Separate investigations into two high-profile commercial launch accidents six months ago are entering their final phases and will be completed in the next few months or, in some cases, weeks.
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Landsat 9 Office Opens at Goddard; Procurement Decisions Loom
While Landsat 9’s program office is now operational at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, major procurement decisions for the next in the long series of land-imagining satellites may not be made until fall, a senior NASA official said.
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ORS CubeSats Close Out a Successful Test and Re-enter Earth’s Atmosphere
Artist’s impression of an ORS Tech CubeSat in orbit. The small satellites had all the subsystems of a standard orbiter — command and data handling, communications, navigation, power and payload […]
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Inner Region of Young Star and its Planets Probed
Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet […]
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Ceres’ Bright Spots Come Back Into View
The two brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images […]
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Paul Allen’s Vulcan Aerospace Ready To Stretch Its Wings
In 2014, Paul Allen formed Vulcan Aerospace to realize his vision of easing access and convenience to space, and made Stratolaunch Systems a subsidiary. Vulcan Aerospace plans to cut the cost of sending rockets to low Earth orbit.
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Dawn Glimpses Ceres’ North Pole
After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this […]
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Celebrate with NASA as Agency Commemorates Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th Anniversary
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th anniversary with a variety of events highlighting its groundbreaking achievements and scientific contributions with activities running April 20-26. Hubble, the world’s first […]
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NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9 to Continue Land Imaging Legacy
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have started work on Landsat 9, planned to launch in 2023, which will extend the Earth-observing program’s record of land images to half […]
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Established Companies Feeling ‘Déjà Vu’ on Mega-constellations
The low Earth orbit constellations planned by upstarts OneWeb and SpaceX have garnered comparisons to the 1990s space-telecom bust.
