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- SpaceX launches 131 payloads on Transporter-12 rideshare mission SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 The latest SpaceX rideshare mission Jan. 14 deployed satellites ranging from dozens of imaging satellites to reentry vehicles, tugs and even a “selfie sat.”
- Falcon 9 set to launch two landers to the Moon on the same mission NASASpaceflight · 14 Jan 2025 SpaceX is set to fly not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on…
- Loft Orbital raises $170 million to expand space infrastructure service SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 Loft Orbital has raised $170 million to expand manufacturing facilities and streamline operations with more artificial intelligence.
- Isaacman Wins Support, But Also Criticism from Republicans SpacePolicyOnline.com · 14 Jan 2025 Jared Isaacman’s expected nomination as NASA Administrator is winning both support and criticism from Republicans. Two prominent Republicans involved in crafting the Contract with America that led to Republicans gaining
- Varda’s second mission launches with U.S. Air Force payload SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 The company’s W-2 capsule launched aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas NASA · 14 Jan 2025 Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, generating a brief,...
- Best of 2024: Dinosaur Prepared to Safely Watch Solar Eclipse NASA · 14 Jan 2025 An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from M...
- Tomorrow.io NextGen offers high-resolution rain forecasts SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 Tomorrow.io satellites feed NextGen, a tool that offers global precipitation forecasts with a resolution of 2.5 kilometers.
- Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander NASA · 14 Jan 2025 As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon. These science payloads and...
- Rosotics pivots to focus on orbital transport vehicles SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 Rosotics seeks to build a propellant depot at Earth-moon Lagrange Point 5.
- SpaceX to launch 131 spacecraft on Transporter-12 Falcon 9 rideshare mission from California Spaceflight Now · 14 Jan 2025 The mission features orbital transfer vehicles that are carrying 30 of the payloads with 14 being deployed after the initial mission launch. Liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is set for 10:49 a.m. PS...
- Defense Department’s new tool to investigate on-orbit anomalies SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 Cloud-based tool to help military satellite operators determine if space weather caused on-orbit anomalies.
- SpaceX Transporter-12 launching more than 100 satellites NASASpaceflight · 14 Jan 2025 On Tuesday, January 14 SpaceX will launch the Transporter-12 rideshare mission from launch complex SLC-4E…
- A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever Ars Technica · 14 Jan 2025 During his third stay in orbit, Pettit is absolutely killing it.
- Yutu-2 rover likely immobile on the moon after historic lunar far side mission SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ever mission to land on the far side of the moon, may have made its final tracks, NASA lunar orbiter images […]
- NASA Deputy Administrator to Receive 2025 National Space Award NASA · 14 Jan 2025 The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation has selected NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a retired United States Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut, to receive the 2025 National Space Trophy...
- Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds NASA · 14 Jan 2025 In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen before: numerous red objects that appear small on the sky, which scientists soon...
- New Simulated Universe Previews Panoramas From NASA’s Roman Telescope NASA · 14 Jan 2025 Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore a myriad of Roman’...
- BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby: the movie ESA · 14 Jan 2025 Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the Sun. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft captured these images of the Solar System's smallest planet on 7 and 8 January 2025, befor...
- Congressman watches for potential changes at NASA under Trump administration SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 The congressman whose district includes NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says he is taking a wait-and-see approach to potential changes to the center.
- Martijn Blanken, Neo Space Group – Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Martijn Blanken, CEO, Neo Space Group (NSG).
- ArianeGroup Completes Key Prometheus Hot Fire Test European Spaceflight · 14 Jan 2025 ArianeGroup completed a successful hot fire test of the Prometheus rocket engine in late December 2024. The engine is being developed under a European Space Agency (ESA) contract and is designed to power reusable rockets...
- NOAA sees new applications for commercial weather data SpaceNews · 14 Jan 2025 NEW ORLEANS – In addition to purchasing global datasets, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to pay a premium for observations of oil spills or other events. For […]
- Blue Origin plans second launch attempt of New Glenn early on Tuesday Ars Technica · 14 Jan 2025 Weather conditions are not particularly favorable early on Tuesday.
- Launch Roundup: New Glenn and Starship headline a week dominated by SpaceX missions NASASpaceflight · 13 Jan 2025 SpaceX dominates this week’s launch manifest with three Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight…
- Blue Origin Set For 2nd New Glenn Launch Attempt Tonight! The Launch Pad · 13 Jan 2025 Blue Origin Set For 2nd New Glenn Launch Attempt Tonight!
- NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024 NASA · 13 Jan 2025 On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico through the United States and into Canada. Astronomers, educators, and organizations had been preparing the public for this grand celestial event...
- NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024 NASA · 13 Jan 2025 On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico through the United States and into Canada. Astronomers, educators, and organizations had been preparing the public for this grand celestial event...
- Earth in Far-Ultraviolet NASA · 13 Jan 2025 On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white picture was printed on Agfacontour p...
- Former NASA Official, Astronaut Bob Cabana Receives Top Civilian Award NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Robert Cabana, who served as a NASA associate administrator, astronaut, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps, received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, recognizing his exceptio...
- NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars NASA · 13 Jan 2025 The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star cluster M67, roughly...
- Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of ca...
- Air Force chief’s parting warning: U.S. must transform Space Force to counter China SpaceNews · 13 Jan 2025 Frank Kendall: ‘We're going to need a much bigger, much more capable, much more powerful Space Force’
- Station Science Top News: Jan. 10, 2025 NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Measurements from space support wildfire risk predictions Researchers demonstrated that data from the International Space Station’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrume...
- It’s a Scrub for the Inaugural Flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Jan 2025 Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is still on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch was scrubbed about 3:00 am ET this morning, two-thirds of the
- NASA Invites Media to Launch of Cosmic Origins, Solar Wind Missions NASA · 13 Jan 2025 Media accreditation is open for the launch of two NASA missions that will explore the mysteries of our universe and Sun. The agency is targeting late February to launch its SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of...
- Farnborough International Space Show & ISRSE-40 announce first wave of speakers SpaceNews · 13 Jan 2025 Leaders from NASA, Babcock International Group (Babcock), Lockheed Martin BAE Systems, UK Ministry of Defence, and US Government have been confirmed as speakers for the Farnborough International Space Show
- Newly Selected Citizen Science Proposals: A Peek at What’s Next NASA · 13 Jan 2025 In 2024, NASA selected 25 new citizen science proposals for funding that will lead to new projects and new results to look forward to in 2025 and beyond. Here’s a roundup of those selections and the principal investigato...
- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet NASA · 13 Jan 2025 The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black...
- How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? NASA Study Homes in on Answer NASA · 13 Jan 2025 An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky...