sprouted from a seed that journeyed around the Moon and back is growing at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA’s Acting Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development...
332nd ESA Council: Media information session
ESA · 20 Mar 2025
Watch the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on the key decisions from the ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters i...
Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and the consumption of the sandwich, which lasted only about 30 seconds during th...
ESA and JAXA strengthen ties on Moon and Mars exploration
ESA · 20 Mar 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are taking a step forward in space exploration cooperation for Moon and Mars activities. Both agencies have signed a statement of intent,...
Beyond the Algorithm Challenge
NASA · 20 Mar 2025
The NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) seeks solutions to complex Earth Science problems using transformative or unconventional computing technologies such as quantum computing, quantum machine learning, neuromo...
Satellite operators want better space weather models
SpaceNews · 20 Mar 2025
Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low Earth orbit.
Two Small Rockets Carrying Student Payloads Launch from Esrange
European Spaceflight · 20 Mar 2025
Two small sounding rockets were successfully launched from Esrange Space Center in Sweden on 11 and 13 March as part of the REXUS programme. The rockets carried eight payloads built by university students from Germany, R...
NASA examining options for another Starliner test flight
SpaceNews · 20 Mar 2025
NASA is evaluating options for another test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle before beginning regular ISS missions.
Firefly and NASA Cheer Blue Ghost’s Total Success
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Mar 2025
Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the Moon was a complete success according to the company and its customer, NASA. The Blue Ghost Mission-1 (BGM-1) lander operated for the entire 14-days
Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space
NASA · 19 Mar 2025
More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world’s ocean. There are better maps of the Moon’s surface tha...
New Bridge Ready to Serve NASA, America’s Space Interests
NASA · 19 Mar 2025
The high-rise bridge that serves as the primary access point for employees and visitors to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida now is fully operational. In the late hours of March 18, 2025, the Florida Department of T...
Chinese company targets crewed orbital spaceflight
SpaceNews · 19 Mar 2025
HELSINKI — A Chinese space company is setting its sights on crewed orbital spaceflight, marking a new step in the expansion of China’s commercial space sector. Zhang Xiaomin, chairman of […]
Welcome Home, Crew-9!
NASA · 19 Mar 2025
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are all smiles as they wait to exit a SpaceX Drag...
Butch and Suni Return as Crew-10 Arrives on Station
Space Scout · 19 Mar 2025
NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission, a long duration mission to the International Space Station, lifted off successfully at 7:03 pm on March 15, putting on a spectacular show for members of the press and those along the Ea...
ESA Previews Euclid Mission’s Deep View of ‘Dark Universe’
NASA · 19 Mar 2025
With contributions from NASA, the mission is looking back into the universe’s history to understand how the universe’s expansion has changed. The Euclid mission — led by ESA (European Space Agency) with contributions fro...
Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset
NASA · 19 Mar 2025
This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s...