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The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as the joint venture developing it awaits the next phase of a NASA program. The post Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space o...

The two-year deal covers satellite communications for Navy C-37 executive jets used to transport senior leaders The post Viasat wins $14 million contract to provide in-flight satcom for Navy executive aircraft appeared f...

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.

Multiple mobile phones, dashcams, and dedicated meteor cameras capture a fireball over part of Europe on Sunday night. Thousands of people witnessed it, and the ESA's Planetary Defence Team is analyzing it. So far, i...

The head of NOAAs satellite division, on administrative leave for more than half a year, warned that workforce reductions and cuts to science programs have lobotomized the federal government. The post Suspended NOAA sate...

Lunar dust can be a pain-but it's also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the moon. In that specific use case, its clingy, jagged, staticky properties...

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Download PDF: Insights into Spallation Mechanisms of Thermal Protection System Materials from Mass Spectrometry andHyMETSTesting An effort was undertaken to investigate the mechanisms responsible for internal pressure bu...

One of the Vera Rubin Observatory's objectives is to detect incoming objects. It's decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time will detect one-meter class objects about to impact Earth and allow more detailed obs...

Download PDF: Computational Modeling of Failure at the Fabric WeaveLevel in Reentry Parachute Energy Modulators Energy modulators (EM) are textile mechanical devices designed to dissipate snatch loads that occur when par...

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The farther the destination, the morefuelarocketneeds. The more fuelthe rocketcarries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft, the more fuelitrequires to launch.Expertsat NASAs Glenn Research Center in Cl...

Just a few days in simulated microgravity can subtly change the way womens blood clots, sparking bigger questions about health monitoring protocols for astronauts who can spend six months or more in orbit, say Simon Fras...

Imagine you live in a small town. Maybe its easy for you to imagine because you actually do. Youve spent your whole life there. You know all the people, and all the people know you. Years go by. Decades. The same faces a...

This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The human factors TDT looks for and creates opportunities to influence design to leverage human strengths and to protect people and missions. The human factors team has exp...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this...

Astronomers have turned to some of the oldest stars in our Galaxy to tackle one of cosmology's most stubborn puzzles and their answer might surprise you. By analysing precise age data for more than 200,000 Milky Way ...

When a satellite travels through orbit at up to 17,500 mph, a fraction of a second can determine whether a course correction is successful, as even minor trajectory deviations can [] The post Precision in Orbit: Heraeus ...

Join us March 25 at 2:00 p.m. EDT to learn more about the data offered by CSDA program vendor Satellogic.

This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The NESC has invested significant time and resources to betterunderstand composite overwrapped pressure vessels(COPV) performance and more importantly, how these complex, h...

This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The NESCs Thermal Control & Protection Technical Discipline Team (TDT) is a resource providing subject matter expertise in active and passive thermal control as well as asc...

NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June 3, 2015. The crater has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta. The steep inner slopes are carve...