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- Mapping the Red Planet With the Power of Open Science Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 27 Jun 2024 Combining images from orbit with images from the surface, a JPL-developed tool allows researchers to zoom in to see individual boulders and zoom out to see all of Mars.
- NASA, Boeing to Provide Commercial Crew, Space Station Update NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Leadership from NASA’s International Space Station and Commercial Crew Programs, as well as Boeing, will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, June 28. NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Starliner...
- Russian spy satellite reportedly continues suspicious maneuvers SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 Slingshot Aerospace predicts Russia’s Luch 2 is now approaching an Intelsat communications satellite
- Investing in Space: Why ULA needs to launch its second Vulcan rocket as soon as possible CNBC · 27 Jun 2024 It’s easy to lose the forest for the trees when reporting on the day-to-day of the space industry. I often find myself needing to step back and walk through why an event or announcement matters, because often what a spac...
- Russian satellite breaks up, creating debris in low Earth orbit SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 A Russian satellite in low Earth orbit broke up June 26, creating more than 100 pieces of trackable debris and briefly causing the International Space Station crew to take shelter.
- NASA Awards Contract for Cargo Mission Support NASA · 27 Jun 2024 NASA has awarded a contract to Leidos, Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide mission support for the agency’s International Space Station Program, Artemis campaign, and more. The Cargo Mission Contract 4 has a total poten...
- Station Nation: Meet Katie Burlingame, ETHOS Flight Controller and Instructor in the Flight Operations Directorate NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Katie Burlingame is an ETHOS (Environmental and Thermal Operating Systems) flight controller and instructor in the Flight Operations Directorate supporting the International Space Station. Burlingame trains astronauts an...
- NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies NASA · 27 Jun 2024 A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger com...
- Viasat to supply satellite terminals for Spain’s maritime surveillance aircraft SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 The broadband terminals will communicate with commercial satellite networks and with Spain’s next-generation military constellation
- NASA Kennedy Team Recognized During White House Sustainability Awards NASA · 27 Jun 2024 A team of seven NASA Kennedy employees was recognized by the White House for charging ahead with the expansion of the agency’s sustainable electric vehicle (EV) fleet at Kennedy Space Center. They did so at minimal cost...
- Starship preparations point to possible tower catch attempt on Flight 5 NASASpaceflight · 27 Jun 2024 The Starship program is testing with a possible tower catch in mind for the next flight of the system, a goal that seems more within reach after Flight 4’s successful ocean soft landing. In addition to a booster test sec...
- Langley Celebrates Pride Month: Derek Bramble NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Derek Bramble has served in a variety of mission and program support roles over his 14-year career at NASA Langley. He currently serves as an HR Business Partner in LaRC’s Human Capital Office, where he works closely wit...
- Beta Project Kuiper broadband services pushed to early 2025 SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 Initial Project Kuiper broadband services have slipped into 2025, Amazon said June 27 amid plans to launch its first batch of production satellites on an Atlas V rocket in the last three months of this year.
- Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop. The Mars 2020 mission is aimed at exploring the geology of Jezero Crater and seeking signs of...
- Brig. Gen. Kristin L. Panzenhagen, United States Space Force – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Brig. Gen. Kristin L. Panzenhagen, United States Space Force.
- NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface. Researchers at N...
- NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station Ars Technica · 27 Jun 2024 The space agency did consider alternatives to splashing the station.
- NASA Celebrates 10 Years of Human Spaceflight’s NExT Pioneers NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for an anniversary...
- Liftoff! Redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center Engages Kids, Families NASA · 27 Jun 2024 The San Francisco Bay Area has a new and interactive way to learn more about the innovative work of NASA’s Ames Research Center. A newly redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, Ca...
- NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits NASA · 27 Jun 2024 The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark...
- NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 27 Jun 2024 The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth.
- NASA eClips Engages Families at 2024 STEM Community Day NASA · 27 Jun 2024 On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public...
- Firefly to launch Alpha rockets from Esrange in Sweden SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 Firefly Aerospace has entered an agreement to launch its Alpha rocket from the Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden.
- Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere NASA · 27 Jun 2024 Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above...
- US and India Advance Cooperation on Space and Technology Space Scout · 27 Jun 2024 In a White House press release on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, the governments of both the United States and India laid out a strategic roadmap for future collaboration in space - a goal that has long captivated the imaginati...
- Space Team Europe for Ariane 6: Sergi Inglada ESA · 27 Jun 2024 They say it takes a village to raise a child. To launch a rocket, we have the combined expertise and passion of Space Team Europe. Sergi Inglada, Control Bench Technical Manager for GTD, is one of many making the first A...
- Firefly Will Launch its Alpha Rocket From Esrange in Sweden European Spaceflight · 27 Jun 2024 Firefly Aerospace has signed a collaborative agreement with the Swedish Space Corporation to launch its Alpha rocket from Esrange Space Centre in Sweden. The Esrange Space Centre was built in the 1960s and has hosted hun...
- Proba-3 tries formation flying on the ground ESA · 27 Jun 2024 The two Proba-3 satellites were set facing each other across a cleanroom as cameras, LEDs, a laser and shadow sensors were activated in turn, testing the systems that will let the pair sense their precise positions relat...
- PLD Space Offers Free Flights Aboard First Two Miura 5 Flights European Spaceflight · 27 Jun 2024 Spanish rocket builder PLD Space has launched a new programme to offer space aboard the first two flights of its Miura 5 rocket for free. PLD Space successfully launched its suborbital Miura 1 rocket for the first time i...
- Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC ESA · 27 Jun 2024 ESA’s Hera mission is due to launch in October this year on a quest to survey the Didymos binary asteroid system and study the results of the first-ever test of asteroid deflection.
- Hydrosat to launch its first thermal infrared sensor SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – Washington-based startup Hydrosat is preparing to send its first thermal-infrared instrument into orbit July 8 on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare flight. The instrument, designed to measure water stress
- China to launch first satellites for megaconstellation in August SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 The first launch for China’s G60 Starlink megaconstellation of over 12,000 satellites is set for early August.
- House spending bill cuts NASA science and education programs SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 A House spending bill for fiscal year 2025 would cut funding from the administration’s request for science and education programs at NASA.
- Proba-2’s glimpse of home ESA · 27 Jun 2024 Proba-2’s glimpse of home
- A first: EarthCARE reveals inner secrets of clouds ESA · 27 Jun 2024 Less than a month after it was launched, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has returned the first image from one of its instruments – an image that, for the first time from space, unveils the internal structure and dynamics of c...
- NASA Picks SpaceX To Build ISS Deorbit Vehicle SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Jun 2024 NASA just awarded a contract to SpaceX to build a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its lifetime, currently planned for 2030. NASA Administrator Bill
- SpaceX launches 350th Falcon 9 rocket on a Starlink flight from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 27 Jun 2024 The mission will push the Falcon 9 first stage booster, B1062, into the flight leader position with this 22nd flight. Liftoff of the Starlink 10-3 mission is set for 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 UTC).
- Planet lays off 17% of workforce SpaceNews · 27 Jun 2024 Earth observation company Planet announced June 26 it is laying off about 180 employees, or 17% of its workforce, in an effort to reduce costs.
- NASA awards SpaceX contract for space station deorbit vehicle SpaceNews · 26 Jun 2024 NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will be used to perform the final phases of the deorbiting of the International Space Station around the end of the decade.
- SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station CNBC · 26 Jun 2024 NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction later this decade, the agency announced Wednesday.