NASA will award $150 million to advance the development of potentially revolutionary exploration technologies, including systems that could power outposts on the moon. The money will be split among 11 different American companies, to support projects that could help humanity get a foothold on the moon and other locales in deep space. “Partnering with the commercial space industry lets us at NASA harness the strength of American innovation and ingenuity,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement on Tuesday (July 25) that announced the new funding. “The technologies that…
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Laguna Verde’s Turquoise Waters
Woody Hoburg took this photo of Laguna Verde’s inviting waters as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles (425 km) over South America on July 7, 2023.
Read MoreNASA, DARPA Experts to Discuss Nuclear Rocket Program Developments
Experts from NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 26, to discuss the latest developments in the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program.
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Mission
A new cadre of four crew members is preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission.
Read MoreSatellites watch as wildfires rage across Greece (photos)
The relentless wildfires in Greece can be seen from space as the blazes rage across the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Evia. The wildfires started last week on July 17. Authorities suspect arson may have caused the initial blaze, which has since been fueled by high winds, ongoing heat waves and subsequent dry conditions. Tens of thousands of people have since been ordered to evacuate the islands during peak tourism season. Data from multiple Earth-observing satellites have captured the fires as they’ve spread across the Greek islands. The Copernicus Sentinel-2…
Read MoreSpaceX Falcon Heavy shows off its 27 engines ahead of July 26 launch (photo)
A new photo from SpaceX highlights the immense power of the engines of a sleeping Falcon Heavy rocket. The next Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 mission on Wednesday (July 26), during which it will carry the world’s largest private communications satellite to a geostationary orbit. Ahead of the launch, SpaceX has joined the rocket’s three boosters together in the company’s hangar at Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A), at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. SpaceX posted a photo to their Twitter account, which features a close-up of…
Read MoreA supermassive black hole is spitting a high-energy jet toward Earth
A NASA mission has observed a supermassive black hole pointing its highly energetic jet straight toward Earth. Don’t panic just yet, though. As fearsome as this cosmic event is, it’s located at a very safe distance of about 400 million light-years away. Actively feeding supermassive black holes, including the one at hand, are surrounded by swirling disks of matter called accretion disks which gradually feed them over time. Some of the material they don’t swallow is then channeled toward their poles, where it’s subsequently blasted out at near-light, or relativistic,…
Read MoreNASA Sets Coverage for Cargo Launch to International Space Station
NASA and commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman are targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch of the company’s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Read MoreNASA Partners with American Companies on Key Moon, Exploration Tech
NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space for the benefit of all.
Read MoreNASA, Industry Partners Unveil Hybrid Electric Aircraft Paint Schemes
GE Aerospace and magniX have revealed the paint schemes of the hybrid electric aircraft they will fly as part of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EFPD) project.
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