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Since the latest malfunction, NASA has decided to transition the Hubble Space Telescope to a single-gyroscope operating mode by mid-June, officials say.

The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system, with the launch targeted for June 6.

The launch of NASA’s second Prefire Earth science mission small satellite has been rescheduled due to an off-nominal liquid oxygen propellant detection.

A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.

Starliner is due to spend at least eight days at the International Space Station for a shakedown .

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The company is hoping the upgraded Starship survives its return through the atmosphere.

NASA received 48 responses to its April 16-May 17 solicitation for alternative ideas to bring samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover back to Earth.

NASA has cleared Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to proceed with a June 1 launch attempt of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

Blasting space junk with beams of light could be one of the most cost-effective methods of cleaning up space.

The development element of focus is the Vasimr’s Generation 4 (Gen-4), or Rhino Horn, radio frequency power source.

Prefire joins more than two dozen current NASA Earth Science missions focused on studies of the planet’s oceans, ice, vegetation, atmosphere and landforms.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed into law a bipartisan transportation bill.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center on May 23 for final preparations ahead of launch in October to a Jupiter moon.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson again raised astronaut safety as the primary pacing item for Artemis III.

The heater units would be used on ispace’s Series 3 lunar lander and rovers, planned for launch to the Moon by 2027.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

Liftoff of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket with the initial spacecraft from New Zealand is planned for 3:15 a.m. EDT, following the weather delay from May 22.

The actions include improved tracking to facilitate just-in-time collision avoidance maneuvers and the more rapid deorbiting of large sats no longer functional.

An ocean world some 450 million mi. from Earth is a tantalizing candidate for life.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

NASA has named David Salvagnini as the agency’s first chief artificial intelligence officer.

NASA for the 12th year in a row has been rated as the best large federal agency for which to work in 2023, according to employee survey analysis.