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- NASA Invites Media to Attend Alabama Space Day 2025 NASA · 24 Feb 2025 Media are invited to attend the 2025 Alabama Space Day from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S....
- NASA Marshall Reflects on 65 Years of Ingenuity, Teamwork NASA · 24 Feb 2025 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the expansion of its science, engineering, propulsion, and human spac...
- Asteroid 2024 YR4 may be a dud, but we will soon find many more threats Ars Technica · 24 Feb 2025 "The YR4 episode is just the beginning."
- Reaping space’s decline? Why to choose the durability of due regard over the debris of military devastation SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 Recent voices have urged the United States to violate the Outer Space Treaty (OST), the binding principles of humanity’s use of outer space, by engrossing private industry for advancing U.S. […]
- Avio Test Fires Multi-Purpose Green Engine for the First Time European Spaceflight · 24 Feb 2025 Italian rocket builder Avio has announced the first successful test firing of its new bipropellant rocket engine, designed for a range of in-orbit logistics applications. Avio announced that it had begun the development...
- Proba-3 stargazing to warm up for corona observations ESA · 24 Feb 2025 European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission will create artificial solar eclipses in orbit, allowing scientists to study the Sun’s corona for longer periods of time than would be possible during eclipses observed from Earth....
- Vary that thrust: longer hot-fire of rocket engine demonstrator ESA · 24 Feb 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Station Science Top News: Feb. 21, 2025 NASA · 24 Feb 2025 Improving space-based pharmaceutical research Researchers found differences in the stability and degradation of the anti-Covid drug Remdesivir in space and on Earth on its first research flight, but not on a second. This...
- Gilmour Space announces mid-March target for first Eris launch SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 Australian company Gilmour Space is targeting the middle of March for the first flight of its Eris rocket, while setting expectations for the vehicle’s debut.
- NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project NASA · 24 Feb 2025 Great ideas, and the talent and passion that bring them to life, can be found anywhere. In that spirit, NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) in 2024 selected its first group of community college students t...
- Space Development Agency satellite procurements moving forward amid heightened scrutiny SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 SDA is advancing the first major satellite acquisition since the removal of its former director Derek Tournear.
- Simulation Tools NASA · 24 Feb 2025 The Simulation and Graphics Branch produces several software tools to facilitate building and operating simulations. Many of these are available to download and are linked below. The Trick Simulation Environment provides...
- NASA employees advised to delay responses to “what did you do” email SpaceNews · 24 Feb 2025 NASA employees are being advised not to immediately respond to an OPM email despite a threat by Elon Musk that they could be fired if they did not.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy February 23-March 2, 2025 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Feb 2025 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of February 23-March 2, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and
- ESO’s VLT reveals inner wind layers of distant exoplanet NASASpaceflight · 23 Feb 2025 Using data from the four telescopic units of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large…
- KBR wins $176 million contract to modernize U.S. space surveillance site SpaceNews · 23 Feb 2025 The seven-year agreement covers operations, equipment maintenance, and upgrades to legacy space sensors.
- Propellant leak blamed for Falcon 9 upper stage uncontrolled reentry SpaceNews · 22 Feb 2025 SpaceX said that a Falcon 9 upper stage that reentered over Europe earlier this week suffered a propellant leak that prevented a controlled reentry.
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 22 Feb 2025 The Starlink 12-13 mission includes 13 satellites that have Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 11:42 p.m. EST (0442 UTC).
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 22 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from California Spaceflight Now · 22 Feb 2025 The Starlink 15-1 mission mission will launch to a 70 degree inclination, which was previously used for Starlink missions in Group 2 and Starshield missions for the NRO. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base...
- Gardens on Mars? No, Just Rocks! NASA · 22 Feb 2025 Over the past week, Perseverance has been parked at a location called “Tablelands,” an area containing the “Serpentine Lake” abrasion patch acquired a few weeks ago. The Mars 2020 team has been diligently analyzing the d...
- China launches ChinaSat-10R communications satellite from Xichang SpaceNews · 22 Feb 2025 HELSINKI — China launched a new communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit Saturday to replace the aging ChinaSat-10 spacecraft. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 7:11 a.m. Eastern […]
- SpaceX Confirms Falcon 9 Second Stage Reentry Over Europe Following Anomaly The Launch Pad · 22 Feb 2025 SpaceX Confirms Falcon 9 Second Stage Reentry Over Europe Following Anomaly
- PLD Space Signs Agreement to Launch Miura 5 from Oman European Spaceflight · 22 Feb 2025 Spanish launch provider PLD Space has signed an agreement with Oman’s Etlaq Spaceport, securing it as the company’s second launch site for the Miura 5 rocket. Miura 5 is a 35.7-metre, two-stage rocket that will, once ope...
- NASA selects SpaceX to launch NEO Surveyor SpaceNews · 22 Feb 2025 NASA picked SpaceX for the launch of a space telescope dedicated to searching for near Earth objects.
- House members seek more details on DOGE activities at NASA SpaceNews · 22 Feb 2025 Top Democrats on the House Science Committee want details about the work DOGE is doing at NASA, calling the lack of transparency “ominous and unacceptable.”
- NASA Selects SpaceX to Launch NEO Surveyor Mission for Planetary Defense The Launch Pad · 21 Feb 2025 NASA Selects SpaceX to Launch NEO Surveyor Mission for Planetary Defense
- Boom or bust? Making sense of conflicting signals in the space economy SpaceNews · 21 Feb 2025 Conflicting signals are painting a confusing picture for a space economy caught between short-term caution and long-term optimism.
- NASA Awards Spacecraft Contract to BAE Systems for Next NOAA Space Weather Program The Launch Pad · 21 Feb 2025 NASA Awards Spacecraft Contract to BAE Systems for Next NOAA Space Weather Program
- US Space Force Releases Image from Highly Classified X-37B Spaceplane The Launch Pad · 21 Feb 2025 US Space Force Releases Image from Highly Classified X-37B Spaceplane
- NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract NASA · 21 Feb 2025 NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to...
- BAE wins $230.6 million contract for space weather program SpaceNews · 21 Feb 2025 BAE Systems won a $230.6 million contract to deliver spacecraft for NOAA's Lagrange 1 Series space weather project.
- SpaceX Starship’s next test flight gets target date – Here’s when it could lift off Teslarati · 21 Feb 2025 SpaceX’s Starship will soon be lifting off for its eighth test flight, according to federal airspace advisory listings, as the Elon Musk-headed company will look to rebound from its most recent launch that ended in the d...
- NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program NASA · 21 Feb 2025 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series...
- Starship Flight 8 vehicles prepare to join forces at Pad A NASASpaceflight · 21 Feb 2025 SpaceX has completed the engine test campaigns for both Ship 34 and Booster 15, which…
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape NASA · 21 Feb 2025 The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years aw...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch NASA · 21 Feb 2025 Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than...
- NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station NASA · 21 Feb 2025 NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.
- Kapta Space exits stealth mode with bold plans for space-based target tracking SpaceNews · 21 Feb 2025 The Seattle-based startup will attempt to demonstrate metasurface antenna technology for space-based radar
- PLD Space signs agreement to launch from spaceport in Oman SpaceNews · 21 Feb 2025 Spanish company PLD Space plans to conduct launches of its Miura 5 small launch vehicle from a new spaceport in Oman starting as soon as 2027.
- NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind NASA · 21 Feb 2025 Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-...