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(Credit: University of Trento/NASA) Welcome to this installment of The Intelligence Brief… This week, a groundbreaking new study using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified over a dozen newly confirmed pit craters on the Moon that could serve as natural entrances to underground environments—some of which may be ideal for future astronaut shelters. In our analysis, we’ll explore 1) how …

Mampfred/Getty Images NASA announced earlier this week that it will start randomly searching employees and their vehicles. While the space agency stated that it’s to ensure workplace safety, the measure seems to be out of fear that employees could engage in corporate espionage to secure new jobs before they’re laid off. NASA …

A new pre-print paper involving sometimes-controversial Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested a way we could intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it hurtles through the Solar System.  On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object moving through the Solar System at nearly twice the velocity of previous interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov. The object, which was confirmed to be …

SpaceX launched its eleventh operational astronaut mission for NASA today (Aug. 1), sending the four Crew-11 astronauts on a flight toward the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1543 GMT) today. Atop the rocket was the company’s Crew Dragon Endeavour …

As NASA reels from massive budget cuts by Donald Trump’s White House, the space agency seems to be clamping down hard on physical security measures. An internal memo shared by Keith Cowing, a former NASA astrobiologist who now blogs about the agency at NASA Watch, shows that all personnel and their property are now subject to random inspection by security …

NASA Just Found Perfect Spheres on Mars – And No One Knows Exactly Why  SciTechDaily Source link

How to get to the Moon … The report estimates that canceling the SLS rocket, its ground systems, Orion, and the Lunar Gateway would save NASA $5.25 billion a year. The authors posit several different architectures for a lunar lander that would be ready sooner and be compatible with existing rockets. This includes a novel plan to use Crew Dragon, …

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. The team is on track …

NASA Prepares To Gut Its Landsat Capabilities  NASA Watch Source link

Twin brothers and former NASA astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly have each flown four missions and were part of NASA’s twin study to research the impact of spaceflight on the human body.  Hours before SpaceX planned to launch another crew to the International Space Station, which was scrubbed minutes before liftoff, they spoke to “CBS Mornings” about NASA cuts, spaceflight and the …