NASA

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Effort Faces Significant Challenges: Review

By Mark Carreau Sep 22, 2023
The current MSR mission cost estimate of $5.9 billion with a 2027 launch of the initial multiple mission elements will likely rise to $8-$11 billion.
Space

Osiris-Rex On Course For Earth Reentry

By Guy Norris Sep 22, 2023
Lockheed Martin says the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return spacecraft is healthy and on track for a pinpoint atmospheric Earth reentry over Utah on Sept. 24.
Space

NASA Posts Solicitation For ISS Deorbit Vehicle

By Irene Klotz Sep 22, 2023
The agency plans to make a single award for a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle on April 18, 2024, a solicitation posted on NASA's procurement website shows.
Space

NASA Ready To Embrace Deep Space Laser Communications

By Mark Carreau Sep 20, 2023
NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche mission is being prepared for launch to explore a metal-rich, main belt asteroid.
Space

NASA Astronaut Rubio Discusses U.S. Record Mission Challenges

By Mark Carreau Sep 19, 2023
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will pass the one-year mark in space on Sept. 21. His return to Earth is set for Sept. 27.
Space

Germany Signs Artemis Accords

By Mark Carreau Sep 18, 2023
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Walther Pelzer, the director general of the German Space Agency, participated in a signing ceremony.
Space

NASA-Russian Trio Launch, Dock To Space Station

By Mark Carreau Sep 15, 2023
Russia’s Soyuz MS-24 crew capsule autonomously docked to the International Space Station on Sept. 15.
Space

NASA Names McInerney To Oversee UAP Research

By Irene Klotz Sep 15, 2023
NASA has reversed course and decided to release the name of the person assigned to oversee research into unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Space

NASA Appoints Director For UAP Research

By Irene Klotz Sep 14, 2023
NASA pledged to be transparent in its data, but it declined to identify the director to shield him or her from potential harassment.
Space

Private Space Stations Prepare For LEO Operations

By Irene Klotz Sep 14, 2023
NASA is working with at least six companies interested in operating orbital outposts.
Commercial Space

New U.S. Spaceflight Record Holder Rubio Reflects On Unexpected

By Mark Carreau Sep 13, 2023
The previous record was set by fellow NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
Space

Axiom Space’s Third Private Astronaut Crew Cleared For ISS Visit

By Mark Carreau Sep 13, 2023
The four crewmembers plan to spend up to 14 days aboard the orbital lab.
Space

Space Station Returnees Grateful For Scientific Opportunities

By Mark Carreau Sep 12, 2023
Three of NASA’s four Crew-6 astronauts who recently returned from the International Space Station expressed satisfaction with their contributions.
Space

Psyche Spacecraft Is Slated To Travel To Metal Asteroid

By Irene Klotz Sep 12, 2023
After a year’s delay to resolve software issues, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is poised to explore a namesake asteroid.
Space

Psyche Spacecraft Is Slated To Travel To Metal Asteroid

By Mark Carreau Sep 12, 2023
After a year’s delay to resolve software issues, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is poised to explore a namesake asteroid.
Space

Megawatt-Class Electric Motor Shown Safe at High Voltage And Altitude

By Graham Warwick Sep 12, 2023
NASA-funded multiuniversity project builds and tests an integrated modular motor drive for electric aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

NRO ‘Watchdog’ Satellites Reach Geosynchronous Orbit

By Irene Klotz Sep 11, 2023
The program, known as Silent Barker, consists of at least two launches, each with multiple payloads.
Space

MOXIE Demo Extracts Oxygen From Mars Atmosphere, NASA Says

By Mark Carreau Sep 11, 2023
NASA has declared the Mars Oxygen-Generating Experiment (MOXIE) launched aboard the Mars Perseverance rover mission a success.
Space

GAO To NASA: Implement Robust Space Launch System Cost Controls

By Mark Carreau Sep 08, 2023
NASA officials have acknowledged the evolving Space Launch System rocket is unaffordable at current cost levels.
Space

Podcast: Are Supersonic And Sustainability Mutually Exclusive?

By Joe Anselmo Sep 08, 2023
Editors discuss NASA’s recent contract awards to study tech for high-speed airliners—and the one supersonic project that is still pushing forward, Boom.
Check 6

Podcast: Are Supersonic And Sustainability Mutually Exclusive?

By Guy Norris Sep 08, 2023
Editors discuss NASA’s recent contract awards to study tech for high-speed airliners—and the one supersonic project that is still pushing forward, Boom.
Check 6

Podcast: Are Supersonic And Sustainability Mutually Exclusive?

By Graham Warwick Sep 08, 2023
Editors discuss NASA’s recent contract awards to study tech for high-speed airliners—and the one supersonic project that is still pushing forward, Boom.
Check 6

NASA Steps Up Rotating Detonation Rocket Power Tests

By Guy Norris Sep 08, 2023
Building on good results of initial 4,000-lb. demonstrator RDRE engines, NASA says larger pressure-gain rockets hold promise for future space missions.
Emerging Technologies

Audit Calls For NASA Innovative Earth Science Mission Reforms

By Mark Carreau Sep 07, 2023
NASA says it will pursue recommendations from an agency inspector general audit report of its Earth System Science Pathfinder Program.
Space

First Women Astronauts Urge Future Generations To Reach For Stars

By Mark Carreau Sep 07, 2023
Three women astronaut candidates from 1978 observed the milestone and encouraged those from all backgrounds to follow their dreams.
Space