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Satellite technology paves way for space traffic management
Jan 26, 2025 (SPX)
Blackswan's Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) system, powered by AI, enables satellites to autonomously identify, approach, or avoid objects in space. This system f...
NASA Opens New Challenge to Inspire Climate Solutions
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
The challenge, open for submissions until June 13, 2025, invites participants to propose creative and sustainable business concepts leveraging NASA's publicly a...
India becomes 4th nation to complete unmanned docking in space
Jan 16, 2025 (UPI)
The ISRO announced the demonstration of the maneuver in a statement, calling it "a historic moment." The Space Docking Experiment Mission, known as SpaDex, invo...
Stranded astronaut Suni Williams performs spacewalk at ISS
Jan 16, 2025 (UPI)
Williams joined astronaut Nick Hague in the spacewalk to remove and replace a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the ISS, install pat...
Space News: The Final Frontier of Exploration and Innovation
Jan 16, 2025 (SPX)
The Rise of Private Space Companies One of the most notable trends in recent space news is the rise of private space companies. For decades, space exploration w...
India achieves 'historic' space docking mission
Jan 16, 2025 (AFP)
The satellites, weighing 220 kilograms (485 pounds) each, blasted off in December on a single rocket from India's Sriharikota launch site. Later they separated....
Connections between Space and the NFL
Jan 16, 2025 (SPX)
Leland Melvin Most space enthusiasts will know the name, Leland Melvin. He flew two missions as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Atlantis, logging over...
Health checks and suit installs before Thursday ISS spacewalk for science upkeep
Jan 15, 2025 (SPX)
Flight Engineer Nick Hague and space station Commander Suni Williams, both from NASA, began their shifts on Tuesday with standard health exams taken prior to th...
Spacewalk Preps, Biology Research Wrap Up Week Aboard Station
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
Two spacewalks are scheduled for Jan. 16 and Jan. 23 to maintain astrophysics research gear, replace advanced communications gear, and search for potential micr...
NASA Documentaries to Binge Watch This Winter
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
1. Apollo 11 (2019) On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo 11 presents a captivating and visually stunning portrayal of humanity's first succe...
Hexagon to acquire Septentrio driving advancements in mission-critical navigation and autonomy
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
By integrating Septentrio's state-of-the-art GNSS platform with Hexagon's extensive suite of positioning technologies-including sensor fusion, anti-jamming capa...
Achieving High Precision for In-Orbit Instrument Calibration
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
To address this gap, ARCSTONE proposes a mission concept featuring an advanced orbiting spectrometer aboard a small satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO). This inn...
ISS crew prepares for spacewalks and advances scientific research
Jan 07, 2025 (SPX)
NASA astronauts are scheduled to exit the ISS's Quest airlock this month to service two astrophysics instruments mounted on the station's exterior. The first ta...
NSF and ISS Lab allocate funding for space research projects
Jan 07, 2025 (SPX)
- Fluid dynamics - Particulate and multiphase processes - Thermal transport processes - Combustion and fire systems - Nanoscale interactions - Manufacturing tec...
Five Ways to Explore NASA's Portfolio of Technologies with TechPort 4.0
Jan 01, 2025 (SPX)
NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate is excited to announce the release of TechPort version 4.0 - your gateway into our technology community. NASA tuned ...
Plextek's cutting-edge mmWave technology for space operations and sensing
Jan 01, 2025 (SPX)
Plextek's mmWave radar technology is an accurate and efficient way of detecting objects as small as a millimetre through to much larger objects like dead or unc...
From commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, the year ahead
Dec 28, 2024 (SPX)
As an aerospace engineer, I'm excited for 2025, when space agencies worldwide are gearing up for even more ambitious goals. Here's a look at the most exciting m...
More NASA science and technology set for Lunar delivery with Firefly Aerospace
Dec 25, 2024 (SPX)
Part of the Artemis program, this mission will focus on understanding the unique characteristics of the Gruithuisen Domes, a region of ancient volcanic activity...
Vast and SpaceX to launch two human spaceflight missions to ISS
Dec 23, 2024 (SPX)
While preparing for the launch of Haven-1, its private space station projected for deployment in 2025, Vast aims to leverage these ISS missions to strengthen it...
Space Gardens
Dec 20, 2024 (SPX)
A current investigation, Plant Habitat-07, looks at how plants and their associated communities of microorganisms respond to different levels of water. The stud...
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