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- NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA NASA · 23 Aug 2024 As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially han...
- NASA Astronauts Wilmore, Williams’ Space Station Science Highlights NASA · 23 Aug 2024 Since the start of International Space Station operations more than two decades ago, crews have lived and worked in microgravity to conduct an array of research that benefits life on Earth and future space exploration mi...
- Week in images: 19-23 August 2024 ESA · 23 Aug 2024 Week in images: 19-23 August 2024
- Preguntas frecuentes: Estado del retorno de la prueba de vuelo tripulado Boeing de la NASA NASA · 23 Aug 2024 Read the article in English here. Los astronautas de la NASA Butch Wilmore y Suni Williams llegaron al laboratorio orbital el 6 de junio a bordo de la nave Boeing Starliner tras despegar el 5 de junio del Complejo de Lan...
- Cards on the table: Are Butch and Suni coming home on Starliner or Crew Dragon? Ars Technica · 23 Aug 2024 On the eve of a fateful decision, we're answering some frequently asked questions.
- Hubble Reaches a Lonely Light in the Dark NASA · 23 Aug 2024 A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Known as the Tucana Dwarf for lying in the constellation Tucana, this dwarf galaxy contains a l...
- The case for an international space artifacts museum SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2024 What do we do with the International Space Station when the facility is retired? That seems to be the question hovering over us right now. NASA’s report on the rationale
- First views from Juice’s science camera ESA · 23 Aug 2024 Since ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew by the Moon and Earth earlier this week, we’ve seen images from its monitoring cameras and we’ve seen images from its navigation camera. Today we reveal the first image...
- Sentinel-2C sealed in the Vega rocket fairing ESA · 23 Aug 2024 As preparations continue to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite on 4 September, the team at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was sealed from view wit...
- Ariane 6 blueprint ESA · 23 Aug 2024 Ariane 6 blueprint
- Rocket Report: A ULA sale tidbit; Polaris Dawn mission is on deck Ars Technica · 23 Aug 2024 "The idea is to learn as much as we possibly can about this suit."
- Norway’s Andøya Spaceport Receives Launch Site Operator License European Spaceflight · 23 Aug 2024 The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries has granted a launch site operator license to Andøya Spaceport. The new launch facility will host the inaugural flight of the Isar Aerospace Spectrum rocket. Andøy...
- Harris Vows Leadership in Space if Elected SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Aug 2024 In accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris vowed that the United States will lead the world into the future, including in space. Harris currently
- NASA adds three companies to launch services contract for smallsat missions SpaceNews · 23 Aug 2024 NASA added three companies to a contract for launching smallsat missions, including one publicly traded company that has had recent financial struggles.
- NASA Composite Manufacturing Initiative Gains Two New Members NASA · 23 Aug 2024 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Fives Machining Systems Inc. have joined 20 other organizations to support NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The project is addressing industry’s needs...
- Mynaric’s manufacturing woes threaten to delay production of U.S. military satellites SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 The U.S. Space Force's ambitious plans to deploy a vast network of low Earth orbit satellites could face delays due to production issues at Mynaric, a supplier of optical communications terminals
- RFA Identifies Turbopump as the Cause for RFA ONE Test Failure European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024 The results of a preliminary investigation into what caused an RFA ONE first stage to burst into flames have identified an oxygen fire in one of the turbopumps as the culprit. On 19 August, German launch provider Rocket...
- Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement NASA · 22 Aug 2024 In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served the world’s scientific community for decades as a platform under NASA’s Airborne Science Program before...
- Amazon expands Kennedy Space Center facility to accelerate satellite deployments SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 Amazon is investing $19.5 million to expand its satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to mitigate delays in deploying its 3,200-strong Project Kuiper broadband constellation.
- NASA’s EXCITE Mission Prepared for Scientific Balloon Flight NASA · 22 Aug 2024 Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space. EXCITE is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our sol...
- Norwegian spaceport receives government license SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 A Norwegian spaceport is a step closer to hosting the first orbital launch for Isar Aerospace after receiving a government license.
- NASA Selects Three New Venture-Class Launch Service Providers NASA · 22 Aug 2024 NASA has selected three additional companies to provide launch services for future agency missions through its VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. The companies awarded are: The VADR con...
- Into The Field With NASA: Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes NASA · 22 Aug 2024 To better understand Mars, NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team headed deep into the backcountry of Katmai National Park.
- Leadership to Discuss NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test NASA · 22 Aug 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. About an hour later, NASA will host a live news conference...
- Sunrise Begins NASA · 22 Aug 2024 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured the start of this orbital sunrise on Aug. 15, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station. Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images...
- Juice’s navigation camera gets first taste of space ESA · 22 Aug 2024 During this week’s lunar-Earth flyby, the Navigation Camera (NavCam) of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) was tested out in space for the first time.
- NASA Moves Artemis II Rocket Adapter, Prepares for Shipment NASA · 22 Aug 2024 NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday...
- China launches ChinaSat-4A communications satellite SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 HELSINKI — China launched a new communications satellite towards the geostationary belt Thursday, but revealed very little information about the spacecraft. A Long March 7A lifted off from Wenchang Satellite
- Scout Space, Dawn Aerospace partner for spaceplane surveillance demonstration SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 The companies will attempt to image objects in very low Earth orbit from a suborbital spaceplane
- Suzi McBride, Iridium – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Suzi McBride, Chief Operating Officer, Iridium Communications Inc.
- Looking Back on Looking Up: The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse NASA · 22 Aug 2024 Introduction First as a bite, then a half Moon, until crescent-shaped shadows dance through the leaves and the temperature begins to drop – a total solar eclipse can be felt growing in the atmosphere. As the sky darkens...
- Europe Delivers Orion Service Module for Artemis III Mission European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024 The third European Service Module, which will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft, has left Germany and is on its way to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The service module will power the first crewed mission to the surfac...
- Hubble Finds Structure in an Unstructured Galaxy NASA · 22 Aug 2024 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away. The relatively open distribution of stars in this diminutive galaxy allows light from di...
- NASA Identifies Lunar Cargo and Mobility Gaps Space Scout · 22 Aug 2024 The development of NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture is a continuous process, one which is always seeking to strengthen our approach to sending humans to Mars and beyond. In June, NASA released a pair of white papers that...
- China to launch “Earth 2.0” exoplanet observatory in 2028 SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 HELSINKI — China plans to launch an exoplanet observatory in 2028 with the aim of making a breakthrough detection of a potential second Earth. Around 5,000 exoplanets have been found
- SLS contract extension hints at additional Artemis delays SpaceNews · 22 Aug 2024 NASA plans to extend the contract for one element of the current version of the Space Launch System with options that suggest the agency is protecting against multi-year delays in future missions.
- Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific ESA · 22 Aug 2024 On 8 September 2024, the first of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.
- Europe delivers for Artemis III ESA · 22 Aug 2024 The European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis III mission to the Moon is soon on its way to the United States.
- ESA’s Icy Moons Explorer Racks Up Two World Firsts European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024 The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft has completed the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby and the first-ever double gravity assist manoeuvre. Following its close approach to Earth, the spacecraft b...
- The Marshall Star for August 21, 2024 NASA · 21 Aug 2024 Hundreds Honored at Marshall, NASA Awards Ceremony NASA Chief Financial Officer Margaret Vo Schaus speaks to audience members and honorees Aug. 15 during the 2023 Agency/Center Honor Awards at NASA’s Marshall Space Fligh...