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- Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all Ars Technica · 8 Nov 2024 Saddle up, space cowboys. It may get bumpy for a while.
- Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers NASA · 8 Nov 2024 Engineering is a huge field with endless applications. From aerospace to ergonomics, engineers play an important role in designing, building, and testing technologies all around us. We asked three engineers at NASA’s Ame...
- I Am Artemis: Joe Vermette NASA · 8 Nov 2024 While some stand on the sidelines and witness history, others are destined to play a part in it. And then there are those who document it, bringing the people, the action, the images, the words, and the personalities to...
- Powerful New US-Indian Satellite Will Track Earth’s Changing Surface Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 8 Nov 2024 Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to infrastructure.
- Powerful New US-Indian Satellite Will Track Earth’s Changing Surface NASA · 8 Nov 2024 Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to infrastructure. We don’t always notice it, but much of Earth’s surface is in constant motio...
- NASA Kennedy’s Applied Chemistry Lab Achieves Agency First NASA · 8 Nov 2024 NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has a long record of achievements in sustainability and recently added another to the list when the spaceport’s Applied Chemistry Lab became the first in the agency to be certified...
- Week in images: 04-08 November 2024 ESA · 8 Nov 2024 Week in images: 04-08 November 2024
- 40 Years Ago: STS-51A – “The Ace Repo Company” NASA · 8 Nov 2024 Successfully deployed from the space shuttle Challenger during the February 1984 STS-41B mission, the Westar 6 and Palapa B2 communications satellites ended up in incorrect orbits due to failures of their upper stage roc...
- Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights NASA · 8 Nov 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impre...
- Vast signs agreement with Czech government SpaceNews · 8 Nov 2024 Commercial space station developer Vast Space has signed an agreement with the government of the Czech Republic that could allow a Czech astronaut fly on a future mission by the company.
- Sierra Space expands spaceplane fleet with in-house mission control SpaceNews · 8 Nov 2024 LOUISVILLE, Colorado — The long-awaited inaugural cargo flight of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has been delayed to no earlier than May 2025, pushing back a launch previously expected this
- BlackSky buys Thales Alenia’s stake in LeoStella joint venture SpaceNews · 8 Nov 2024 BlackSky has taken full ownership of smallsat manufacturer LeoStella, giving the remote sensing company greater control over the production of its next generation of imaging satellites.
- Czechia Partners With VAST for Possible Private Astronaut Mission European Spaceflight · 8 Nov 2024 The Czech Ministry of Transport has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US-based private space station company Vast to explore a potential private astronaut mission. During the most recent round of the European...
- Earth from Space: Autumn foliage across Europe ESA · 8 Nov 2024 This compilation of images, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, showcases the characteristic hues of autumn in different European countries.
- Hera burns towards Mars ESA · 8 Nov 2024 ESA’s Hera mission has completed the first critical manoeuvre on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since launch on 7 October.
- NASA defends selection of astrophysics probe mission proposals SpaceNews · 8 Nov 2024 NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.
- SpaceX targets Starship Flight 6 launch on November 18 Spaceflight Now · 8 Nov 2024 This will be the fastest turnaround for the Starship program as SpaceX works towards what needs to become a weekly launch cadence for NASA's Artemis program. Liftoff is set for no earlier than 4 p.m. CST (5 p.m. EST, 220...
- Oral History with Stephen G. Jurczyk, 1962 – 2023 NASA · 7 Nov 2024 Steve Jurczyk’s NASA career began in 1988 at Langley Research Center as an engineer in the Electronic Systems Branch. During his time at Langley, he served in other roles, including director of engineering and director o...
- Viasat seeking Telesat LEO capacity as Starlink competition mounts SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 Geostationary operator Viasat is in advanced talks to buy broadband capacity from Telesat’s future low Earth orbit satellites as competition from Starlink is set to intensify in the incoming Trump Administration.
- Oral History with Mary L. Cleave, 1947 – 2023 NASA · 7 Nov 2024 A veteran of two space flights, Dr. Cleave served as a mission specialist on STS-61B and STS-30. She went on to join NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and worked in the Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes as the Proje...
- The Cast and Crew of “Ain’t Too Proud” Visit NASA Langley NASA · 7 Nov 2024 Get Ready! Members of the cast and crew of the Broadway national touring production of “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations,” visited NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on Nov. 6, whe...
- NASA Shares Space Food Insight with Commercial Food Industry NASA · 7 Nov 2024 NASA recently welcomed more than 50 commercial food and commercial space companies to learn about the evolving space food system supporting NASA missions, including unique requirements for spaceflight, menu development,...
- Oral History with Jon A. McBride, 1943 – 2024 NASA · 7 Nov 2024 Selected as an astronaut in 1978, Jon A. McBride served as the pilot for STS 41-G, launched October 5, 1984, the first shuttle mission to carry a full crew of seven. His other NASA assignments included lead chase pilot f...
- Space export reforms to march forward amid transition to new administration SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 New export control rules seek to strike a balance between the need to boost U.S. industry's global competitiveness and the need to protect sensitive technologies
- Boeing finishing expansion of NASA SLS Core Stage production facilities at KSC NASASpaceflight · 7 Nov 2024 NASA and Space Launch System core stage prime contractor Boeing are working to finish activating new production facilities at the Kennedy Space Center, to complete and deliver the next two units by the end of 2026. After...
- Earth Below NASA · 7 Nov 2024 Earth’s city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow of Earth’s atmosphere is also visible on the horizon. Since the station became operational in...
- NASA to Transform In-Space Manufacturing with Laser Beam Welding Collaboration NASA · 7 Nov 2024 By Wayne Smith As NASA plans for humans to return to the Moon and eventually explore Mars, a laser beam welding collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and The Ohio State Univers...
- Student-Built Capsules Endure Heat of Re-entry for NASA Science NASA · 7 Nov 2024 In July 2024, five student-built capsules endured the scorching heat of re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere as part of the second Kentucky Re-Entry Probe Experiment (KREPE-2). Scientists are now analyzing the data from t...
- Snow returns to Mount Fuji ESA · 7 Nov 2024 Snow returns to Mount Fuji
- NASA-Funded Study Examines Tidal Effects on Planet and Moon Interiors NASA · 7 Nov 2024 NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will help interpret data from missions like NASA’s Europa Clipper.
- Meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo 2024 ESA · 7 Nov 2024 Space startups and SMEs can meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo, a space technology trade fair and conference in Bremen, Germany from 19–21 November.
- Proba-3 will constantly measure Sun’s energy output ESA · 7 Nov 2024 Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft observe the Sun’s faint surrounding atmosphere, the disk-bearing Occulter space...
- Attention Students: NASA Launches Power Systems Student Essay Contest NASA · 7 Nov 2024 NASA’s fourth annual Power to Explore Student Challenge kicked off November 7, 2024. The science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) writing challenge invites kindergarten through 12th grade students in the...
- Bind Russia to a new arms control treaty to ban nuclear weapons in space SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 Imagine strolling down the streets on a peaceful night in Honolulu and breathing in the fresh salt sea air. Feel the tiny detonation of air pressure as an orange glow
- NASA MSR review continues despite committee leadership change SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 NASA says it still expects to make a recommendation on a new architecture for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program by the end of the year despite a change in leadership of a key review committee.
- Former Intelsat executive joins Lynk Global as CEO SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 Ramu Potarazu, a former executive at geostationary operator Intelsat, has taken the helm of Lynk Global in the direct-to-smartphone satellite venture’s latest leadership shake-up as it seeks funds to grow its constellati...
- ESA Shares Rare Update on Themis Reusable Booster Demonstrator European Spaceflight · 7 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has provided a rare update on the progress of its Themis reusable booster demonstrator project. Themis was initially a CNES project that was first announced in early 2018. In November 2019, duri...
- Virgin Galactic seeks to raise money to accelerate growth of spaceplane fleet SpaceNews · 7 Nov 2024 Virgin Galactic is proposing to raise $300 million in additional capital to accelerate production of suborbital spaceplanes and a mothership aircraft the company says can fuel its long-term growth.
- SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from California with 20 Starlink satellites Spaceflight Now · 7 Nov 2024 SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from California on Friday. Liftoff from pad 4E occurred Friday at 10:14 p.m. PST (1:14 a.m. EST, 0614 UTC on Saturday).
- What Will A Second Trump Term Mean for Space Policy? SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Nov 2024 Last night’s election of Donald Trump to return to the White House four years after he left office could portend significant changes in U.S. space activities. Or not. One day...