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Ken Freeman Receives Air Traffic Control Association...

December 23, 2024

Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Award to the NASA ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP) TeamIn November 2024, the Digital Information Platform (DIP) team received the prestigious Industry Award from the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) at the annual ATCA Connect Conference in Washington, DC. The award recognized the team’s efforts in supporting NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership (SFNP), which aims for net-zero carbon emissions from aviation by 2050. The DIP sub-project focuses on increasing access to digital aviation information to enable efficient and sustainable airspace operations. DIP team has...

A NASA Spacecraft Will 'Touch' the Sun...

December 23, 2024

The Parker Solar Probe will endure scorching temperatures of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit as it performs the closest solar flyby of any human-made object in history

Science Done by Volunteers Highlighted at December’s...

December 23, 2024

More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers! The American Geophysical Union held its annual meeting of professionals this month – the world’s largest gathering of Earth and Space Scientists. Here’s what they were talking about. Eighteen NASA-sponsored project team members presented discoveries made with volunteers on topics from solar eclipses to global freshwater lake monitoring and exoplanet research.<!–> Overall, 175 posters...

Divers Discover 2,500-Year-Old Shipwreck Off the Coast...

December 23, 2024

Dating to the fifth or sixth century B.C.E., the vessel could provide new insights into the relationship between the ancient Greeks and Carthaginians

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry,...

December 23, 2024

Share Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry, silver coins, and other relics at ancient gravesites in western Norway. At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly respected and wealthy Viking women. But don’t expect archeologists to find their bones—or any other human remains—in the estimated 17 other nearby burial locations. Last year, artifact hunters wielding a metal detector discovered an ancient coin and brooch near the town of Fitjar. The finds soon...

Because learning piano beats trying to cut...

December 23, 2024

Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Forget the fad diets and guilt-inducing gym memberships. In 2025, why not set a different type of New Year’s resolution that involves a different kind of a “healthier you”? It involves a piano, not a plate. You’ve always wanted to learn piano, so a new year is the perfect time to finally make it happen. But, instead of going...

In-orbit servicers get UK funds to help...

December 23, 2024

TAMPA, Fla. — The British government is funding a group of in-orbit servicing ventures to help develop ground rules for their planned rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO). The British subsidiaries of Japan-based Astroscale, Switzerland’s ClearSpace, and D-Orbit of Italy said Dec. 23 they jointly secured 690,000 British pounds ($869,000) from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for an initial “regulatory sandbox” phase. “The total value is relatively small but I think it has the potential to really...

NASA delays launch of heliophysics missions

December 22, 2024

WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the launch of three missions to study the sun by several months because of issues with the primary payload. In a statement issued after the close of business Dec. 20, NASA announced the launch of its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft on a Falcon 9, previously scheduled for the spring of 2025, had been pushed back to no earlier than September. The agency said only that the delay gives “additional time for...

Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords

December 22, 2024

WASHINGTON — Liechtenstein became the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords Dec. 20, bringing the total number of signatories to more than half of a key United Nations body. Rainer Schnepfleitner, director of Liechtenstein’s Office for Communications, the government agency responsible for space issues, signed the Artemis Accords in an event at NASA Headquarters also attended by Georg Sparber, the country’s ambassador to the United States, and U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Scott Miller. “With its participation...

Parker Solar Probe to make closest approach...

December 22, 2024

WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft is performing better than expected as it makes its closest approach to the sun this week. Parker Solar Probe will pass 6.1 million kilometers from the sun at 6:53 a.m. Eastern Dec. 24, the closest approach to the sun by this or any other spacecraft. At the time of closest approach, the spacecraft will be traveling 191 kilometers per second. The spacecraft launched in 2018 and used a series of gravity-assist flybys of Venus...

The Space Rapid Capabilities Office: unlocking the...

December 22, 2024

The United States Space Force is a critical component of our nation’s defense. As the newest branch of the U.S. military, the Space Force is responsible for protecting and defending our nation’s interests in space. This includes everything from satellite communications and navigation to missile warning and defense. The Space Force is also working to develop new capabilities, such as agile protect-and-defend systems, which enable us to stay ahead of emerging threats, hold adversary space systems at risk and...

SpaceX launches second mid-inclination rideshare mission

December 21, 2024

WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched 30 satellites Dec. 21 on the second in a series of dedicated rideshare missions to mid-inclination orbits. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:34 a.m. Eastern on the Bandwagon-2 mission. The Falcon 9 first stage, making its 21st flight, make a landing back at the launch site 8 minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff, just as the second stage completed its burn. SpaceX did not provide details about...

Rocket Lab launches sixth Synspective radar imaging...

December 21, 2024

WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for Synspective Dec. 21, days after that Japanese company lifted off on the stock market. The Electron rocket lifted off from Pad B of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 9:17 a.m. Eastern. The launch was postponed a few days because of weather and a previous launch attempt was scrubbed Dec. 20 when the company reported an out-of-family reading with an unspecified sensor. The...

Retired military weather satellite breaks up

December 20, 2024

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — A defunct military weather satellite has broken up in orbit and created more than 50 pieces of debris, the latest in a series of similar incidents involving that line of spacecraft. The U.S. Space Force reported Dec. 19 that it had identified a “low-velocity fragmentation event” involving the DMSP-5D2 F14 spacecraft. The event took place at 9:10 p.m. Eastern...

NASA Selects Four Commercial Companies to Support...

December 20, 2024

NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth. The work will be awarded under new Near Space Network services contracts that are firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts. Project timelines span from February 2025 to September 2029, with an additional five-year option period that could extend a contract through Sept. 30, 2034. The cumulative maximum value...

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