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- What’s Up: October 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA · 2 Oct 2024 A new comet is passing through the inner solar system! Time will tell if it’s the brightest of the year, once it appears in twilight after about Oct. 14.
- NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets NASA · 2 Oct 2024 Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sa...
- NASA’s Webb Reveals Unusual Jets of Volatile Gas from Icy Centaur 29P NASA · 2 Oct 2024 Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: distant objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. NASA’s James W...
- No borders in the final frontier SpaceNews · 2 Oct 2024 Gazing at the night sky is one of the most essential human experiences. But when we consider the state of the modern space industry, a sense of irony creeps in.
- Companies seek more opportunities to send private astronaut missions to ISS SpaceNews · 2 Oct 2024 Companies developing commercial space stations want NASA to offer more opportunities to fly precursor missions to the International Space Station to help them gain experience and stimulate customer interest.
- Uplifting news! ESA crowns new deep space antenna in Australia ESA · 2 Oct 2024 This September saw the completion of a critical milestone for the construction of ESA's new deep space communication antenna in New Norcia, Australia: the lifting of the 122-tonne reflector dish.
- €2.4M in ESA Funding to Boost SpaceForest Rocket Development European Spaceflight · 2 Oct 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded €2.4 million in co-funding to Poland’s SpaceForest for further development of its Perun rocket. ESA awarded the funding as part of the agency’s Boost! initiative. Adopted by member s...
- Yahsat and Bayanat forge AI-powered space technology champion SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 Emirati satellite operator Yahsat and geospatial artificial intelligence provider Bayanat completed their merger Oct. 1, forming a company called Space42 valued at about $3 billion on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
- NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 1 Oct 2024 The mission has been working to postpone the shut-off as long as possible. Four other instruments aboard the interstellar spacecraft continue to operate.
- DoD seeks innovations in small-satellite propulsion SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 The Defense Innovation Unit issued a solicitation for proposals on electrospray thrusters
- Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic ‘Time Machines’ NASA · 1 Oct 2024 To shape NASA’s path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system. Name: Dr. Gioia RauTitle: AstrophysicistOrganization: Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Astrophy...
- EchoStar plots direct-to-device satellite push after shedding Dish and debt SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 EchoStar plans to aggressively expand its satellite and terrestrial mobile broadband services after shedding debt and its video distribution business.
- U.S. faces stiff competition from China in satellite remote sensing SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 Report: The U.S. continues to excel in radar imaging but must keep pace with China’s rapid advances in electro-optical imaging
- Impulse Space raises $150 million SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 Impulse Space has raised $150 million to advance develop of two lines of high-energy orbital transfer vehicles focused on “disrupting space transportation.”
- Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA NASA · 1 Oct 2024 Oct. 1, 2024 Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the agency across multiple programs, including 157 days in space and three spa...
- Boosting SpaceForest sounding rocket ESA · 1 Oct 2024 SpaceForest SF1000 engine test
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Concludes Space Station Scientific Mission NASA · 1 Oct 2024 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are returning to Earth after months aboard the International Space Station conducting scientific experiment...
- Dust sparked biggest phytoplankton bloom in decades ESA · 1 Oct 2024 New research reveals that dust carried by the wind from southern Africa towards Madagascar triggered the largest phytoplankton bloom in two decades – and, unusually, this occurred at a time of year when such blooms are r...
- Spacecraft delivery startup founded by former SpaceX rocket guru raises $150 million, led by Founders Fund CNBC · 1 Oct 2024 Los Angeles-based space startup Impulse, which is led by renowned rocket specialist Tom Mueller, has raised $150 million in a new fundraising round led by venture capital firm Founders Fund.
- NASA’s Instruments Capture Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt NASA · 1 Oct 2024 From Aug. 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped p...
- Ground Game: Raytheon’s Mission Operations Centers Improve Forecasting for Civilian Space Missions SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 Building 30 at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is hallowed ground to people who are part of the civil space industry. At approximately 3:18 p.m. on July 20,
- NASA removes technical details from Janus RFI SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 After a four-week hiatus, NASA has republished a document seeking ideas for how to repurpose a pair of smallsats for an asteroid mission, removing many technical details about those spacecraft in the process.
- The politically incorrect guide to saving NASA’s floundering Artemis Program Ars Technica · 1 Oct 2024 To get somewhere, Artemis must avoid going nowhere.
- Momentus facing Nasdaq delisting SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 In-space transportation company Momentus is in danger of having its stock delisted from Nasdaq within days because of its low share price and other problems.
- October’s Night Sky Notes: Catch Andromeda Rising! NASA · 1 Oct 2024 If you’re thinking of a galaxy, the image in your head is probably the Andromeda Galaxy!
- ESA to Build Exercise Machine for Gateway Space Station European Spaceflight · 1 Oct 2024 The European Space Agency has published a call for the development of a multi-use exercise machine that will be used by astronauts visiting the lunar Gateway space station. ESA is contributing several elements of the Gat...
- Apex to provide satellite buses for Anduril’s defense-oriented space missions SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024 Apex’s inaugural mission in March carried Anduril’s edge data processing payload
- NOAA Kicks Off TraCSS Space Situational Awareness System SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Oct 2024 NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce began beta testing its Tracking Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS, today to provide space situational awareness data to commercial satellite operators. At the moment...
- NASA Continues Advancing STEM for Students Through New Partnership NASA · 30 Sep 2024 During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Monday, the agency and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation signed a Space Act Agreement to collaborate and expand STEM opportunities for Latino K-12 and university students...
- Gogo buys rival to tackle Starlink aviation expansion SpaceNews · 30 Sep 2024 Gogo is acquiring inflight connectivity rival Satcom Direct to counter rising competition from SpaceX’s Starlink in the market for providing Wi-Fi to business jets.
- Launch Roundup: Vulcan takes second flight; Hera mission set to study asteroid NASASpaceflight · 30 Sep 2024 The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched its Vulcan Centaur rocket for the second time, this week. The mission saw Vulcan carry an inert payload to orbit alongside some experiments and demonstrations and will comple...
- NASA Invites Media to Preview its Museum Earth Information Center NASA · 30 Sep 2024 Media is invited to preview and interview NASA leadership ahead of the opening of the Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History at 10 a.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 7. The 2,000-square-foot e...
- NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition NASA · 30 Sep 2024 By Savannah Bullard A new NASA competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, is open and offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions. As NASA continues efforts toward long-d...
- Donald Trump works with Elon Musk to bring Starlink to hurricane victims Teslarati · 30 Sep 2024 Former President Donald Trump says he coordinated with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to get Starlink internet to areas that were...
- NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to Discuss Science, Station Mission NASA · 30 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share details of her recent six-month mission aboard the International Space Station in a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston....
- SpaceX arrives to save astronauts stranded by Boeing on ISS Teslarati · 30 Sep 2024 SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday to save two astronauts stranded in Space. Astronauts...
- Mariachi and Moonshots: Melissa Moreno Orchestrates Gateway Communications NASA · 30 Sep 2024 As a radio frequency wireless engineer in NASA’s Johnson Space Center Avionic Systems Division in Houston, Melissa Moreno makes an impact in space exploration while proudly sharing her cultural heritage in the NASA commu...
- Station Science Top News: Sept. 27, 2024 NASA · 30 Sep 2024 Researchers found that long-duration spaceflight affected the mechanical properties of eye tissues, including reducing the stiffness of tissue around the eyeball. A better understanding of these changes could help resear...
- Aerospace Medicine Clerkship NASA · 30 Sep 2024 The application window for the April 2025 session is open. The next available session will convene Monday, March 31- Friday, April 25. Applications for the April 2025 session will close on Monday, December 2, 2024 at 115...
- Hera asteroid mission ESA · 30 Sep 2024 Hera asteroid mission