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- Alfonso Delgado Bonal Has His Head in the Clouds — for Research NASA · 26 Nov 2024 Research scientist Alfonso Delgado Bonal makes important discoveries about patterns in cloud movements while thriving within the NASA Goddard family. Name: Alfonso Delgado BonalFormal Job Classification: Research scienti...
- This Thanksgiving, We’re Grateful for NASA’s Amateur Scientists! NASA · 26 Nov 2024 This year, we’re giving thanks to you for Doing NASA Science! You and the millions of other volunteers have enabled an incredible banquet of discoveries—by taking data, analyzing data, writing code, writing papers, and e...
- NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities NASA · 26 Nov 2024 As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data t...
- Art Meets Exploration: Cosmic Connections in Galveston NASA · 26 Nov 2024 The Texas Art Education Association hosted its annual conference from Nov. 14–16 at Moody Gardens Hotel & Convention Center in Galveston, Texas, drawing nearly 3,000 educators, administrators, and artists. This year’s th...
- Space Station Research Tests Performance of Self-Healing Quantum Technology NASA · 26 Nov 2024 The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility mounted on the outside of the International Space Station allows researchers to test the performance and durability of materials and devices. This is done by exposing items of...
- Eclipse-maker: How Proba-3 subtracts the Sun ESA · 26 Nov 2024 Hidden in plain sight within the Sun’s glare is the ultra-hot yet ghostly faint solar corona, source of the solar wind and solar storms. The only way to see this key element of the Solar System is either through the rema...
- Pawel Skonieczka, Deutsche Bank – Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Pawel Skonieczka, Director - TMT Investment Banking, Deutsche Bank.
- Overregulation is stifling the commercial space industry. The Launch Communications Act is a good start. SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 The People’s Republic of China remains the United States’ chief adversary in space. In his October 2022 speech at the 20th Party Congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the innovation […]
- Spectrum AMT to produce D-Orbit USA satellites SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 SAN FRANCISCO — Spectrum Advanced Manufacturing Technologies announced an agreement Nov. 26 to manufacture satellites and components for D-Orbit USA. D-Orbit USA, formed by Italian space logistics company D-Orbit, select...
- NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch Dragonfly mission SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a multibillion-dollar mission to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2028.
- CNES to Once Again Launch Sounding Rockets from French Guiana European Spaceflight · 26 Nov 2024 The French space agency, CNES, has announced plans to reopen the Guiana Space Centre’s sounding rocket launch complex. The agency has signed an agreement with the French launch startup Opus Aerospace, which will use the...
- Emerging Engineering Leader Basil Baldauff Emphasizes Osage Values NASA · 26 Nov 2024 Basil Baldauff knew early in his tenure at NASA’s Johnson Space Center that he wanted to become a leader within the agency and make an impact on the future of space exploration. As a contract electrical design and test e...
- Launch Roundup: ZhuQue-2E set for first flight; SpaceX, Russia to launch classified missions NASASpaceflight · 25 Nov 2024 Landspace is expected to debut the enhanced version of its ZhuQue-2 rocket this week, and…
- Firefly sets January launch date for first lunar lander mission SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Firefly Aerospace says it is planning a launch of its first lunar lander mission in January, meaning that none of the three commercial lander missions once slated to launch in the fourth quarter of this year will do so.
- NASA’s Commercial Partners Make Progress on Low Earth Orbit Projects NASA · 25 Nov 2024 NASA and its commercial partners continue to drive innovation in space exploration, achieving milestones that will ultimately benefit human spaceflight and commercial low Earth orbit efforts. These recent achievements fr...
- NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Dragonfly Mission NASA · 25 Nov 2024 NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials an...
- SpaceX eyes 25 annual Starship launches starting next year Teslarati · 25 Nov 2024 SpaceX is potentially looking to launch Starship 25 times starting next year, a major uptick in the number of times the rocket will take off compared to years past. Starship launches are becoming more frequent now that S...
- Mini NASA Robot Takes a SWIM NASA · 25 Nov 2024 A 16.5-inch-long prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water’s surface during a test in a competition swimming pool in September 2024. Conducted by NASA’s Jet Propuls...
- NASA Ames Stars of the Month: November 2024 NASA · 25 Nov 2024 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Forrest Melton, Ariel Deutsch, Dan Sirbu, and Chanel Idos. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrep...
- Station Science Top News: Nov. 22, 2024 NASA · 25 Nov 2024 Space-grown crystals could lead to targeted cancer drugs Researchers used space-grown protein crystals to determine the structure of a helix-loop-helix (HLH) peptide (one with a double helix and connecting loop) in a com...
- Pentagon underestimated supply chain fragility, now racing to fix gaps SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of Space Systems Command: ‘We're realizing there are true industrial base concerns’
- EnduroSat orders 100 Enpulsion propulsion systems SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Bulgarian microsatellite specialist EnduroSat has ordered 100 electric propulsion systems from Austria’s Enpulsion as demand for larger spacecraft continues to rise.
- Optimax names new CEO and president SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Ontario, N.Y. — Optimax, the largest precision optics manufacturer in the United States, has announced the appointment of Joseph Spilman as CEO and Pete Kupinski as president. With a solid […]
- Starship Completes Flight 6, Aborts Tower Catch Space Scout · 25 Nov 2024 SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy launch vehicle completed a sixth flight test on Tuesday, November 19th, capping off an eventful year for this unique development program.
- NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying NASA · 25 Nov 2024 Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist. NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Eur...
- Weekly Roundup for SpacePolicyOnline.com: November 18-24, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Nov 2024 Here are links to all the articles published on SpacePolicyOnline.com from November 18-24, 2024 including our “What’s Happening in Space Policy” for this coming week. Click on each title to
- NASA, JAXA XRISM Mission Looks Deeply Into ‘Hidden’ Stellar System NASA · 25 Nov 2024 The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky. Cygnus X-3 is a b...
- NASA Invites Media to Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to Moon NASA · 25 Nov 2024 Media accreditation is open for the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign for the benefit of humanity. A six-day launch window opens no earlier...
- Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image ESA · 25 Nov 2024 A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104). The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images does not shine, and inste...
- Hats Off to NASA’s Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image NASA · 25 Nov 2024 In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the Sombrero galaxy, also known...
- Space firms see government contracting shakeup in second Trump term SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 ‘We're going to see more budgets moving from traditional programs of record into the newer space community’
- Italy to Reopen Kenya-Based Offshore Launch Facility European Spaceflight · 25 Nov 2024 An Italian-run space centre located in Kenya will once again host rocket launches from an offshore launch platform. Italy built the Luigi Broglio Space Center near Malindi, Kenya, in the 1960s. In addition to providing g...
- ISS crew reports “unexpected odor” from Russian Progress cargo spacecraft SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Hatches between a Russian module and the rest of the International Space Station were closed hours after a Progress cargo spacecraft docking Nov. 23 when the station’s crew reported an “unexpected odor” from the spacecra...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 25 Nov 2024 The mission would be SpaceX’s second of the day and likely the last before the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-76 mission from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is set for no earlier than...
- China launches pair of SuperView Neo-2 radar satellites SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 HELSINKI — China launched a pair of radar satellites late Sunday for a state-owned firm building a 28-satellite remote sensing constellation. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 6:39 […]
- Rocket Lab launches two Electrons within 24 hours SpaceNews · 25 Nov 2024 Rocket Lab launched a pair of Electron rockets with 24 hours of each other Nov. 24, a first for the company.
- Final call to apply to the ESA Student Internship Programme ESA · 25 Nov 2024 The countdown is on! The 2024 call for applications for ESA’s Student Internship Programme closes on 30 November. This is your moment to take the first step towards an extraordinary career in space. Explore this year’s i...
- SpaceX Targets Jan 11 2025 For Starship Flight Test 7; NASA High-Tech Gulfstream To Capture Re-Entry The Launch Pad · 25 Nov 2024 SpaceX Targets Jan 11 2025 For Starship Flight Test 7; NASA High-Tech Gulfstream To Capture Re-Entry
- Toxic Smell from Progress MS-29 Triggers Decontamination Procedures SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Nov 2024 Cosmonauts opening the new Progress MS-29 cargo ship that docked with the International Space Station yesterday observed a toxic smell and droplets. Decontamination procedures reportedly were implemented on both the
- After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell Ars Technica · 24 Nov 2024 Cosmonauts aboard the Russian segment of the station donned protective equipment.