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- Reliant Space Supports Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 RESTON, VA, MARCH 11, 2025 – Reliant Space is proud to announce its critical role in supporting Firefly Aerospace’s control room operations for its historic Blue Ghost Mission 1, which […]
- SpaceX rescue mission for stranded ISS astronauts nears end — Here’s when they’ll return home Teslarati · 17 Mar 2025 SpaceX is ready to bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two astronauts that have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months. Last week, SpaceX launched its Crew-10 mission, which wo...
- Athena and IM-2 Lost After Landing Space Scout · 17 Mar 2025 Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission came to an abrupt end after an unsuccessful landing attempt on March 6. Although the spacecraft reached the surface intact, Athena toppled over after touchdown, leaving its solar panels i...
- Innovative Dutch Technology Captures Historic Image of Mars and Deimos During ESA’s Hera Mission flyby SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission […]
- Cambrian Works Selected by AFWERX for a $1.78M Direct-to-Phase II Contract SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 LOS GATOS, California – Cambrian Works announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1,779,778.57 focused on Alternate Position Navigation and Time […]
- Students Dive Into Robotics at Competition Supported by NASA JPL NASA · 17 Mar 2025 Robots built by high schoolers vied for points in a fast-moving game inspired by complex ocean ecosystems at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. High school students who spent weeks designing, assembling...
- Fresh crew docks at space station; Starliner astronauts expected to return to Earth Tuesday Spaceflight Now · 17 Mar 2025 Approaching from behind and below, the Crew Dragon, launched Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center, passed 1,300 feet directly under the station before looping up to a point 720 feet directly ahead of the outpost....
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch NASA · 17 Mar 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace...
- Firefly Aerospace wraps up successful Blue Ghost 1 mission SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 Firefly Aerospace says that its Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander mission has ended as expected, completing all its objectives.
- NASA, Firefly Invite Media to Discuss End of Blue Ghost Moon Mission NASA · 17 Mar 2025 NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the company’s successful Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon’s surface. Watch th...
- Webinar: Tracking Hypersonic Missiles SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 On Mar. 27, SpaceNews will host a panel discussion with experts from industry and the national security community to explore how space-based tracking technology is evolving, what advances are on the horizon, and how the...
- From pebbles to planets ESA · 17 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- From pebbles to planets ESA · 17 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA’s Lucy NASA · 17 Mar 2025 Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some...
- NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide NASA · 17 Mar 2025 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130 light-years away, has long been a key target for planet formation...
- Avio to Begin Testing Next-Gen Reusable Rocket Demonstrator in 2025 European Spaceflight · 17 Mar 2025 Avio has announced plans to begin testing its IFD1 single-stage reusable rocket demonstrator in Q3 2025. IFD1 is one of two demonstrators being developed under Avio’s Space Transportation Systems initiative, which is bac...
- Summer 2024 NASA · 17 Mar 2025 Help learners STEMify their summer through hands-on and engaging activities curated by the NASA eClips team. You’ll find something for everyone – Earth-based and out-of-this-world. This issue includes eClips videos, reso...
- September 2024 NASA · 17 Mar 2025 Fall back to school with this edition of the NASA eClips newsletter! Educators are provided with a host of resources to help engineer a great school year! Videos and activities focus on comparing science and engineering...
- Ceres-1 rocket launches 8 Chinese commercial satellites SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 4:07 a.m. […]
- Apollo left footprints — Mars must leave a legacy SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.” These words from President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural […]
- Biomass out of the box ESA · 17 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA gets extension to submit layoff plans SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 NASA has received an extension to a White House directive to develop a plan for cutting the agency’s workforce, saying its current workforce has been too busy.
- Constellr releases first-light imagery of Tokyo SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 German startup constellr released first-light imagery from the initial satellite in its thermal-imaging constellation.
- Space National Guard debate reignited with bipartisan legislation SpaceNews · 17 Mar 2025 The new legislative push comes just months after Congress approved the Space Force Personnel Management Act, which eliminated the traditional distinction between active duty, Reserve, and Guard units.
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-9 Return, Splashdown NASA · 16 Mar 2025 NASA will provide live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with Dragon spacecraft hatch closure preparations at 10:45 p.m. EDT Monday, March 17. NASA and...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy March 16-22, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 16 Mar 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of March 16-22, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess
- Relativity Space Preparing For Terran R First Flight The Launch Pad · 16 Mar 2025 Relativity Space Preparing For Terran R First Flight
- Crew-10 arrives at space station SpaceNews · 16 Mar 2025 A Crew Dragon spacecraft with four people on board docked with the International Space Station March 16, setting up the departure of an existing station crew in the coming days.
- Crew-10 Arrives at the ISS SpacePolicyOnline.com · 16 Mar 2025 Crew-10 arrived at the International Space Station just after midnight March 16. Commander Anne McClain (NASA), pilot Nichole Ayers (NASA), and mission specialists Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos)
- Intelligence and dual-use commercial satellites launch on Transporter-13 SpaceNews · 15 Mar 2025 Among the 74 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission was a technology demonstrator from the National Reconnaissance Office
- SpaceX launches Transporter-13 rideshare mission SpaceNews · 15 Mar 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched more than 70 payloads in the latest in its series of dedicated rideshare missions that have reshaped the smallsat industry.
- NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets NASA · 15 Mar 2025 Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa...
- Launches from Sweden Could Cost Norway Over €146M Per Flight European Spaceflight · 15 Mar 2025 A report from Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority outlines the potential risks posed by rockets launched from Sweden’s Esrange Space Centre over Norwegian airspace. It estimates that each launch could cost Norway more than...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 15 Mar 2025 A launch on Saturday would break the pad turnaround record at Space Launch Complex 40 by at least two hours. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 7:35 a.m. EDT (1135 UTC).
- Senate Passes Bill to Avert Government Shutdown, But Democrats in Disarray SpacePolicyOnline.com · 15 Mar 2025 The Senate passed a bill tonight to keep the government operating through the end of the fiscal year. Ordinarily that would be good news, but many Democrats strongly oppose the
- Rocket Lab launches Japanese SAR satellite SpaceNews · 15 Mar 2025 Rocket Lab launched a radar imaging satellite for a Japanese company March 14, the first of eight such missions under contract with that customer.
- Crew-10 launches, finally clearing the way for Butch and Suni to fly home Ars Technica · 15 Mar 2025 Crew 9 could return as early as next Wednesday.
- Crew-10 launches to space station SpaceNews · 14 Mar 2025 Four people are on their way to the International Space Station on a typical crew rotation mission that has become enmeshed in political controversy.
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to International Space Station NASA · 14 Mar 2025 Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A Spa...
- Crew-10 On Its Way to ISS SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Mar 2025 Space’s Crew Dragon Endurance lifted off from Kennedy Space Center this evening carrying Crew-10 to the International Space Station, two days later than planned. When they arrive at the ISS