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- NASA Summer Camp Inspires Future Climate Leaders NASA · 6 Sep 2024 From July 15-19, 2024, the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub at the Georgia Institute of Technology collaborated with the University of Georgia (UGA) Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Le...
- Boeing Starliner returns to Earth empty, months later than planned CNBC · 6 Sep 2024 Boeing’s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June.
- CubeSats are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit NASA · 6 Sep 2024 Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. The CubeSats...
- Week in images: 02-06 September 2024 ESA · 6 Sep 2024 Week in images: 02-06 September 2024
- BepiColombo Completes Mercury Flyby on New Trajectory Space Scout · 6 Sep 2024 The joint European/Japanese BepiColombo mission completed its fourth encounter with Mercury on Wednesday, September 4th 2024. The flyby was the latest of many gravity assists the mission needs to decelerate itself into M...
- Czech Government Signs Agreement with Axiom for Astronaut Mission European Spaceflight · 6 Sep 2024 The Czech government has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space. The agreement will lay the groundwork for a future mission to space for Czech ESA reserve astronaut...
- OSAM-1 Partnership Opportunity: Request for Information NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA is exploring potential partnerships for alternate use cases for the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) flight hardware, test facilities, and experienced personnel. Through a Request for Infor...
- Detecting satellite orbit anomalies requires human intelligence SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2024 Identifying anomalous operations of satellites is more than a technical task. It must depend on human intelligence gathering and advance warning. Missile launch detection and characterization is a longstanding example
- Mars rover trials ESA · 6 Sep 2024 Rover trials in a quarry in the UK showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes.
- Rocket Report: Falcon 9 lifts its 7,000th Starlink; ABL cuts deep Ars Technica · 6 Sep 2024 "Branson was determined to be the first billionaire in space."
- Debris from DART impact could reach Earth ESA · 6 Sep 2024 In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debri...
- Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center NASA · 6 Sep 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709a located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirlin...
- First metal part 3D printed in space ESA · 6 Sep 2024 ESA’s Metal 3D Printer has produced the first metal part ever created in space.
- Earth from Space: Sentinel-2 captures Sentinel-2 ESA · 6 Sep 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this image over Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 September, just ahead of the Sentinel-2C launch.
- SpaceX launches third batch of satellites for NRO’s proliferated constellation SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2024 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 5 launched the NROL-113 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
- China’s secretive reusable spaceplane lands after 267 days in orbit SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — China’s experimental reusable spaceplane returned to Earth late Thursday, completing its third orbital mission. State media Xinhua issued a brief report on Sept. 5 (Eastern), confirming the spacecraft’s
- Persevering Through the Storm NASA · 6 Sep 2024 It’s dust-storm season on Mars! Over the past couple of weeks, as we ascended the Jezero Crater rim, our science team has monitored increasing dust in the atmosphere — typically highest around this time of the Martian ye...
- Blue Origin racing to meet tight launch window for first New Glenn mission SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2024 While preparations for the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket are accelerating, the company acknowledges there is “lots to do” to get the vehicle ready to meet a narrow launch window next month.
- SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on national security mission for the NRO Spaceflight Now · 6 Sep 2024 The flight will set a new record for orbital launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff of the NROL-113 mission happened at 8:20 p.m. PDT (11:20 p.m. EDT, 0320 UTC).
- Aerospacelab opens doors to first US satellite manufacturing facility SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 European small satellite maker Aerospacelab announced the opening of its first manufacturing facility in the United States Sept. 5 amid efforts to break into the lucrative U.S. government market.
- KBR’s latest acquisition boosts its classified space workforce amid growing military demand SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 The company just completed a $737 million of the defense and space support services contractor LinQuest
- Sols 4295-4296: A Martian Moon and Planet Earth NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024 Today’s two-sol plan contains the usual science blocks filled with contact science and remote science to observe and assess the geology surrounding us. However, the Mastcam t...
- NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor NASA · 5 Sep 2024 NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The...
- New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy NASA · 5 Sep 2024 From across the Atlantic Ocean and through the Gulf of Mexico, two ships converged, delivering key spacecraft and rocket components of NASA’s Artemis campaign to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Sept. 3,...
- Viasat secures $153 million U.S. Army contract to modernize ‘Blue Force Tracker’ network SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 The Blue Force Tracker is a military system that helps soldiers and commanders know where friendly forces are located on the battlefield in real-time
- New Galileo satellites operational after successful in-orbit testing ESA · 5 Sep 2024 The two new Galileo satellites launched in April have entered service, completing the second of three constellation planes. With every addition to the constellation, the precision, availability and robustness of the Gali...
- NASA reaffirms decision to cancel OSAM-1 SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 NASA is proceeding with plans to shut down a satellite servicing mission at the end of the month after rejecting a proposal to revise the mission to meet a 2026 launch date.
- BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby ESA · 5 Sep 2024 The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet’s gravity to steer itself on cou...
- NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline NASA · 5 Sep 2024 As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission success remain as top priorities for the teams. Mission managers will com...
- Join the Eclipsing Binary Patrol and Spot Rare Stellar Pairs! NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Eclipsing binaries are special pairs of stars that cross in front of one another as they orbit—stars that take turns blocking one another from our view. At Eclipsing Binary Patrol, the newest NASA-funded citizen science...
- Ames Wind Tunnel NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Construction of the Ames wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A later expansion created an additional 80- by 120-foot test section. A Navy blimp, which would have been based at Hangars 2 and 3 at Mof...
- Col. Michelle Idle, United States Space Force – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Col. Michelle Idle, Deputy Commander, Space Systems Command, United States Space Force.
- NASA to Support DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing Program NASA · 5 Sep 2024 NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites provid...
- NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Mars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the last 3 billion years, at least some water went deep underground, but what happened to the rest? Now, NASA’s...
- China to launch Mars sample return mission in 2028, will follow planetary protection guidelines SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — China is on course to launch its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission in 2028, according to the mission’s lead. Liu Jizhong, chief designer of Tianwen-3, provided an update
- Eclipses Create Atmospheric Gravity Waves, NASA Student Teams Confirm NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Student teams from three U.S. universities became the first to measure what scientists have long predicted: eclipses can generate ripples in Earth’s atmosphere called atmospheric gravity waves. The waves’ telltale signat...
- Canopy wins Air Force contracts to develop thermal protection systems SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Air Force awarded Canopy Aerospace two contracts with a combined value of $2.8 million to develop thermal protection systems (TPS). One contract focuses on Canopy’s
- NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data NASA · 5 Sep 2024 On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study infli...
- Senegal among new members of China’s ILRS moon base project SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — Senegal’s space agency signed an agreement on cooperation on the International Lunar Research Station Thursday, swelling the ranks of the China-led project. Maram Kaire, head of the Senegalese
- Artemis IV: Gateway Gadget Fuels Deep Space Dining NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Learn about the handy device NASA is developing to help astronauts rehydrate their meals aboard the Gateway Lunar Space Station during the ambitious Artemis IV mission.