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- NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt NASA · 20 Dec 2024 NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb...
- Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn NASA · 20 Dec 2024 Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many cele...
- Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars NASA · 20 Dec 2024 Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet’s northern hemisphere goes through an active — even explosive — spring thaw. While New Year’s Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game:...
- NASA Runs X-59 Engine with Maximum Afterburner for First Time NASA · 20 Dec 2024 NASA completed the first maximum afterburner engine run test on its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Dec. 12. The ground test, conducted at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, marks...
- NASA Science Payload to Study Sticky Lunar Dust Challenge NASA · 20 Dec 2024 The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as “lunar regolith.” During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, p...
- Turion Space secures $32.6 million military contract for in-orbit space surveillance SpaceNews · 20 Dec 2024 The U.S. Space Force contract is for three small satellites to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations and in-space surveillance of space debris
- ESA and NASA deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting ESA · 20 Dec 2024 Global warming is driving the rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, contributing to global sea level rise and disrupting weather patterns worldwide. Because of this, precise measurements of its changing shape are of...
- 25 Years Ago: STS-103, The Hubble Servicing Mission-3A NASA · 20 Dec 2024 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, plac...
- NASA Study Shows Ferns Facilitate Recovery from Environmental Disaster NASA · 20 Dec 2024 NASA-supported scientists have shown how ferns might help ecosystems recover from disasters.
- The case to build a new ISS: the International Solar Sunshade SpaceNews · 20 Dec 2024 Imagine building a shield in orbit to protect Earth against environmental destruction — a fleet of cooperative satellites forming a massive umbrella that reduces solar energy reaching Earth, mitigating the […]
- NASA, Notre Dame Connect Students to Inspire STEM Careers NASA · 20 Dec 2024 High school students in Indiana are contributing to NASA’s groundbreaking research to develop quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft engines. Their learning experience is a collaboration between aircraft noise researchers...
- NASA Flight Rerouting Tool Curbs Delays, Emissions NASA · 20 Dec 2024 It’s the holiday season — which means many are taking to the skies to join their loved ones. If you’ve ever used an app to navigate on a road trip, you’ve probably noticed how it finds you the most efficient route to you...
- ESA 2025: A fifty-years legacy of building the future ESA · 20 Dec 2024 In 1975, 10 European countries came together with a vision to collaborate on key space activities: science and astronomy, launch capabilities and space applications: the European Space Agency, ESA, was born.
- FAA updates Starship launch license for next flight SpaceNews · 20 Dec 2024 The FAA has issued an updated license for the next flight of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle, with a launch likely in the first half of January.
- Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye NASA · 20 Dec 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of this galaxy, and...
- Year in images 2024 ESA · 20 Dec 2024 Year in images 2024
- Hera asteroid mission in your house ESA · 20 Dec 2024 From the ESA Blogs.
- The ART of training ESA · 20 Dec 2024 For the first group of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve, two intensive months of Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) have come to a close. During this initial training phase, members of the ESA Astronaut Reserve Sara García Alonso f...
- Germany Commits €95M More to Isar, RFA, and HyImpulse European Spaceflight · 20 Dec 2024 The German government has announced that it will make €95 million in additional funding available to support Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and HyImpulse. On 19 December, the German government announced that th...
- Sols 4398-4401: Holidays Ahead, Rocks Under the Wheels NASA · 20 Dec 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024 It’s almost holiday time, and preparations are going ahead on Earth and Mars! For myself that means having a packed suitcase sitting behind me to go on my holiday travels tom...
- Happy holidays from Hera! ESA · 20 Dec 2024 From the ESA Blogs.
- Earth from Space: Star cities ESA · 20 Dec 2024 From the ESA Blogs.
- Producing fuel on Mars using astronaut wastewater ESA · 20 Dec 2024 In future missions to Mars, astronauts will need to maximise the use of all resources available on site to produce essential supplies like oxygen, water and fuel. A team from Spanish technological centre Tekniker and the...
- House Defeats New CR as Shutdown Looms SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Dec 2024 The shutdown saga continued today as Republican House leadership brought a pared down Continuing Resolution to the floor for a vote knowing it probably would fail, and it did, with
- Next Crew Dragon mission delayed a month SpaceNews · 20 Dec 2024 Delays in the completion of a new Crew Dragon spacecraft will extend the stay of astronauts on the International Space Station by a month.
- NASA Cameras to Capture Interaction Between Blue Ghost, Moon’s Surface NASA · 20 Dec 2024 Say cheese again, Moon. We’re coming in for another close-up. For the second time in less than a year, a NASA technology designed to collect data on the interaction between a Moon lander’s rocket plume and the lunar surf...
- Perseverance Blasts Past the Top of Jezero Crater Rim NASA · 19 Dec 2024 I have always loved the mountains. Growing up on the flat plains of Midwestern USA, every summer I looked forward to spending a few days on alpine trails while on vacation. Climbing upward from the trailhead, the views c...
- We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time Ars Technica · 19 Dec 2024 "Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind."
- Gateway: Wired for Deep Space NASA · 19 Dec 2024 A maze of cables and sensors snakes through a major piece of Gateway, humanity’s first space station around the Moon, during a key testing phase earlier this year to ensure the lunar-orbiting science lab can withstand th...
- New Report Analyzes Long History of NASA Support for Commercial Space NASA · 19 Dec 2024 NASA published a new report Thursday highlighting 17 agency mechanisms that have directly and indirectly supported the development and growth of the U.S. commercial space sector for the benefit of humanity. The report, t...
- Artemis II Core Stage Vertical Integration Begins at NASA Kennedy NASA · 19 Dec 2024 NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets for Artemis Moon missions inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Cente...
- Five Ways to Explore NASA’s Portfolio of Technologies with TechPort 4.0 NASA · 19 Dec 2024 Have you ever wanted to find all your favorite NASA technology in one place? NASA stakeholders did, too! We listened to your feedback, brainstormed user-focused features, and created the most robust technology system to...
- Nargess Memarsadeghi, Computer Engineer for the Cosmos NASA · 19 Dec 2024 When it comes to building spaceflight missions, the software is at least as important as the hardware. For computer engineer Nargess Memarsadeghi, having a hand in the programming is like getting to go along for the ride...
- Statistical Analysis Using Random Forest Algorithm Provides Key Insights into Parachute Energy Modulator System NASA · 19 Dec 2024 Download PDF: Statistical Analysis Using Random Forest Algorithm Provides Key Insights into Parachute Energy Modulator System Energy modulators (EM), also known as energy absorbers, are safety-critical components that ar...
- Blue Origin may hot fire its New Glenn rocket as soon as today Ars Technica · 19 Dec 2024 "Maybe, maybe, maybe today, maybe soon. I think it's very soon."
- Contact Dynamics Predictions Utilizing theNESC Parameterless Contact Model NASA · 19 Dec 2024 Download PDF: Contact Dynamics Predictions Utilizing theNESC Parameterless Contact Model Modeling the capture of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) Orbiting Sample (OS) involves understanding complex dynamic behavior, which in...
- China nears record launch year with Ceres-1 and SAR satellite missions SpaceNews · 19 Dec 2024 HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy conducted its fourth sea launch early Thursday as China continued its recent high launch cadence. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 5:18 […]
- NASA Names Carlos Garcia-Galan as Gateway Program Deputy Manager NASA · 19 Dec 2024 NASA has selected Carlos Garcia-Galan as deputy manager for the Gateway Program. Garcia-Galan previously served as manager of the Orion Program’s European Service Module Integration Office at Glenn Research Center. “I am...
- Program Manager at NASA Glenn Earns AIAA Sustained Service Award NASA · 19 Dec 2024 Christopher Pestak, program manager of the Glenn Engineering and Research Support (GEARS) contract at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received the 2025 Sustained Service Award from the American Institute o...
- NASA Glenn’s Office of Communications Earns Top Honors NASA · 19 Dec 2024 NASA Glenn Research Center’s Office of Communications earned top honors — including Best in Show — during the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)’s Cleveland Rocks Awards on Nov. 19. During the event, the PRSA Gre...