The new legislative push comes just months after Congress approved the Space Force Personnel Management Act, which eliminated the traditional distinction between active duty, Reserve, and Guard units. The post Space National Guard debate reignited with bipartisan legislation appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 17, 2025
NASA will provide live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with Dragon spacecraft hatch closure preparations at 10:45 p.m. EDT Monday, March 17. NASA and SpaceX met on Sunday to assess weather and splashdown conditions off Florida’s coast for the return of the agency’s Crew-9 mission […]
March 16, 2025
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of March 16-22, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess […]
March 16, 2025
Relativity Space Preparing For Terran R First Flight
March 16, 2025
A Crew Dragon spacecraft with four people on board docked with the International Space Station March 16, setting up the departure of an existing station crew in the coming days. The post Crew-10 arrives at space station appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 16, 2025
Crew-10 arrived at the International Space Station just after midnight March 16. Commander Anne McClain (NASA), pilot Nichole Ayers (NASA), and mission specialists Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos) […]
March 16, 2025
Among the 74 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission was a technology demonstrator from the National Reconnaissance Office The post Intelligence and dual-use commercial satellites launch on Transporter-13 appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 15, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched more than 70 payloads in the latest in its series of dedicated rideshare missions that have reshaped the smallsat industry. The post SpaceX launches Transporter-13 rideshare mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 15, 2025
Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission’s trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth’s surface to […]
March 15, 2025
A report from Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority outlines the potential risks posed by rockets launched from Sweden’s Esrange Space Centre over Norwegian airspace. It estimates that each launch could cost Norway more than 1.7 billion NOK (€146.45 million). In August 2024, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries tasked the Civil Aviation Authority of […] The post Launches from Sweden Could Cost Norway Over €146M Per Flight appeared first on European Spaceflight.
March 15, 2025
A launch on Saturday would break the pad turnaround record at Space Launch Complex 40 by at least two hours. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 7:35 a.m. EDT (1135 UTC).
March 15, 2025
The Senate passed a bill tonight to keep the government operating through the end of the fiscal year. Ordinarily that would be good news, but many Democrats strongly oppose the […]
March 15, 2025
Rocket Lab launched a radar imaging satellite for a Japanese company March 14, the first of eight such missions under contract with that customer. The post Rocket Lab launches Japanese SAR satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 15, 2025
Crew 9 could return as early as next Wednesday.
March 15, 2025
Four people are on their way to the International Space Station on a typical crew rotation mission that has become enmeshed in political controversy. The post Crew-10 launches to space station appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 14, 2025
Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan […]
March 14, 2025
Space’s Crew Dragon Endurance lifted off from Kennedy Space Center this evening carrying Crew-10 to the International Space Station, two days later than planned. When they arrive at the ISS […]
March 14, 2025
In October 2024, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review the status and progress of research and clinical activities intended to mitigate the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) during spaceflight. The working group took place over two days at NASA’s Johnson Space Center; a second meeting […]
March 14, 2025
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 The days are getting shorter and colder for Curiosity as we head into winter. So our rover is sleeping in a bit before waking up to a busy plan. Today I served as the Engineering Uplink […]
March 14, 2025
Rising defense budgets and geopolitical shifts are creating new investment opportunities for Europe’s space industry, early-stage investors said at the Satellite Conference. The post Investors bet on Europe’s space sector as geopolitical winds shift appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 14, 2025
SpaceX is readying to launch the Crew-10 mission this evening, which will bring home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. SpaceX is working alongside NASA to bring the two astronauts home, and all systems and weather conditions are looking ideal to launch […] The post SpaceX readies to rescue astronauts from International Space Station appeared first on TESLARATI.
March 14, 2025
What does an engineer do? An engineer applies scientific principles to design, build, and test machines, systems, or structures to meet specific needs. They follow the steps of the engineering design process to ensure their designs work as planned while meeting a variety of requirements, including size, weight, safety, and cost. NASA hires several types […]
March 14, 2025
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency’s super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift balloons will travel the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes for planned missions of 100 days or more. Launch operations are scheduled to begin in late March from Wānaka Airport, NASA’s […]
March 14, 2025
Airplane manufacturers running noise tests on new aircraft now have a much cheaper option than traditional wired microphone arrays. It’s also sensitive enough to help farmers with pest problems. A commercial wireless microphone array recently created with help from NASA can locate crop-threatening insects by listening for the sounds they make in fields. Since releasing […]
March 14, 2025
The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities from looking out at our universe to breakthroughs in medical research, and is an active proving ground for technology for future Moon exploration missions and beyond. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, kicking off science and technology […]
March 14, 2025
Join us Mar. 24 for an exclusive one-on-one live interview with one of the nation's foremost authorities on hypersonics. The post Live Event: The Hypersonics Revolution – A Conversation with Mark Lewis appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 14, 2025
SpaceX will launch the Transporter-13 rideshare mission on Friday, March 14, during a 17-minute launch… The post SpaceX to launch Transporter-13 rideshare from Vandenberg appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
March 14, 2025
Depending on your locale, equinoxes can be seen as harbingers of longer nights and gloomy weather, or promising beacons of nicer temperatures and more sunlight. Observing and predicting equinoxes is one of the earliest skills in humanity’s astronomical toolkit. Many ancient observatories around the world observed equinoxes along with the more pronounced solstices. These days, […]
March 14, 2025
Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to research new or improved […]
March 14, 2025
"We are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities."
March 14, 2025
Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s first trove of scientific data, crucial to investigate how and why subtle changes in Earth’s atmosphere cause disturbances, as well as how these atmospheric disturbances impact technological systems on the ground and in space. “We’ve […]
March 14, 2025
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space Center in Houston, is paving the way for conducting lunar science for the benefit of humanity. Through CLPS, NASA teams worked closely with commercial companies to develop a new model for space exploration, enabling a sustainable return […]
March 14, 2025
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space Center in Houston, is paving the way for conducting lunar science for the benefit of humanity. Through CLPS, NASA teams worked closely with commercial companies to develop a new model for space exploration, enabling a sustainable return […]
March 14, 2025
The phases of the lunar eclipse are visible in this time-lapse image of the Moon above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, OH on March 14, 2025. Toward the middle of the Moon’s track through the sky, it appears red – this is the Blood Moon. One meaning of […]
March 14, 2025
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 captured a dazzling image of the Sun emerging from behind Earth early this morning from its vantage point on the Moon. BGM-1 is nearing the […]
March 14, 2025
Meet Sara García Alonso — biotechnologist, cancer researcher, passionate science communicator and member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve.
March 14, 2025
Florida’s coastal wetlands face new threats as sea levels and temperatures climb. NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign is developing a new, satellite-based data product that could shape efforts to protect their future.
March 14, 2025
Week in images: 10-14 March 2025
March 14, 2025
Parts of China’s space strategy might not seem directly tied to defense: plans for a joint Chinese-Russian lunar facility, a permanently-crewed space station or a burgeoning quasi-commercial launch sector. It’s […] The post What’s driving China’s commercial launch industry appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 14, 2025
One of NASA’s greatest successes of the 21st century thus far came in a very unexpected form: a four-pound helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity created a new Wright Brothers moment when […] The post Where no rover has gone before: how Mars helicopters enable a new era of exploration appeared first on SpaceNews.
March 14, 2025
