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- NASA’s Van Allen Probe A to Re-Enter Atmosphere NASA · 9 Mar 2026 NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged par...
- SpaceX’s Enters a new era with Booster 19 rolling to Pad 2 NASASpaceflight · 9 Mar 2026 For the first time since Flight 11 on Oct 13, 2025, 147 days ago, SpaceX…
- About Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) Project NASA · 9 Mar 2026 The purpose of the Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project is to engage with industry and other government organizations to identify, select, and mature key airframe technologies, such as new wing designs, that have a...
- About Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities (FDC) Project NASA · 9 Mar 2026 The FDC project conducts complex integrated small-scale flight research to validate the benefits of new technologies. By modifying aircraft from FDC’s support fleet, the project enables aggressive, success-oriented fligh...
- What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8) NASA · 9 Mar 2026 This article is for students grades 5-8. What is Pi? Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the symbol π. But it’s way more than that! What Makes Pi Special? Pi is an irrational number. That means it goes on foreve...
- NASA Armstrong Director Brad Flick to Retire After 40 Years of Service NASA · 9 Mar 2026 On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research...
- Ariane 6 and Vega-C over Earth (artist impression) ESA · 9 Mar 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA to Share Artemis II Flight Readiness Review Update NASA · 9 Mar 2026 NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 12, to highlight progress toward the Artemis II crewed mission around the Moon. The media briefing will take place from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in...
- Flammability Testing Configuration and Approach of Barrier MaterialAssemblies Designed for Space Flight Applications NASA · 9 Mar 2026 The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space Flight Center...
- Webb Studies Cranium Nebula NASA · 9 Mar 2026 Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-...
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York NASA · 9 Mar 2026 Students in New York will hear from NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Stat...
- Sophie Adenot shares an inspiring message from the ISS for International Women’s Day ESA · 9 Mar 2026 [EN] “Believe in your dreams, believe in yourself, and believe in that little nothing, that εpsilon, that can change everything…”
- Avio Lands $65 Million Deal Days After Shareholders Approve New Bylaws European Spaceflight · 9 Mar 2026 Italian rocket builder Avio announced on 6 March that it had secured a $65 million contract from US-based Defense Systems and Solutions for the development, qualification, and initial production of solid rocket motors. T...
- GNSS resilience is an economic and security priority SpaceNews · 9 Mar 2026 Modern society has become profoundly reliant on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). These systems support aviation safety, emergency services, finance, communications, energy networks and an expanding array of au...
- Voyager Technologies invests in Max Space SpaceNews · 9 Mar 2026 Voyager Technologies is investing in Max Space to help accelerate a partnership between the two companies on developing lunar habitats.
- First Starship V3 launch slips SpaceNews · 9 Mar 2026 SpaceX is pushing back the first launch of the latest version of Starship even as NASA is asking it to accelerate work on a lunar lander version of the vehicle.
- From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry NASA · 9 Mar 2026 Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought...
- Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission SpaceNews · 9 Mar 2026 A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented orbiter mission to ice giant Neptune.
- Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport ESA · 9 Mar 2026 The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a Vega-C rocket between 8 April and 7 May.
- The radiation paradox: why solar maximum is the safest time to travel to Mars ESA · 9 Mar 2026 When packing your spacecraft for a return trip to Mars, it would be better to launch during a period of maximum solar activity.
- ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026 ESA · 9 Mar 2026 At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
- Firefly Alpha FLTA007 “Stairway to Seven” ready for another launch attempt NASASpaceflight · 9 Mar 2026 Firefly Aerospace is returning its Alpha launch vehicle to flight after a nearly 10-month stand…
- "She flies satellites. One day, I can too." ESA · 9 Mar 2026 At ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), teams work around the clock to fly spacecraft across the Solar System and monitor Earth from orbit. Among them are women leading spacecraft operations, managing teams and...
- Changing the Rules Mid-Race - How Artemis Lets Washington Redefine "Winning" at the Moon - Part 4 SpaceDaily · 9 Mar 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 In classic Washington style, the United States has found a way to keep 'winning' the new Moon race even as its flagship program slips, bloats and mutates. With the latest Artemis overhau...
- Apollo Cosplay on a 21st-Century Clock - Why Artemis Keeps Slipping Toward 2029 - Part 3 SpaceDaily · 9 Mar 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA's latest reboot of the Artemis Moon program comes with familiar language: 'back to basics,' 'muscle memory,' 'step-by-step,' and an explicit nod to the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo playboo...
- Hostage to the Moon - How Artemis Became Industrial Welfare in a Space Suit - Part 2 SpaceDaily · 9 Mar 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA says it has finally found the "back to basics" recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper...
- Course Correction or Controlled Crash? Inside NASA's Artemis Overhaul - Part 1 SpaceDaily · 9 Mar 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 NASA says it has finally found the 'back to basics' recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper...
- Lake Coatepeque NASA · 9 Mar 2026 Set amid El Salvador’s modern, active volcanic landscape, tranquil blue waters fill a caldera formed by ancient eruptions.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy March 8-14, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Mar 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of March 8-14, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this week.
- RFA plans first launch this summer SpaceNews · 8 Mar 2026 German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) says it is planning its first launch for this summer after delivering two of its stages to the launch site.
- Baikonur Launch Pad restored, clearing path for Progress MS-33 ISS Mission NASASpaceflight · 7 Mar 2026 Russia’s crucial launch infrastructure at Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31/6 has been fully repaired following a…
- Air Force lab awards BlackSky contract worth up to $99 million for large optical satellite payload SpaceNews · 7 Mar 2026 Program will test large segmented optical system for future surveillance satellites
- NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5 as new upper stage for the SLS rocket Spaceflight Now · 7 Mar 2026 The upper stage of United launch Alliance’s Vulcan rockets performed successfully across the first four flights of the rocket since 2024. The first launch of a Centaur 5 as part of a Space Launch System rocket would be o...
- NASA selects Centaur for new SLS upper stage SpaceNews · 6 Mar 2026 NASA has selected the Centaur upper stage currently used on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for future flights of the Space Launch System.
- Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead Ars Technica · 6 Mar 2026 The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
- NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Station Resupply Launch NASA · 6 Mar 2026 Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft will launch in April to the orbi...
- NASA’s Artemis ‘Course Correction’ Boosts Moonward Momentum: Key Details Still Maturing NASASpaceflight · 6 Mar 2026 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled sweeping changes to the Artemis program, aimed at restoring momentum,…
- NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun NASA · 6 Mar 2026 New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the motion of Dimorphos around its l...
- Eutelsat completes $5.8 billion refinancing plan SpaceNews · 6 Mar 2026 Eutelsat has completed the last step in a 5 billion euro ($5.8 billion) refinancing plan to refresh its OneWeb constellation and support Europe’s IRIS² sovereign connectivity program, the French satellite operator announ...
- Live coverage: SpaceX plans mid-afternoon Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB Spaceflight Now · 6 Mar 2026 The Starlink 17-18 mission will add 25 more satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from pad 4E is scheduled during a launch window that opens at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST / 2100 UTC).