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- NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students NASA · 7 Mar 2025 NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps answered ques...
- U.S. military spaceplane completes 7th mission, including advanced orbital maneuvers SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 The X-37B spaceplane touched down at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 7.
- NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission NASA · 7 Mar 2025 NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide...
- IM-2 lunar lander mission ends SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 Intuitive Machines says its second lunar landing mission is over after concluding the toppled lander cannot generate sufficient power.
- NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon NASA · 7 Mar 2025 Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Statio...
- After less than a day, the Athena lander is dead on the Moon Ars Technica · 7 Mar 2025 "The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected."
- Webb wows with incredible detail in star-forming system ESA · 7 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System NASA · 7 Mar 2025 High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections...
- Regulations are in the crosshairs. But which ones? SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 Early in President Donald Trump’s first term, he turned to an executive order to accelerate deregulation. For each new mandate enacted, he called for the repeal of two regulations. This […]
- U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane lands following 434-day orbital mission Spaceflight Now · 7 Mar 2025 The secret winged spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Dec. 29, 2023 to conduct a classified mission. The landing concludes the seventh flight of the Boeing-built spacecraft since 2010.
- Week in images: 03-07 March 2025 ESA · 7 Mar 2025 Week in images: 03-07 March 2025
- Make America test again: How rapid, iterative testing will advance hypersonic development SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 The world has taken notice of the hypersonic technology that China and Russia are touting as unstoppable. Capable of maneuvering unpredictably at extreme speeds within the atmosphere, these weapons are […]
- UK Awards £65M Contract for BOREALIS Space Monitoring and Control System European Spaceflight · 7 Mar 2025 The UK government has awarded CGI UK a £65 million contract to develop the BOREALIS command, control, and data processing system for the National Space Operations Centre. Initiated in 2023, the BOREALIS project aims to d...
- White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent Ars Technica · 7 Mar 2025 "It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science."
- Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake NASA · 7 Mar 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of thi...
- Close-up of Proba-3’s Coronagraph, ready to dance ESA · 7 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- China highlights commercial space sector in government work report SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 HELSINKI — China’s latest government work report emphasizes the commercial space sector as a key driver of high-tech development, highlighting its potential to transform the nation’s space capabilities. China will […]
- Rocket Report: Starship fails for a second time; what’s to blame for Vulcan delays? Ars Technica · 7 Mar 2025 "During Starship's ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly."
- ESA and GSMA Foundry empower industry to achieve seamless global connectivity ESA · 7 Mar 2025 At MWC25 Barcelona, the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled a funding initiative, promoted in partnership with GSMA Foundry, to support projects aimed at integrating satellite and terrestrial networks for seamless conne...
- Earth from Space: Tirana, Albania ESA · 7 Mar 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Women powering up space ESA · 7 Mar 2025 Europe’s human spaceflight ambitions are reaching new heights, and ESA’s Astronaut Reserve is a key part of this journey. Selected in 2022, these talented individuals are undergoing Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) to en...
- The ART of training – part two ESA · 7 Mar 2025 ESA’s second group of Astronaut Reserve members has successfully completed the first block of their intensive Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) programme. Starting in January 2025, four members of the European Astronaut R...
- French Minister Heralds European Space Launch Autonomy In Changing Geopolitical Landscape SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Mar 2025 France’s Minister for Higher Education and Research heralded Europe’s space launch autonomy following the first commercial launch of the new Ariane 6 rocket today. Philippe Baptiste, who until recently headed
- Starship’s Eighth Test Flight Achieves 3rd Booster Catch but Ends in Ship Anomaly The Launch Pad · 7 Mar 2025 Starship’s Eighth Test Flight Achieves 3rd Booster Catch but Ends in Ship Anomaly
- Starship Flight 8: SpaceX nails Super Heavy booster catch but loses upper stage Teslarati · 7 Mar 2025 Flight 8 ended with mixed results as SpaceX nailed another Super Heavy Booster catch and the upper stage experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
- Intuitive Machines lunar lander healthy, but apparently on its side Spaceflight Now · 7 Mar 2025 A commercially built moon lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is "alive," officials said, but it's not...
- Starship upper stage lost in second mishap in a row Spaceflight Now · 7 Mar 2025 SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and for the second flight in a row, the vehicle failed...
- IFT-8: Another Booster Catch, Another Starship RUD SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Mar 2025 SpaceX succeeded in catching a Super Heavy booster this evening, but the Starship second stage was lost minutes later. It was the second Starship explosion in a row, again over
- Intuitive Machines’ second attempt to land on the Moon also went sideways Ars Technica · 7 Mar 2025 "I would like to get more data before we can determine the orientation."
- Starship destroyed on second consecutive test flight SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2025 SpaceX’s Starship vehicle suffered its second consecutive test flight failure March 6, tumbling in space before breakup up and reentering over the Caribbean.
- IM-2 Is On the Moon, But IM’s Not Sure Where SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 Mar 2025 Intuitive Machines got its second lander, IM-2, onto the lunar surface today, but like IM-1 last year it apparently is not in the correct orientation. IM-1 broke a leg and
- Sealing the Deal NASA · 6 Mar 2025 Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens...
- Danti expands AI-powered Earth data search engine to broader government market SpaceNews · 6 Mar 2025 The technology allows users to search satellite imagery and other geospatial data using natural language queries.
- Sols 4473-4474: So Many Rocks, So Many Textures! NASA · 6 Mar 2025 Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 The Martian landscape never ceases to amaze me, there is so much variation in texture and color! As a...
- Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II NASA · 6 Mar 2025 Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Scientific Mission on Space Station Concludes NASA · 6 Mar 2025 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the Inte...
- York taps commercial satellite technology for classified defense missions SpaceNews · 6 Mar 2025 York Space Systems plans to launch five missions in 2025 for commercial customers conducting classified experiments for the U.S. military
- Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters NASA · 6 Mar 2025 The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers th...
- NASA Invites You to Share Excitement of Agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch NASA · 6 Mar 2025 NASA invites the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, alon...
- What You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission NASA · 6 Mar 2025 Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity lab...