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- Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesota NASA · 13 Sep 2024 An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021. Astronauts aboard the orbital lab take images usin...
- NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards NASA · 13 Sep 2024 Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation...
- Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypoint NASA · 13 Sep 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 The rover is on its way from the Tungsten Hills site to the next priority site for Gediz Vallis channel exploration, in which we plan to get in close enough for arm science...
- Telesat secures $1.9 billion government funding for Lightspeed SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2024 Telesat has secured government funds covering more than half the $3.5 billion cost of its proposed low Earth orbit Lightspeed broadband constellation, the Canadian geostationary operator announced Sept. 13.
- NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge NASA · 13 Sep 2024 The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data...
- NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training NASA · 13 Sep 2024 At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits.
- Week in images: 09-13 September 2024 ESA · 13 Sep 2024 Week in images: 09-13 September 2024
- The satellite industry cannot ignore the huge potential of D2D services SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2024 If you have been following the news on Direct to Device (D2D) services lately, you will have seen an increase in media buzz from D2D LEO-sat operators. Each claims to
- Growing pains in U.S. military’s satellite revolution SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2024 In the high-stakes arena of military space technology, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency is attempting to rewrite the rulebook with a mesh network of interconnected satellites in low-Earth
- NASA Taps Finland’s ICEYE to Provide Earth Observation Data European Spaceflight · 13 Sep 2024 Finnish Earth observation data provider ICEYE has won a five-year contract with NASA to provide radar satellite imagery for Earth science and research purposes. ICEYE owns and operates the world’s largest constellation o...
- Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo ESA · 13 Sep 2024 See Mercury in a whole new light, through the ‘eyes’ of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft, as it sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024.
- United Airlines to offer free Wi-Fi using Starlink from Elon Musk’s SpaceX CNBC · 13 Sep 2024 United Airlines said Friday that it plans to offer inflight Wi-Fi for free using Starlink from Elon Musk’s SpaceX on its hundreds of jetliners, the biggest inflight internet deal yet for the satellite service provider.
- BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby: the movie ESA · 13 Sep 2024 Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024.
- Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory NASA · 13 Sep 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to stud...
- Earth from Space: Adriatic bloom ESA · 13 Sep 2024 This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures algal bloom swirls in the north Adriatic Sea, along the coast of Italy.
- SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast Spaceflight Now · 12 Sep 2024 The launch comes as the commercial astronaut mission, Polaris Dawn, is preparing for an on-orbit demonstration of the satellite internet service. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 6:45 p.m. PDT (9:45 p...
- First Commercial Spacewalk Enters History Books SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Sep 2024 Two private astronauts stepped outside their space capsule this morning in another first for SpaceX and the commercial space sector. Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis only spent a few minutes
- Firefly preparing new launch pads in Virginia, Sweden for Alpha rocket NASASpaceflight · 12 Sep 2024 Firefly Aerospace, the decade-old spaceflight company based in Cedar Park, Texas, is now working on an additional launch site for its operational Alpha small satellite launcher and upcoming Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) in...
- First non-government spacewalk goes off without a hitch for Polaris Dawn crew Spaceflight Now · 12 Sep 2024 In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the first privately-financed spacewalk in the his...
- Polaris Program Aims High with First Commercial Spacewalk Space Scout · 12 Sep 2024 On September 10, 2024, one of the farthest-reaching civilian missions in human history lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at
- U.S. defense program seeks next-generation space monitoring tools SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 The Space Security and Defense Program is doing market research on advanced space domain awareness technologies available in the 2030-2040 timeframe
- Second ispace lunar lander planned for launch in December SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 Japanese company ispace expects to launch its second lunar lander mission as soon as December, making it one of three companies planning missions to the moon by the end of the year.
- Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays NASA · 12 Sep 2024 On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is sc...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support sci...
- Ice-hunting Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 nearly ready for January 2025 launch SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 GOLDEN, Colorado — Finding exploitable water ice at the lunar south pole is high on the agenda of NASA’s Artemis program. If reservoirs of water ice exist in lunar cold
- Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution NASA · 12 Sep 2024 Efforts to 3D print engines produce significant savings in rocketry and beyond
- Ready at Kennedy ESA · 12 Sep 2024 Unboxing ESA's third European Service Module at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep...
- NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives NASA · 12 Sep 2024 NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April. The agen...
- NASA’s Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 12 Sep 2024 The telescope’s MIRI instrument, managed through launch by JPL, is helping provide new insights about the sparse outer regions of the Milky Way.
- Airbus Ventures launches $155 million fund focused on deep tech, including space CNBC · 12 Sep 2024 Airbus Ventures, one of the most prolific investors in space startups, has raised a $155 million fund that it plans to deploy across the burgeoning space sector, as well as the broader “deep tech” ecosystem.
- NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy NASA · 12 Sep 2024 Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away fro...
- Foust Forward | Auditing the auditors SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 On Aug. 27, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit of Mobile Launcher 2, the mobile launch platform the agency is building for the Block 1B version of
- Jacqueline Good, CEO, Magnestar – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Jacqueline Good, CEO, Magnestar.
- Two private astronauts took a spacewalk Thursday morning—yes, it was historic Ars Technica · 12 Sep 2024 "Today’s success represents a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry."
- SpaceX performs historic first spacewalk with Polaris Dawn crew CNBC · 12 Sep 2024 SpaceX pulled off its first spacewalk in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a historic first for a company.
- Polaris Dawn astronauts perform spacewalk SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 Astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission conducted the first spacewalk on a non-governmental mission Sept. 12, briefly emerging from their Crew Dragon spacecraft.
- AST SpaceMobile deploys first production direct-to-smartphone satellites SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 SpaceX successfully deployed the first five production satellites for AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-smartphone broadband constellation Sept. 11.
- Webb peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy ESA · 12 Sep 2024 Digel Cloud 2S
- FAA defends Starship licensing delays SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2024 A day after harsh criticism from Congress and industry, the FAA defended its approach to launch licensing and, specifically, its work with SpaceX.