OSIRIS-REx Completes Closest Flyover Of Nightingale Sample Site

January 25, 2020 – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale earlier this week as part of the mission’s Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere. Read More
NASA Sounding Rocket Observing Nitric Oxide In Polar Night

January 25, 2020 – Aurora, also known as the northern lights, are a sight to behold as they dance across the sky when solar winds collide with the Earth’s atmosphere. However, they also contribute to a process that has an adverse impact on the Earth’s ozone as nitric oxide is created during the auroral light show. Read More
United Launch Alliance Issues Call For Student Rocket Launch Payloads
January 25, 2020 – United Launch Alliance (ULA) is inviting the next generation of rocket scientists to submit payload proposals for the annual Student Rocket Launch, which will take place this summer. Read More
How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Continue Spitzer’s Legacy

January 22, 2020 – As one window to the universe closes, another will open with an even better view. Some of the same planets, stars and galaxies we first saw through the first window will appear in even sharper detail in the one that will soon open. Read More
NASA Celebrates The Legacy Of The Spitzer Space Telescope

January 22, 2020 – NASA is celebrating the legacy of one of its Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has studied the universe in infrared light for more than 16 years. The Spitzer mission will come to a close on January 30. Read More
New SwRI Models Reveal Inner Complexity Of Saturn Moon

January 22, 2020 – A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seafloor. Studying the plume of gases and frozen sea spray released through cracks in the moon’s icy surface suggests an interior more complex than previously thought. Read More
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SpaceX Starlink Launch Scheduled For Monday
Source: Parabolic Arc
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Source: Spaceflight Now
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Source: Spaceflight Now
House Introduces NASA Authorization Bill That Emphasizes Mars Over Moon
Source: SpaceNews
Seminar – The Great Gateway Escape: Departing Flows In Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
Olson Awarded Brooke Owens Fellowship
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
NOAA Satellites Helped Rescue 421 People In 2019
Source: NOAA NESDIS
Winners Of The Space Foundation’s 10th Annual International Student Art Contest Announced
Source: Space Foundation
Astronomers Detect Large Amounts Of Oxygen In Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
Source: W. M. Keck Observatory
Colorado Team That Built Spitzer Space Telescope Says Goodbye As It Powers Down
Source: 9news.com
Space Industry Group Focused On Cybersecurity To Begin Operations In Spring 2020
Source: SpaceNews
Firefly Confirms Fire During First Stage Test
Source: Spaceflight Now
Mars Curiosity Rover Says Farewell To Murray Buttes
Source: NASA
Collins Aerospace And Discovery Center Join Together To Bring STEM Learning Opportunities To Students In Rockford And Beyond
Source: Collins Aerospace
NASA’s Kepler Witnesses Vampire Star System Undergoing Super-Outburst
Source: NASA/Hubble
NASA Administrator Names Director For Center In Maryland
Source: NASA
SpaceX Presses On With Legal Fight Against U.S. Air Force Over Rocket Contracts
Source: SpaceNews
Boeing Drops Out Of DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program
Source: SpaceNews
Multi-Spacewalk Series To Replace Station Batteries Completed
Source: NASASpaceFlight.com
SpaceX Releases Preliminary Results From Crew Dragon Abort Test
Source: Spaceflight Now
Second Space Data Highway Satellite Set To Beam
Source: ESA
Building Blocks Of Life Spotted On Rosetta’s Comet Hint At Composition Of Its Birthplace
Source: ESA
Lockheed’s Rick Ambrose On Space Market, Manned Lunar Mission
Source: ExecutiveBiz
New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked To ‘Big Thaw’
Source: Curtin University
Warming Up For The Sun
Source: ESA