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- 30 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 15th Group of Astronauts NASA · 9 Dec 2024 On Dec. 8, 1994, NASA announced the selection of its 15th group of astronauts. The diverse group comprised 19 candidates – 10 pilots and nine mission specialists, and included five women, two African Americans, one Asian...
- China is building on-orbit space situational awareness capabilities to navigate crowded orbits SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 HELSINKI — China is developing a dependence on space-based space situational awareness as its space activities expand, according to a new report. China’s on-orbit presence has grown dramatically in recent […]
- The Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon NASA · 9 Dec 2024 The Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon, Frost Moon, or the Winter Moon; the Moon before Yule or the Oak Moon; the Long Night Moon; the Child Moon; the Datta or Dattatreya Jayanti Festival Moon; the Karthika Deepam Festival...
- Launch Roundup: Kairos set for second launch attempt, Falcon 9 to launch 03b and GPS missions NASASpaceflight · 9 Dec 2024 This week, Japanese commercial company Space One will make a second attempt to launch its…
- Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Beyond Visual Line of Sight (UTM BVLOS) NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA’s Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Beyond Visual Line of Sight (UTM BVLOS) subproject aims to support the growing demand for drone flights across the globe. Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, of...
- NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 Series pr...
- NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean NASA · 9 Dec 2024 One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined. The ocean is an engine that drives Earth’s weat...
- NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined.
- NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets NASA · 9 Dec 2024 These celestial objects look like asteroids but act like comets now come in two flavors. The first dark comet — a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet — was reported less than...
- Station Science Top News: Dec. 6, 2024 NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Astronaut cognitive performance remains generally stable Researchers found that astronauts on six-month missions to the International Space Station demonstrated generally stable cognitive performance but mild changes in...
- Mary W. Jackson Portrait Revealed NASA · 9 Dec 2024 On Dec. 6, 2024, NASA leaders unveiled a portrait of the late Mary W. Jackson, pioneering aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA’s Langley Research Center. The portrait is displayed at the NASA Headquarters Mary W....
- NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 These celestial objects look like asteroids but act like comets now come in two flavors.
- Shattered Genesis spacecraft yields scientific discoveries 20 years after crash landing SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 In September 2004, NASA’s Genesis return sample capsule tumbled from the sky and slammed into the Utah desert in a remote part of the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, shattering […]
- NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and...
- Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award.
- Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s J...
- NASA invita a los medios a firma de Acuerdos de Artemis con Panamá y Austria NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Read this release in English here. El miércoles 11 de diciembre, Panamá y Austria firmarán los Acuerdos de Artemis en la sede de la NASA en Washington. Tras las ceremonias de firma, el administrador de la NASA, Bill Nels...
- NASA Invites Media to Panama, Austria Artemis Accords Signings NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, Panama and Austria will sign the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Following the signing ceremonies, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will h...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from US Students Abroad NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Students from U.S. military families based overseas will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, NASA astronauts Nick Hagu...
- Grants NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Award Terms and Conditions General Award Terms and ConditionsSpecial Terms and ConditionsProgram Specific Terms and ConditionsAppendix A: NASA Prior Approval Matrix for Research AwardsAppendix B: National Policy Requirem...
- 2024 Be An Astronaut Campaign NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA astronauts have been traveling to space for more than six decades and living there continuously since 2000. Now, NASA’s Artemis program is preparing to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon. As NASA cont...
- Congressmen push FAA to accelerate licensing process SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 As the FAA kicks off a committee to study ways to refine launch and reentry regulations, two members of Congress are asking the agency to move even faster.
- America must win the race for space solar power — or buy it from China SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 While Congress debates incremental changes to our energy policy, China is racing to secure perhaps the most transformative energy technology since nuclear power: the ability to beam limitless solar energy […]
- BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light ESA · 9 Dec 2024 On 1 December 2024, BepiColombo flew past Mercury for the fifth time. During this flyby, BepiColombo became the first spacecraft ever to observe Mercury in mid-infrared light. The new images reveal variations in temperat...
- “GenAI, Operators, and Nerds”: The Triad Behind Groundbreaking Space Domain Awareness SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 While generative AI accelerates space domain awareness (SDA), going further to link GenAI via multiple large language models (LLMs) delivers revolutionary advantages—allowing space operators to rapidly manage assets, pre...
- Supply chain woes in the defense industry: ‘Let’s not fool ourselves’ SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency: ‘We need the flight software for our satellites to be written in the U.S.’
- MaiaSpace CEO Suggests Partnership with Avio Could Benefit Europe European Spaceflight · 9 Dec 2024 MaiaSpace CEO Johann Leroy has suggested that a partnership with Italian rocket builder Avio could benefit both companies and bolster Europe’s independent access to space. Founded in early 2022 as a wholly-owned subsidia...
- UK methane leak spotted using satellites ESA · 9 Dec 2024 Researchers from the University of Leeds have detected methane leaking from a faulty pipe in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, using GHGSat satellite data – part of ESA’s Third Party Mission Programme. This marks the firs...
- U.S. Space Force official warns of rising Chinese threats SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2024 Gen. Michael Guetlein: ‘This new norm of behavior is very unsafe and unprofessional’
- What’s Happening in Space Policy December 8-14, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Dec 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of December 8-14, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Nelson “basically optimistic” about NASA’s future in the next administration SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2024 The outgoing administrator of NASA says he is “basically optimistic” about the future of the agency under the person proposed by President-elect Donald Trump to be his successor despite the strong possibility of signific...
- NDAA extends commercial spaceflight learning period and launch indemnification SpaceNews · 8 Dec 2024 A defense authorization bill includes language to extend a “learning period” limiting commercial human spaceflight regulations as well as indemnification for commercial launches.
- Globalstar and Parsons unveil satellite service for defense market SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2024 The collaboration leverages Globalstar's low-Earth orbit satellite infrastructure and Parsons' signal processing technology
- Heliophysics decadal survey recommends two flagship missions for NASA SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2024 A new decadal survey for solar and space physics recommends that NASA’s heliophysics program pursue two billion-dollar missions even as the agency proposes to cancel a recommendation from the previous decadal.
- SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 7 Dec 2024 The Starlink 12-5 mission includes 13 satellites featuring Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 12:12 a.m. EST (0512 UTC).
- Italy Begins Development of Nuclear Reactor for Lunar Settlements European Spaceflight · 7 Dec 2024 Italy’s national space agency, ASI, has kicked off its Selene project, which aims to develop small nuclear fission reactors to power settlements on the Moon. In 2023, the Selene (Sistema Energetico Lunare con l’Energia N...
- Space Foundation Launches Space Path Program to Help Companies Navigate the Space Industry SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2024 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jan. 7, 2025— Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 as a gateway to unite the global space community, today announced that its Space Commerce […]
- Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition NASA · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 25th Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which welco...
- Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Neuraspace installs second telescope to enhance space traffic monitoring SpaceNews · 7 Dec 2024 Portuguese space traffic management startup Neuraspace has installed a second optical telescope to help track low Earth orbit objects across both hemispheres.