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- NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Testing NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft has cleared electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems will work together safely, without interference across a range of scenarios. “Reaching this phase shows that the...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 25 Feb 2025 The launch is a rideshare mission with secondary payloads from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, AstroForge and Epic Aerospace. Liftoff is set for no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7:16 p.m. EST (0016 UTC).
- U.S. Air Force to explore Xona Space’s commercial alternative to GPS SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 The company won a $4.6 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory
- Eutelsat hails pioneering 5G test over LEO SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 Amid growing efforts to bridge satellites and mobile networks, Eutelsat said it has successfully employed its OneWeb constellation to connect a broadband terminal with a core 5G network using next-gen smartphone protocol...
- NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora NASA · 25 Feb 2025 High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the...
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Do...
- Diamonds from NASA’s X-59 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful step toward flight with the conclusion of a series of engine performance tests. During maximum afterburner testing, a test demonstrating the engine’s...
- Magdrive Secures $10.5M to Advance High-Power Electric Propulsion, Announce US Expansion The Launch Pad · 25 Feb 2025 Magdrive Secures $10.5M to Advance High-Power Electric Propulsion, Announce US Expansion
- NASA’s Europa Clipper Uses Mars to Go the Distance NASA · 25 Feb 2025 The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, but it first will get the help of Mars’ gravitational force to get to deep space. On March 1, NASA’s Europa Clipper will streak...
- Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It’s about the same size as Earth’s Moon, but its surface looks very different....
- Science in Orbit: Results Published on Space Station Research in 2024 NASA · 25 Feb 2025 NASA and its international partners have hosted research experiments and fostered collaboration aboard the International Space Station for over 25 years. More than 4,000 investigations have been conducted, resulting in o...
- Time to refocus: America needs a stronger Space Force SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 The United States faces a new era of competition, one that is shifting the battlefield from the land, sea and air domains to the vastness of space. Our adversaries, particularly […]
- Magdrive Raises $10.5M to Advance Satellite Propulsion Systems European Spaceflight · 25 Feb 2025 UK-based in-space propulsion company Magdrive has announced the closure of a $10.5 million (€9.99 million) seed round to advance its high-thrust electric propulsion technology. Founded in 2019, Magdrive is developing a r...
- Former FCC Space Bureau chief joins law firm SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 The first head of the Federal Communications Commission’s Space Bureau is joining a space law practice at a major law firm.
- Magdrive raises $10.5 million and opens U.S. office SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 Magdrive plans to build a U.K. manufacturing facility and conduct on-orbit tests of electric plasma thrusters.
- SpaceNews Launches The SpaceNews Exchange: A New Hub for Jobs, Talent, and Connection in the Space Industry SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 Washington, D.C., February 25, 2025 – SpaceNews is excited to announce the launch of The SpaceNews Exchange, a dynamic job board designed to support the growing space industry by connecting […]
- NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon NASA · 25 Feb 2025 Assembly is underway for Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element, the module that will power the lunar space station's journey to and around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.
- The Outernet with Declan Ganley SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Declan Ganley, CEO & Chairman, Rivada networks.
- China to send a spacecraft out of the ecliptic to study the Sun’s poles SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit […]
- NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past NASA · 25 Feb 2025 A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars...
- NASA: New Study on Why Mars is Red Supports Potentially Habitable Past NASA · 25 Feb 2025 A new international study partially funded by NASA on how Mars got its iconic red color adds to evidence that Mars had a cool but wet and potentially habitable climate in its ancient past. The current atmosphere of Mars...
- Have we been wrong about why Mars is red? ESA · 25 Feb 2025 The Red Planet’s iconic rusty dust has a much wetter history than previously assumed, find scientists combining European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft data with new laboratory experiments on replica Mars dust. T...
- Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk ESA · 25 Feb 2025 The latest analysis from the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Defence Office has reduced the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 to 0.001%.
- SpaceX completes investigation into Starship Flight 7 mishap SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 Propellant leaks created by an unexpectedly strong harmonic response caused the loss of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle on a test flight last month.
- Poland Completes Second Variable-Thrust Rocket Engine Test Campaign European Spaceflight · 25 Feb 2025 The Łukasiewicz Research Network’s Institute of Aviation has successfully completed its second hot-fire test campaign for the Throttleable Liquid Propulsion Demonstrator rocket engine. Development of the Throttleable Liq...
- NASA associate administrator for exploration to retire SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 The head of NASA’s exploration programs is leaving the agency in the latest leadership shakeup since the start of the Trump administration.
- Asteroid 2024 YR4 No Threat to Earth, but Maybe the Moon SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Feb 2025 As many scientists expected, further observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 have reduced the chances of it colliding with Earth to basically zero. The asteroid made headlines a month ago when
- More Leadership Changes at NASA SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Feb 2025 NASA announced today that Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche is now Acting Associate Administrator, succeeding Jim Free who retired over the weekend. Cathy Koerner, who has been leading the
- Space Force to play ‘central role’ in Iron Dome U.S. missile defense initiative SpaceNews · 25 Feb 2025 Given the future system’s heavy reliance on space assets, "I think we have a central role to play," said Gen. Chance Saltzman.
- Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long...
- Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long...
- Despite looming defense cuts, analysts see long-term upside for space investments SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 Budget cuts and reallocations are creating an opening for commercial players in the space industry, said a report by the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald
- Launch Roundup: Starship, lunar lander, and telescope missions set for launch NASASpaceflight · 24 Feb 2025 Several significant missions are scheduled for this week, including the third lunar lander to launch…
- NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 91 Launch, Space Station Docking NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscos...
- Venus Blows Off Some Steam NASA · 24 Feb 2025 Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept. A little over a year later, NASA’s Pioneer Venus 1 would launch as the first of a two-spacecraft orbiter-probe com...
- Ames’ Own: Wayne R. Johnson Elected to the 2025 National Academy of Engineering Class NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA Ames’ Wayne Johnson Elected to 2025 Class of New Members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Dr. Wayne R. Johnson, aerospace engineer at Ames Research Center, will be inducted as a new member of the prestig...
- NASA Invites Media to Observe FireSense Prescribed Burn at Kennedy NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida invites media to attend a prescribed fire campaign event hosted by the NASA FireSense Project, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Campaign acti...
- More than 180 experts, space agencies, government officials and industry leaders confirmed for Farnborough International Space Show & ISRSE-40 programmes SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 Speakers from Rolls-Royce, Thales Alenia, NOAA, Babcock, European Space Agency, UK Space Agency, and Egyptian Space Agency are the latest to join the growing programmes of the Farnborough International Space […]
- NASA Names Acting Associate Administrator, More Leadership Changes NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro announced Monday Vanessa Wyche will serve as the acting associate administrator for the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington, effective immediately. Wyche, who had been the dire...
- SpaceX Targets Friday For Starship Flight 8 Following Flight 7 Anomaly Investigation The Launch Pad · 24 Feb 2025 SpaceX Targets Friday For Starship Flight 8 Following Flight 7 Anomaly Investigation