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    The White House has nominated a longtime NASA center director and former acting administrator to be the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
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    Here's what you need to know about SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxi, its upcoming shakeout flight to the space station and the short-term future of human spaceflight.
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    The final photos that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped of Ultima Thule during the probe's epic Jan. 1 flyby reveal the distant object to be much flatter than scientists had thought.
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    As they prepare for their first lap around the Milky Way, our galaxy's nearest neighbors have shown a dramatic increase in star formation.
  • You Can See Mars Near the Moon Tonight! Here's Where to Look. February 10, 2019
    Mars and the crescent moon will team up in a delightful celestial sight tonight (Feb. 10) and NASA has some tips to help you spot the Red Planet in the night sky.
  • Israel's 1st Moon Lander: The SpaceIL Beresheet Lunar Mission in Pictures February 9, 2019
    SpaceIL's historic mission to the moon with the Beresheet lander is expected to launch from SpaceX Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will be the first privately developed moon mission and you can see it here in photos!
  • Orion Span Falls Far Short of Funding Goal to Support Its Commercial Space Station Ambitions February 9, 2019
    A startup with visions of developing private space stations raised only a small fraction of the funding it sought in a recent equity crowdfunding campaign, with no guarantee that it will be able to retain that funding.
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    Is Greenland's Petermann Glacier due for another big break?
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    An ancient supercontinent turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests.

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  • "It is in our nature to explore" February 15, 2019
    "It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all." -- Sir Ernest Shackleton born #OTD in 1874 pic.twitter.com/a6yhcFSW8y— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 15, 2019
  • Another Head In The Sand Moment For Commercial Space February 15, 2019
    Keith's note: Earlier this week the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and the commercial space community held their annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC. True to form they seemed to be uninterested in letting the rest of the country know what commercial space is all about and nothing was webcast. NASA Deputy Administrator […]
  • How Open Is NASA's Open Lunar Architecture? February 14, 2019
    Keith's note: NASA held a media briefing session today at NASA HQ. The purpose of the briefing was to talk about the various lunar activities NASA is engaged in. Specifically there was discussion by NASA SMD AA Thomas Zurbuchen about the science and technology missions that NASA is planning. Next week 12 payloads will be announced as part of the Commerc […]
  • NASA's Fourth Plan To Return Humans To The Moon February 14, 2019
    NASA Administrator Hosts Media, Industry Forum on Lunar Exploration Plans, NASA "NASA invites media to its headquarters in Washington Thursday, Feb. 14, to learn more about agency partnership opportunities with American companies to develop reusable systems that can land astronauts on the Moon. Events will begin with a media roundtable at 12:30 p.m. EST […]
  • O'Keefe And Squyres On Spirit And Opportunity February 13, 2019
    Keith's note: I asked former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe what his thoughts were today as Opportunity ended its mission on Mars: "The Mars Exploration Rovers - Spirit and Opportunity - missions were stunning achievements that exceeded expectations beyond anyone's imagination. Over the span of 15 years, for a program designed to last no […]
  • Opportunity February 13, 2019
    NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End "It is because of trailblazing missions such as Opportunity that there will come a day when our brave astronauts walk on the surface of Mars," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "And when that day arrives, some portion of that first footprint will be owned by the men and women of […]
  • Talking About The Other Things NASA Does February 12, 2019
    I'm excited about the opportunity to speak at the #WorldAgExpo tomorrow about how @NASA technology is transforming the agriculture industry. Watch live right here on Twitter at 12:30pm ET. pic.twitter.com/y9VBlegKLo— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) February 12, 2019 Growing plants can be tough, whether you're on a spaceship or Earth. But with a b […]
  • NASA's Underserved Sectors of America February 11, 2019
    Media Invited to Talk Tech with NASA Administrator at World Ag Expo, NASA "NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will speak to, and take questions from, media about how technologies originally developed for space exploration now are used to cultivate farms, predict crop yields, manage water resources, and more, during his Tuesday, Feb. 12, visit to World A […]
  • Cooperating With China In Space February 11, 2019
    Farside Politics: The West Eyes Moon Cooperation with China, Scientific American "The final law Wolf put in place--the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which remains in effect today--states no funds may be spent by NASA to "develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or con […]
  • Wallops Director Wrobel Moves To NASA HQ February 11, 2019
    Wallops director moving to NASA HQ; acting director named. Delmarva Now "NASA Wallops Flight Facility's director is taking a job at the agency's Washington D.C. headquarters, leaving his post after nearly a decade in the role. William Wrobel, known by many as Bill, is serving on a detail with NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Missio […]

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    The Bering Strait land bridge is now underwater, but a newly created digital map reveals how the landscape likely appeared about 18,000 years ago.
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    Space is warm — or, at least, warmer than it should be. A new study seeks to explain why.
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    After a fierce battle in 1942, the USS Hornet succumbed to an onslaught from Japanese dive-bombers, torpedo planes and destroyers, which hit the ship with torpedoes. But now, shipwreck hunters have finally located the Hornet's remains.
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    When neural networks attempted to create images of cats, the results were cat-astrophic.
  • Why Can't NASA's Curiosity Rover Rescue Opportunity? February 14, 2019
    NASA has another mobile robot on Mars. Why not launch a rescue mission?
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    When Mars was a wet world, did its oceans experience powerful tsunamis spawned by meteorite impacts?
  • Collapsing Cosmic Clouds Birth Black Hole Monsters May 24, 2016
    Supermassive black holes occupy all known galaxies, but astronomers have little idea how they formed. Now space telescopes have found a clue.
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    Strange plumes have been spotted high in the Martian atmosphere that have, so far, defied explanation. Now scientists think space weather is to blame.
  • NASA Probe Tracks Object in Solar System's Badlands May 23, 2016
    While coasting through the outer solar system, NASA's New Horizons is busying itself with astronomical observations of a distant Kuiper Belt Object.
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    Earth could have grown warm enough for liquid water as far back as 4 billion years ago thanks to massive and frequent solar flares.
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    Mars reaches opposition this weekend, making Saturday and Sunday (May 21 and 22) an opportune time to see the Red Planet with your own eyes.
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    A star hosting 4 massive gas giant exoplanets has been spotted -- is this how our solar system looked in its ancient past?
  • How to Form Io's Mountains? Just Squeeze! May 20, 2016
    On Earth, mountains form along tectonic boundaries, but Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon, is awash with molten rock and dotted with solitary mountains -- how did they form?
  • DNews: Meet a Black Hole 17 Billion Times the Sun's Mass May 20, 2016
    DNews sits down with U.C. Berkeley astronomy professor Chung-Pei Ma to learn all about supermassive black holes, including one nearby that's just honking huge.
  • LHC Opens the Quantum Physics Floodgates May 20, 2016
    As it restarts its mission to discover weird and exotic things about our universe, the Large Hadron Collider is about to become a firehose of quantum data.

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    The Sun's glint reflects off the Gulf of Mexico and outlines the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. The International Space Station was orbiting 254 miles above Louisiana when an Expedition 58 crew member photographed the Gulf coast including Matagorda Bay, Galvestion Bay and Sabine Lake.
    Keith Cowing
  • Mountains 660 Kilometers Below Our Feet February 15, 2019
    Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth has three (or four) layers: a crust, mantle and core, which is sometimes subdivided into an inner and outer core.
    Keith Cowing
  • Merging Neutron Stars February 15, 2019
    The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the chance to answer some of the fundamental questions about the structure of matter.
    Keith Cowing
  • Spacecraft Measurements Reveal Mechanism of Solar Wind Heating February 15, 2019
    Queen Mary University of London has led a study which describes the first direct measurement of how energy is transferred from the chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the particles that make up the solar wind, leading to the heating of interplanetary space.
    Keith Cowing
  • How Open Is NASA's Open Lunar Architecture? February 15, 2019
    NASA held a media briefing session today at NASA HQ. The purpose of the briefing was to talk about the various lunar activities NASA is engaged in.
    Keith Cowing
  • Extreme Weather in Chile Causing Catastrophic Fires February 14, 2019
    February has just begun and already weather extremes are being seen throughout the country of Chile. In the northern part of Chile one of the world's driest deserts is flooding and in the south some of the planet's wettest woodlands are burning.
    Keith Cowing
  • NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End February 13, 2019
    One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA's return to the Red Planet.
    Keith Cowing
  • NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 12 February 2019 - Daily Exercise and Research February 13, 2019
    The Expedition 58 crew explored space exercise and checked out biology hardware today aboard the International Space Station.
    Marc Boucher
  • Lake Nasser in Egypt As Seen From Orbit February 13, 2019
    Lake Nasser in Egypt, which leads to the Nile River, is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 251 miles above the Western Desert in the African nation.
    Keith Cowing
  • Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars February 13, 2019
    A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
    Keith Cowing

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  • SpaceX files protest of NASA’s Lucy launch contract awarded to ULA February 15, 2019
    SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space.
    Stephen Clark
  • Experimental British satellite tests harpoon in orbit February 15, 2019
    A British satellite released from the International Space Station last year has successfully demonstrated a harpoon that could be used on future missions to clean up space debris, officials announced Friday.
    Stephen Clark
  • NASA selects mission to probe the history of galaxies February 14, 2019
    NASA has selected a space telescope named SPHEREx for launch in 2023 on a mission to survey the sky in near-infrared wavelengths, collecting spectral data to study the origins of the universe and ices in our own galaxy that could help seed life on planets.
    Stephen Clark
  • Q&A with Jamie Bock, principal investigator of NASA’s SPHEREx mission (members only) February 14, 2019
    Jamie Bock, a professor of physics at Caltech, is principal investigator of the SPHEREx astrophysics mission selected by NASA on Feb. 13 as the next medium-class mission in the agency's line of Explorer probes.
    Stephen Clark
  • NASA declares Opportunity rover dead after 15 years on Mars February 13, 2019
    Eight months after last hearing from the Opportunity rover, NASA officials announced the end of the craft's 15-year mission Wednesday, closing out an ambitious chapter of Mars exploration that proved the Red Planet once harbored running water and demonstrated the promise of mobile robotic scouts to survey other worlds.
    Stephen Clark
  • CubeSat deployed from space station to test sample return technology February 13, 2019
    One of five CubeSats deployed from the International Space Station last month is testing a steerable drag brake that could find use in future smallsats to return experiment samples to the ground from low Earth orbit, or on low-cost micro-probes to explore other planets.
    Stephen Clark
  • Watch a spectacular slow-motion replay of last week’s Ariane 5 launch February 11, 2019
    Arianespace and CNES, the French space agency, have released sensational slow-motion video from shielded engineering cameras at the Ariane 5 rocket's launch pad in French Guiana, showing the launcher's fiery evening takeoff Feb. 5 with communications satellites for Saudi Arabia and India.
    Stephen Clark
  • Second Iranian satellite launch attempt in a month fails February 11, 2019
    Iran's second try in less than a month to send a satellite into orbit apparently failed shortly after liftoff from a remote desert launch pad under daily surveillance from a fleet of commercial imaging spacecraft, according to U.S. government officials and independent analysts.
    Stephen Clark
  • Cygnus supply ship departs space station for extended mission February 8, 2019
    A commercial Cygnus supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday for an extended mission to deploy five nanosatellites and conduct other experiments before re-entering the atmosphere and burning up with more than two tons of trash.
    Stephen Clark
  • NASA’s first interplanetary CubeSats fall silent beyond Mars February 6, 2019
    After a successful mission that pushed the limits of small satellite technology, ground controllers have lost contact with two briefcase-sized CubeSats beyond Mars, NASA said Tuesday.
    Stephen Clark

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  • NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End February 13, 2019
    One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA's return to the Red Planet.
  • Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars February 13, 2019
    A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
  • A Dune Field Near Nili Patera February 13, 2019
    In this image many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called "barchan dunes." They are formed by the continuous action of the wind blowing in the same direction.
  • InSight's Seismometer Now Has a Cozy Shelter on Mars February 5, 2019
    For the past several weeks, NASA's InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec. 19.
  • Curiosity Measures a Martian Mountain's Gravity February 1, 2019
    Apollo 17 astronauts drove a moon buggy across the lunar surface in 1972, measuring gravity with a special instrument. There are no astronauts on Mars, but a group of clever researchers realized they have just the tools for similar experiments with the Martian buggy they're operating.
  • Curiosity Says Farewell to Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge January 29, 2019
    NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp.
  • Opportunity Rover Logs 15 Years On Mars January 25, 2019
    NASA's Opportunity rover begins its 15th year on the surface of Mars today.
  • ExoMars Software Passes ESA Mars Yard Driving Test January 21, 2019
    Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.
  • Snow Inside Korolev Crater On Mars December 21, 2018
    This image shows what appears to be a large patch of fresh, untrodden snow - a dream for any lover of the holiday season.
  • InSight Places A Seismometer On Mars December 20, 2018
    NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone.

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  • Iridium-8 Mission January 11, 2019
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  • Dragon Resupply Mission (CRS-16) December 5, 2018
  • Es’hail-2 Mission November 15, 2018
  • SAOCOM 1A Mission October 8, 2018
  • First Private Passenger on Lunar Starship Mission September 18, 2018
  • Telstar 18 VANTAGE September 10, 2018
  • Merah Putih Mission August 9, 2018

RSS Spacewire

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 15 February 2019
  • NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #836 15 February 2019 (Space Life Science Research Results)
  • NASA Announces Opportunities to Advance ‘Tipping Point’ Space Technologies through Public-Private Partnerships with American Industry
  • NASA Space Biology Program Awards Four Grants for Lunar Orbit Mission Experiments
  • Aerospace Industry Takes Action to Outpace the Threat in Space
  • UrtheCast Announces Mutual Termination of Credit Agreement
  • exactEarth's Revolutionary Global Real-Time Maritime Tracking and Information System now Fully-Deployed
  • UNOOSA and Space Generation Advisory Council sign Memorandum of Understanding
  • Florida Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard International Space Station
  • Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 14 February 2019

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  • NASA Glenn Keeps X-57 Cool February 15, 2019
    NASA is preparing to explore electric-powered flight with the X-57 Maxwell, a unique all-electric aircraft which features 14 propellers along its wing.
  • Astronauts Train for the Boeing Crew Flight Test February 14, 2019
    This preflight image from Feb. 6, 2019, shows NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson during spacewalk preparations and training inside the Space Station Airlock Mockup at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
  • Taking a Look Back at Opportunity's Record-Setting Mission February 13, 2019
    NASA's record-setting Opportunity rover mission on Mars comes to end.
  • Robert Curbeam: Building the Space Station, Making History February 12, 2019
    Robert Curbeam currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight.
  • The Red Planet's Layered History February 11, 2019
    Erosion of the surface reveals several shades of light toned layers, likely sedimentary deposits, as shown in this image taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
  • Mary Jackson: A Life of Service and a Love of Science February 8, 2019
    Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity.
  • Vice President Attends NASA Day of Remembrance February 7, 2019
    Vice President Mike Pence visits the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial after a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

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