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- NASA, SpaceX Illustrate Key Moments of Artemis Lunar Lander Mission NASA · 20 Nov 2024 NASA is working with U.S. industry to develop the human landing systems that will safely carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back throughout the agency’s Artemis campaign. For Artemis III, th...
- STS-129 Crew Aboard the Space Station NASA · 20 Nov 2024 The STS-129 crew members pose for a portrait following a joint news conference with the Expedition 21 crew members on Nov. 24, 2009. Astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Rand...
- Lockheed Martin’s new mid-size satellite platform closer to launch SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 The LM 400 is now scheduled to launch in mid 2025 on a Firefly Alpha rocket for a demonstration mission
- Media Invited to Learn About NASA, GE Aerospace Contrails Flight Tests NASA · 20 Nov 2024 Media are invited to learn about a unique series of flight tests happening in Virginia in partnership between NASA and GE Aerospace that aim to help the aviation industry better understand contrails and their impact on t...
- SpaceX provides more insight on why it canceled Starship catch attempt Teslarati · 20 Nov 2024 SpaceX is providing more insight on why it decided to cancel its attempt at catching Starship’s Super Heavy booster. It would have...
- NASA’s Chandra, Hubble Tune Into ‘Flame-Throwing’ Guitar Nebula NASA · 20 Nov 2024 Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA’s...
- Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet NASA · 20 Nov 2024 The discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest p...
- Protected: 2024 Blue Marble Awards NASA · 20 Nov 2024 There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
- What is BioSentinel? NASA · 20 Nov 2024 Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 20, 2024 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked two years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Statio...
- 5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun NASA · 20 Nov 2024 With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create oppo...
- SpaceX just got exactly what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches Ars Technica · 20 Nov 2024 "All pertinent conditions and requirements of the prior approval have been met."
- China performs fairing separation test for crewed moon mission rocket SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — China has taken another step toward its crewed lunar goals by successfully testing fairing separation for its Long March 10 moon rocket series. The fairing separation test
- NASA’s Brad Doorn Brings Farm Belt Wisdom to Space-Age Agriculture NASA · 20 Nov 2024 From his South Dakota roots to leading NASA’s agricultural program, Brad Doorn’s mission has remained the same: help farmers feed the world.
- Shooting for the Stars: NASA Lights Up the Court at Toyota Center NASA · 20 Nov 2024 On Nov. 6, 2024, NASA Night brought cosmic excitement to the Toyota Center, where Johnson Space Center employees joined 16,208 fans who interacted with NASA as they watched the Houston Rockets claim victory over the San...
- NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly NASA · 20 Nov 2024 In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds. When NASA’s Europa Clipper reaches its destina...
- NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 20 Nov 2024 In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds.
- Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation NASA · 20 Nov 2024 A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction...
- NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode NASA · 20 Nov 2024 After two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great scientific strides in the...
- Gateway Tops Off NASA · 20 Nov 2024 Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element is now equipped with its xenon and liquid fuel tanks.
- Fly around Ares Vallis on Mars ESA · 20 Nov 2024 Explore the immense power of water as ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a flight over curving channels, streamlined islands and muddled ‘chaotic terrain’ on Mars, soaking up rover landing sites along the way.
- The case for a continuous human presence in space SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy recently revealed that NASA is reconsidering its commitment to continuous human presence in low Earth orbit (LEO) after the International Space Station (ISS), potentially opting
- Exolaunch to deploy satellites with new universal adapter in 2026 SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — German launch services provider Exolaunch will use its new Exotube adapter for six constellation launches starting in 2026. Exotube, on display at the Space Tech Expo Europe
- ESA Publishes Call for Reusable Rocket with 60-Tonne Payload Capacity European Spaceflight · 20 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has announced that it will commission a study to detail the development of a reusable rocket capable of delivering 60 tonnes to low Earth orbit. In a tender for open competition published on 20...
- New full Sun views show sunspots, fields and restless plasma ESA · 20 Nov 2024 Zoom into Solar Orbiter's four new Sun images, assembled from high-resolution observations by the spacecraft's PHI and EUI instruments made on 22 March 2023. The PHI images are the highest-resolution full views of the Su...
- ESA’s Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) programme ESA · 20 Nov 2024 At ESA, through the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme, we’re addressing solutions for when safety and security of communication services cannot be guaranteed by the terrestrial networks alone. Wit...
- Latitude signs multi-launch contract with Atmos Space Cargo SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 French launch vehicle startup Latitude has signed a multi-launch contract with Atmos Space Cargo, a company developing commercial reentry vehicles.
- About the Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer (OCKO) NASA · 20 Nov 2024 The overarching purpose of the OCKO is to cultivate and sustain a learning culture at Goddard in support of mission success. We have instituted various processes and programs for lessons learned and critical knowledge id...
- SEOPS buys Falcon 9 launch for GTO rideshare mission SpaceNews · 20 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — Smallsat launch integrator SEOPS has purchased a Falcon 9 launch for a dedicated rideshare mission to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). SEOPS announced at Space Tech Expo Europe
- Starship Completes Sixth Flight Test, Marks Progress Toward Full Reusability The Launch Pad · 20 Nov 2024 Starship Completes Sixth Flight Test, Marks Progress Toward Full Reusability
- No Catch This Time, But IFT-6 Advances Starship Development SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Nov 2024 SpaceX’s sixth Starship Integrated Flight Test, IFT-6, may not have thrilled everyone with another spectacular booster catch, but the hour-long mission demonstrated advancements in the vehicle’s performance that pushes i...
- Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches continue, Rocket Lab to launch two Electrons, Russia to fly to ISS NASASpaceflight · 20 Nov 2024 Following the sixth flight of SpaceX’s Starship on Tuesday, four additional orbital launches are planned worldwide. Rocket Lab will launch an experimental hypersonic testbed payload using a modified Electron from Wallops...
- Super Heavy-Starship launches on sixth test flight, skips tower catch Spaceflight Now · 20 Nov 2024 With President-elect Donald Trump and newly-minted efficiency czar Elon Musk looking on, SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket on its sixth test flight Tuesday, an up-and-down trip to space by a gargantuan Sup...
- SpaceX launches sixth Starship but aborts booster landing SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2024 SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle on its sixth test flight Nov. 19 but called off a planned landing of the Super Heavy booster back at the launch site.
- Kepler goes all in on optical communications SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2024 Kepler Communications is seeking permission to operate larger but significantly fewer satellites for its proposed data relay constellation, which would now use lasers instead of radio frequencies to connect low Earth orb...
- U.S. military constellation advances despite supply chain hurdles SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2024 The first launch of Tranche 1 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), originally scheduled for September 2024, is now anticipated in the March to April 2025 timeframe
- Europe’s IRIS² constellation faces challenges of timing, scaling and competition SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — Europe’s plan to launch a sovereign satellite communication constellation is moving ahead once more, but IRIS² faces challenges of timing, scale and feasibility in the face of
- SpaceX successfully launches sixth Starship test flight with no catch Teslarati · 19 Nov 2024 SpaceX successfully launched its sixth test flight of Starship on Tuesday from Starbase, Texas. There was no catch today, as SpaceX did...
- From Houston to the Moon: Johnson’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Tests Lunar Solar Technology NASA · 19 Nov 2024 Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three companies to develop such systems, aimed at providing a power source at the Moon’s S...
- SpaceX completes sixth Starship flight, splashes down both booster and spacecraft CNBC · 19 Nov 2024 SpaceX launched the sixth test flight of its Starship rocket on Tuesday, as the company looks to keep up momentum of the mammoth vehicle’s development.
- On This Day: Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon NASA · 19 Nov 2024 NASA astronaut Alan Bean steps off the lunar module ladder in this photo from Nov. 19, 1969, joining astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. on the Moon in the area called the Ocean of Storms. The two would then complete two spacew...