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NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. KOIS...

SpaceX is one step closer to getting an updated license for its next Starship launch but must still wait for the completion of an environmental review. The post FAA completes safety review for next Starship launch appear...

Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fourth all-female spacewalk of all time on Wednesday (Nov. 1), and you can watch the action live.

Electrical issues disclosed a few months ago on the first four O3b mPower satellites in medium Earth orbit will significantly reduce their operational life and broadband capacity, their operator SES announced Oct. 31. Th...

Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station's front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually...

HawkEye 360, a commercial operator of remote-sensing satellites won a $12.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy's Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. The post HawkEye 360 gets U.S. Navy contract for maritime survei...

NASA knows it takes a village to make commercial manufacturing in space a reality. NASA is collaborating with experts from industry, academia and other U.S. Government agencies on the technologies in play with the InSPA ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station got all dressed up for Halloween Oct. 31. More costume changes are coming Nov. 1, with an all-woman spacewalk on deck.

NASA's In Space Production Applications (InSPA) implementation strategy consists of a multi-phase award process to demonstrate proof-of-concept, advance to high production quality, and ultimately to achieve scalability o...

After four decades of microgravity research, NASA and the ISS National Lab have identified numerous applications that are within reach for NASA's In Space Production Applications (InSPA) portfolio. Uniform crystals, semi...

The departing Shenzhou 16 astronauts handed over control of the Tiangong space station to the newly arrived Shenzhou 17 crew during a short ceremony on Sunday (Oct. 29).

NASA supports In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to help the selected companies raise the technological readiness level of their products and move them to market, propelling U.S. industry toward the develo...

The Space Systems Command announced 21 launch missions have been assigned to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020. The post Spa...

The NSF just awarded researchers at UChicago to start developing the CMB-S4 experiment, which will map the earliest moments of the Universe! The post New Telescopes to Study the Aftermath of the Big Bang appeared first o...

In-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities will eventually be crucial enablers of securing and sustaining the future space economy. However, they have not fully matured or become mainstream in th...

Every year, NASA's Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge invites student innovators to build and demonstrate concepts that can benefit future human missions to the moon and beyond. This year's ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has completed its safety review of SpaceX's Starship -- but that doesn't mean the giant vehicle has been officially cleared for its second-ever liftoff.

Iron-rich sediment colors the red-orange waters of the Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar in this image taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sept. 30, 2023. The sediment can clog waterways in the ...

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X-ray observations from the supernova remnant SN 1006 show its magnetic fields align to accelerate cosmic rays.

On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA's C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the agency's Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observato...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on track for its first asteroid encounter on Nov. 1. Lucy's optical navigation team has confirmed that the latest trajectory correction maneuver on Sept 29 accurately set the spacecraft on cours...