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For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency is shifting to buying connectivity as a service, much like it does for launch and astronaut transport. That pivot has sparked a race, with major contenders pitching ways to keep Mars missions online. What’s at stake isn’t a …

NASA’s Random Policy Process  NASA Watch Op-ed: NASA’s New CLD Strategy Will Lose Mars, LEO to China  payloadspace.com NASA revises plans for commercial space station development  SpaceNews NASA and Congress Wrestle Over the Space Station—and How to Replace It  The Wall Street Journal Trump and Putin agree to end the International Space Station with Europe as a spectator  Atalayar Source link

This is one of the sharpest, clearest panoramas ever captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, showing what it’s really like on the surface of Mars The mosaic was stitched together using 96 images taken by Perseverance at a location known as ‘Falbreen’. NASA’s Perseverance rover has enabled scientists to hear sound on Mars for the first time. Credit: Dima Zel / …

The number of people reaching space has been growing, partially thanks to the likes of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. As of March 2025, 721 people have reached the altitude of space, according to the USAF definition; ‘a place where the laws of aerodynamics do not apply’. But one astronaut joined an exclusive rank when he became one of the few …

Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of what happens to matter in the direct vicinity of a black hole. With IXPE, astronomers can study incoming X-rays and measure the polarization, a property of light that describes the direction of its electric field. The polarization degree is …

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no later than May 2027, with the team working toward launch as early as fall 2026, its near-infrared Wide Field Instrument will capture an area 200 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope’s infrared …

NASA is seeking solutions for a way to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory despite the spacecraft being marked for termination after FY2026 under the agency’s budget proposal. The possible impending demise of the spacecraft, coupled with faster-than-expected orbital decay due to additional atmospheric drag caused by solar activity, makes Swift an ideal candidate for the potential …

Did you see that gorgeous photo NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took on July 3, 2025? Originally thought to be a sprite, Ayers confirmed catching an even rarer form of a Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) — a gigantic jet.    “Nichole Ayers caught a rare and spectacular form of a TLE from the International Space Station — a gigantic jet,” said Dr. …

To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft’s orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies – Cambrian Works of Reston, Virginia, and Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona – will develop concept design studies for a possible orbit boost for the agency’s Neil …

Insight Into NASA’s Contractor RIF Plans  NASA Watch Source link