Dave Gallagher will become the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California on Sunday, June 1. The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro […]
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NASA awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope launch services contract
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide the launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact […]
Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon readies for launch
Firefly Aerospace has completed the environmental testing on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of the first mission to the Moon in support of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) […]
NASA’s 24th anniversary celebrates a “permanent human presence in space”
NASA officials noted that Saturday marked the 24-year anniversary of the agency and its partners maintaining a permanent human presence in space. “To put this in perspective, this means that […]
SpaceX launches Europa Clipper, NASA’s largest spacecraft to “study an ocean world beyond Earth…mind blowing science”
On Monday, October 14 at 12:06 p.m. ET Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the […]
First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument
Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite — the […]
NASA seeking student missions to send to space — new CubeSat Launch Initiative opened…
NASA has announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat developers to build spacecrafts that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). This initiative provides space access to U.S. educational institutions, […]
RTX provides Blue Canyon satellites for NASA Polar climate mission
RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) Blue Canyon Technologies has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission — the PREFIRE mission will […]
Astrobotic awarded NASA JPL Commercial Service Studies to enable future missions to Mars
Astrobotic has been selected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program for two concept studies of commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to Mars — the company will examine how potential […]