Tanks For Orion Flight Model No. 2 Delivered
February 21, 2019 – The first European Service Module for the Orion spaceship is still being intensively tested by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, but work on the second flight model is in full swing. ArianeGroup in Bremen has already delivered the first two of a total of four tanks for the second Orion model. On this mission, astronauts will for the first time travel to the moon and back on board Orion. Read More
New Policy Needed To Advance Space Resources Industry
February 21, 2019 – Space mining – the extraction and use of resources from the moon, asteroids and more – once sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Read More
Annika Rollock Wins Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship
February 21, 2019 – Aerospace engineering PhD student Annika Rollock is one of 25 individuals nationwide selected for the 2019 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program. Read More
ULA Wins Competitive Contract Award To Launch Three National Security Space Missions
February 21, 2019 – The United States Air Force announced this week that United Launch Alliance (ULA) was awarded a firm, fixed-price contract to launch three missions on the company’s Atlas V rocket. This contract resulted from a competitive award under the Air Force’s Phase 1A procurement strategy. Read More
Hubble Helps Uncover Origin Of Neptune’s Smallest Moon
February 21, 2019 – Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune’s smallest moon. The moon, which was discovered in 2013 and has now received the official name Hippocamp, is believed to be a fragment of its larger neighbour Proteus. Read More
Mock Countdown For Atlas V/CST-100 Starliner
February 21, 2019 – The joint team that will launch the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on its Orbital Test Flight conducted a successful Integrated Crew Exercise (ICE) on February 12. Read More
Boulder Ballet: New Horizons
February 21, 2019 – Boulder Ballet is celebrating the landmark achievements of NASA’s New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission. They’ve taken the beauty and mystery of space, the courage of exploration, the fragility and strength of humanity and created an evening of ballet that will take the audience on a journey of time and space. Read More
‘Artists Inspire Astronauts’ Contest
February 21, 2019 – NASA is holding an art contest to fill the hallowed halls of the Astronaut Crew Quarters at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This iconic hallway is where past Apollo and space shuttle astronauts took some of their last steps on Earth before heading to the Moon and the International Space Station. Read More
Solar Tadpole-Like Jets Seen With NASA’s IRIS Add New Clue To Age-Old Mystery
February 19, 2019 – Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of regions with intense magnetic fields on the Sun. Unlike those living on Earth, these “tadpoles” — formally called pseudo-shocks — are made entirely of plasma, the electrically conducting material made of charged particles that account for an estimated 99 percent of the observable universe. The discovery adds a new clue to one of the longest-standing mysteries in astrophysics. Read More
InSight Is The Newest Mars Weather Service
February 19, 2019 – No matter how cold your winter has been, it’s probably not as chilly as Mars. Check for yourself: Starting today, the public can get a daily weather report from NASA’s InSight lander. Read More
NIST ‘Astrocomb’ Opens New Horizons For Planet-Hunting Telescope
The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) “astrocomb.” Read More
Curtiss-Wright Preparing For Moon And Mars Missions
February 19, 2019 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a supplier of rugged data acquisition systems for aerospace applications, is helping to usher in the next generation of American space travel and preparing to launch NASA astronauts on missions to deep space through the world’s only exploration-class space systems: NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the Exploration Ground Systems that launch these vehicles. Read More
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Source: Carnegie Institution for Science
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Source: NASA
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Source: ESA
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Source: Nature
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Source: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
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Source: SYFY Wire
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Source: NASA/JPL
Trump Signs Directive To Establish New Space Force As Part Of Air Force
Source: WashingtonExec
Humans In Space Youth Art Competition
Source: SciArt Exchange
Solar Wind Fills Research Sails At Space Weather Center
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
Citizen Scientists Invited To Join Quest For New Worlds
Source: National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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Source: NASA
Technology Developed In Brazil Will Be Part Of The International Space Station
Source: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
LOFAR Radio Telescope Reveals Secrets Of Solar Storms
Source: University of Helsinki
Northwestern Study Of Analog Crews In Isolation Reveals Weak Spots For Mission To Mars
Northwestern University
Rosetta’s Comet Sculpted By Stress
Source: ESA
Trump Signs Directive To Organize The Space Force Under The Air Force
Source: Defense News
Insights From MU69’s (Lack Of) Craters
Source: AAS Nova
Citizen Scientist Finds Ancient White Dwarf Star With Puzzling Rings
Source: NASA
Trump To Sign Space Force Directive
Source: CNN
Confirming A Source Of The Process Behind Auroras And The Formation Of Stars
Source: DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Collins Aerospace To Host More Than 1,000 Female Students Globally For ‘Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day’
Source: Collins Aerospace
First Evidence Discovered Of A Gigantic Remnant Around An Exploding Star
Source: San Diego State University
New Sky Map Detects Hundreds Of Thousands Of Unknown Galaxies
Source: ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta To Keynote 8th Annual International Space Station Research And Development Conference
Source: ISS U.S. National Laboratory
Weather On Mars: Chilly With A Chance Of ‘Dust Devils’
Source: Cornell University
NASA Tests Urban Drone Traffic Management In Nevada, Texas
Source: NASA
Interactive Space Simulation For Nanosatellites
Source: ESA
Boeing Reaches Milestone Of Firsts With Forward Join Of NASA’s Inaugural SLS Core Stage
Source: NASASpaceFlight.com
LeoStella Looks For More Customers As It Opens Satellite Factory
Source: SpaceNews
Air Force Smallsat To Fly On Upcoming Falcon 9 Launch
Source: SpaceNews
Final Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Bill Secures $21.5 Billion For NASA
Source: SpaceNews
Podcast: Orbiting The Tiny Asteroid Bennu With OSIRIS-REx
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
Dates, Location & Theme For 22nd Annual International Mars Society Convention
Source: The Mars Society