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NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there’s a reason why
“This ought to make for some good reading,” NASA’s mission management team chair said. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins the […]
Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review
SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company’s Starbase facility in Texas. Firefly Aerospace’s seventh Alpha rocket […]
Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency’s own risk guidelines
No one on the ground has ever been injured by falling space junk, but there are examples of space debris […]
NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander
The report notes that during every one of the Apollo program’s crewed lunar landings, astronauts engaged the backup manual control […]
Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
Now, you might think NASA would ask industry for solutions to this problem. After all, United Launch Alliance was developing […]
Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
The binary asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact. Italy’s LICIACube spacecraft snapped this image of asteroids […]
With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?
Drink up, astrodynamicists! With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion? “We will challenge every requirement, clear […]
Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations
Nominally, NASA plans to have one or more of these companies operating a commercial space station in low-Earth orbit by […]
The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race
During a brief hearing on Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation spent only a few minutes […]