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- NASA Wallops to Support January Sounding Rocket Launch NASA · 10 Jan 2025 A suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window extending from Monday, Jan. 13, through Thursday, Jan. 16. This launch supports the Missile Defense Agency, Naval...
- A glowing ring of metal fell to Earth, and no one has any idea what it is Ars Technica · 10 Jan 2025 The large ring weighs nearly half a ton and does not match a returning rocket.
- Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 2...
- NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior NASA · 10 Jan 2025 LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a...
- Los Angeles struggles to contain wildfires ESA · 10 Jan 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S...
- A vision for better MilSatCom in the United Kingdom SpaceNews · 10 Jan 2025 As geopolitical tensions escalate and new technologies reshape the nature of defense, the threat to the critical infrastructure we maintain in space is growing at an unprecedented pace. The changing […]
- ESA budget dips slightly in 2025 SpaceNews · 10 Jan 2025 ESA is starting 2025 with a budget slightly less than in 2024 as it finalizes a package of programs that will likely require major budget increases.
- Hubble Rings In the New Year NASA · 10 Jan 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest t...
- SpaceX launches NROL-153, expanding U.S. spy satellite constellation SpaceNews · 10 Jan 2025 The launch marks the seventh deployment in the NRO's new "proliferated architecture" strategy, which emphasizes smaller, distributed satellite networks
- In a materials world ESA · 10 Jan 2025 From the ESA Blogs.
- Testing of Key Ariane 6 Upgrade to Begin in March European Spaceflight · 10 Jan 2025 The European Space Agency and industry partner Avio will begin testing the P160 solid-fuel booster in March 2025. The booster will replace the current P120 booster and will be a key element in enabling Arianespace to del...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 10 Jan 2025 The launch includes 13 Starlink V2 Mini satellites that have Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 11:21 a.m. EST (1621 UTC).
- Why are wildfires raging across Southern California? Well, it’s complicated. Ars Technica · 9 Jan 2025 "I think we’ve got more questions than answers at this point."
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated due to LA wildfire SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been closed down and evacuated as the Eaton Fire continues to burn, at its closest, less than one mile away from the facility.
- Rubicon delivers propulsion for NASA dual-mode mission SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 Rubicon Space Systems built the multimode propulsion system for a NASA mission scheduled to launch in October.
- SpaceX confirms next Starship launch target – Here’s when it will take off Teslarati · 9 Jan 2025 SpaceX has confirmed a new target date for the seventh Starship test launch after weather in Texas delayed the first scheduled date for “three or four days.” The company is now targeting the launch for Monday, January 13...
- U.S. military satellites achieve first cross-vendor laser communications link SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 The Space Development Agency that oversees the program has emphasized the adoption of open standards for interoperability
- Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting NASA · 9 Jan 2025 Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attende...
- Researchers propose UN goal to curb space debris SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 Countries must unite to include space stewardship in the United Nations’ sustainable development goals to address an escalating threat of orbital debris, an international group of scientists and other experts warned.
- 35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility NASA · 9 Jan 2025 On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Daniel Brandenstein, Pilot James Wetherbee, and Mission S...
- Dutch military signs satellite intelligence deal with Maxar SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 The Netherlands and other U.S. allies are seeking to leverage commercial space services
- Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop NASA · 9 Jan 2025 What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flig...
- Intuitive Machines set for second landing, looking to build a lunar economy Ars Technica · 9 Jan 2025 "You just can't trash everything associated with the Moon and go to Mars."
- Germany, Italy, and the UK Slash ESA Contributions by €430M European Spaceflight · 9 Jan 2025 The European Space Agency’s 2025 budget has dropped below its 2024 level after Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom collectively cut their contributions by €430 million. During his annual press briefing on 9 January, E...
- Achieving Instrument High Accuracy In-Orbit NASA · 9 Jan 2025 One of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing from space is achieving required instrument calibration accuracy on-orbit. The Moon is considered to be an excellent exoatmospheric calibration source. However, the cur...
- ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing ESA · 9 Jan 2025 Watch the replay of ESA's start-of-the-year press briefing looking ahead to 2025.
- Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby ESA · 9 Jan 2025 On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around the planet in late 2026. The spa...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starshield satellites for the NRO on Falcon 9 rocket from California Spaceflight Now · 9 Jan 2025 The launch is the first of about half a dozen missions planned to expand the National Reconnaissance Office’s proliferated architecture satellite constellation. Liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is s...
- NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry NASA · 9 Jan 2025 The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memora...
- Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up MSR to commercial competition SpaceNews · 8 Jan 2025 Rocket Lab is asking the incoming administration to reconsider NASA’s plans for Mars Sample Return (MSR), arguing it can offer a better alternative.
- Italian interest in Starlink strikes at the heart of European space solidarity Ars Technica · 8 Jan 2025 "We are strong if we remain united and defend our infrastructure."
- Former Pentagon space policy official Stephen Kitay joins startup True Anomaly SpaceNews · 8 Jan 2025 The Colorado-based startup develops specialized satellites for space domain awareness
- A Rover Retrospective: Turning Trials to Triumphs in 2024 NASA · 8 Jan 2025 A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024 Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission’s highest highs, but also some of its greatest challenges. True to i...
- NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor NASA · 8 Jan 2025 NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Electr...
- Intelsat and OneWeb expand multi-orbit services in Alaska SpaceNews · 8 Jan 2025 Intelsat has announced its first enterprise multi-orbit broadband deal with a telco since expanding its partnership last year with OneWeb.
- NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and ree...
- Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbi...
- Electrodynamic Dust Shield Heading to Moon on Firefly Lander NASA · 8 Jan 2025 Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy...
- AMS Hyperwall Schedule NASA · 8 Jan 2025 NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 13 6:10 – 6:25 PM The Golden...