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- Pentagon’s Arctic strategy emphasizes space and satellite capabilities SpaceNews · 22 Jul 2024 DoD's 2024 Arctic strategy recommends investments in space-based capabilities to enhance communications, intelligence gathering and monitoring activities.
- Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year! NASA · 22 Jul 2024 Since 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has launched 24 new projects to expand citizen science in professional research. This year, proposals are due by November 19, 2024, with optional Notices of...
- Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 returns to flight, China launches Earth observation satellites NASASpaceflight · 22 Jul 2024 The launch schedule in the past few weeks has been notably quieter than usual. Last week, a Chang Zheng 4B launched the latest set of Gaofen-11 high-resolution Earth observation satellites in the early hours of Friday, J...
- 25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary NASA · 22 Jul 2024 This montage contains 25 new images with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory that is being released to commemorate the telescope’s 25th anniversary in space, as described in our latest press release. Since its lau...
- Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On NASA · 22 Jul 2024 Main Takeaways: Background: NASA’s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network’s communications services and support of...
- Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander NASA · 22 Jul 2024 At the end of February 1998, Johnson Space Center Deputy Director James D. Wetherbee called Astronaut Eileen Collins to his office in Building 1. He told her she had been assigned to command STS-93 and went with her to s...
- Artemis II’s Core Stage Heads to Florida Space Scout · 22 Jul 2024 The second SLS core stage, or CS-2, is now aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge following its rollout from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, paving the way for the first flight of crew to the moon in over 50 years.
- Astroscale unlocks remaining space agency funds to de-orbit OneWeb satellite SpaceNews · 22 Jul 2024 Astroscale has received the remaining government funds needed for a 2026 demo mission to remove a defunct OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit.
- NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars NASA · 22 Jul 2024 NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Erin Anderson, Sergii Ia...
- HyImpulse Awarded £5M in UKSA Funding for SR75 Launch European Spaceflight · 22 Jul 2024 The UK Space Agency has awarded £5 million (5.94 million) in new funding to HyImpulse to launch its suborbital SR75 rocket from SaxaVord in Scotland. The launch was one of more than 20 national space projects that receiv...
- The Falcon 9 rocket may return to flight as soon as Tuesday night Ars Technica · 22 Jul 2024 SpaceX is waiting for a determination from the FAA.
- FIA 2024 – Day 1 ESA · 22 Jul 2024 The UK's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Farnborough International Airshow 2024.
- FIA 2024 - Day 1 ESA · 22 Jul 2024 The UK's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Farnborough International Airshow 2024.
- Senate appropriators say spending bill includes NASA increase SpaceNews · 22 Jul 2024 The leaders of a Senate appropriations subcommittee say they will increase NASA’s budget and protect the Artemis lunar exploration campaign in an upcoming spending bill even as another senator criticized a “wrongheaded”...
- Sentinel-2C arrives in French Guiana ESA · 22 Jul 2024 The Sentinel-2C satellite, the third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, has arrived at the European spaceport in French Guiana for liftoff on the final Vega rocket in September. Sentinel-2C, like its predecessors, will con...
- LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh NASA · 22 Jul 2024 NASA Aeronautics Returns to Oshkosh Sunday, July 21 at 8:30 p.m. EDT NASA will appear at Oshkosh with a full slate of interactive exhibits, informative activities, and fascinating people to meet. But if you can’t make it...
- Curiosity discovers pure sulfur rocks, continues to explore Mount Sharp on Mars NASASpaceflight · 21 Jul 2024 On May 30, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, currently exploring Gale Crater on the red planet, drove over a small rock on the Martian surface. The rock cracked open while driving over the rock, revealing its interior composi...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy July 21-27, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 21 Jul 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of July 21-27, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session
- Gaia Prevails Despite a No-Good-Dirty-Rotten Year European Spaceflight · 21 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft continues to collect data despite getting hit by a one-in-a-million meteoroid strike and an electronics-crippling solar storm. Gaia was launched in December 2013 and is now sta...
- South Korea’s new space agency outlines plans SpaceNews · 21 Jul 2024 South Korea’s new space agency, less than two months old, is laying out ambitious goals in spaceflight as part of its efforts to serve as a “control tower” for the county’s growing space presence.
- Nelson: Apollo 11 United the Country in 1969, Artemis Will Too SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Jul 2024 In marking today’s 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson expressed hope that the space program can unite the country again as it
- NASA SLS Core Stage headed to KSC for Artemis II NASASpaceflight · 20 Jul 2024 Prime contractor Boeing rolled out the second Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on July 16 from the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) and secured it to NASA’s Pegasus barge for transportation to the Kennedy Space Center...
- ESA stations support three Moon missions in 2024 ESA · 20 Jul 2024 Happy International Moon Day!
- ESA supports work on Apophis mission SpaceNews · 20 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency will allow a proposed mission to the asteroid Apophis to proceed to a next stage of development to keep it on schedule even though it is not yet fully funded.
- ESA Gets Go Ahead to Begin Work on Apophis Mission SpacePolicyOnline.com · 19 Jul 2024 To the delight of planetary defense experts, ESA is beginning work on a probe to visit the asteroid Apophis before it reaches Earth in 2029. Apophis will not impact Earth,
- France funds small satellite capture and inspection mission SpaceNews · 19 Jul 2024 France has awarded a Thales Alenia Space-led group a contract to capture and inspect a small satellite in a demonstration mission slated toward the end of the decade.
- NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024 NASA · 19 Jul 2024 Each summer, aviation enthusiasts and experts from around the planet – including NASA’s aeronautical innovators – descend into a regional airport near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to attend the Experimental Aviation Association’s...
- Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews NASA · 19 Jul 2024 Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s next steps on the Moon. Here is your first look at some of the key moments from the upcoming series! Scrol...
- I am Artemis: John Campbell NASA · 19 Jul 2024 How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive 212-foot-long core stage across the country? You do it with a 300-foot-long barge. However, NASA’s Pegasus barge isn’t just any barge. It’s a vessel with...
- NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter NASA · 19 Jul 2024 During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere. It provides a detailed view of chaotic clouds and cyclonic storm...
- SpaceX seeks permission to relaunch Falcon 9 during FAA investigation Teslarati · 19 Jul 2024 SpaceX is seeking permission to relaunch its Falcon 9 rocket during the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigation into a mishap that occurred...
- Explorers on the Moon: Apollo 11 Landing NASA · 19 Jul 2024 On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in the lunar module “Eagle.” Afterward, Aldrin posed for this photo, taken by Armstrong, beside the United States flag. The Apollo 11 mission...
- NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation NASA · 19 Jul 2024 Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and tha...
- ESA Space Environment Report 2024 ESA · 19 Jul 2024 Space Debris
- NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 19 Jul 2024 Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days.
- NASA Awards Launch Excitement for STEM Learning Nationwide NASA · 19 Jul 2024 NASA awards inspire the next generation of explorers by helping community institutions like museums, science centers, libraries, and other informal education institutions and their partners bring science, technology,
- Week in images: 15-19 July 2024 ESA · 19 Jul 2024 Week in images: 15-19 July 2024
- NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-9 Mission to Space Station NASA · 19 Jul 2024 NASA will host a pair of news conferences Friday, July 26, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. NASA will host a mission overv...
- ESA Explores Crewed Mission Capabilities for Ariane 6 Rocket European Spaceflight · 19 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded Arianespace a contract to explore potential options for enabling crewed missions to be launched aboard the Ariane 6 rocket. In an interview with SpaceNews, ESA director of space tran...
- How AI improves operations on NOAA GOES-R weather and environmental satellites SpaceNews · 19 Jul 2024 How NOAA's GOES-R weather and climate monitoring satellites are using new AI to monitor spacecraft operations.