WASHINGTON — NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget reconciliation bill as companies continue positioning themselves to bid
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NASA outlines objectives for Mars communications orbiter
WASHINGTON — NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget reconciliation bill as companies continue positioning themselves to bid
Europe's Answer to Starship
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and it may be about to change everything. But researchers at the German Aerospace Centre have been asking a question: does
Space Force opens secretive space tracking to commercial firms
WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data
Offworld Biology: Processing Microbe Samples Inside The Microgravity Science Glovebox
Keith Cowing Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻 Follow on
Rethinking The Microbial Future of Space Travel
Biofilms, shown here, are structured communities of microorganisms that could be important to space exploration. — University of Houston University of Houston microbiologist Madhan Tirumalai is part of NASA’s Analysis
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SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and it may be about to change everything. But researchers at the German Aerospace Centre have been asking a question: does
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations—low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with
WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data
Keith Cowing Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻 Follow on
Biofilms, shown here, are structured communities of microorganisms that could be important to space exploration. — University of Houston University of Houston microbiologist Madhan Tirumalai is part of NASA’s Analysis
Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Program The JWST Users Committee (JSTUC) met in person in Baltimore on December 2 and 3, 2025. Presentations included updates on the overall status of the
Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution. Larger image The bay is on the coast of Victoria Land on the Ross Sea – an extension
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX started the month of March with
In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet’s ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the idea that Mars was once warm and wet. Now
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