Towards low-cost missions to Mars
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 07:58
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Two decades after Mars Express, ESA is returning to small-scale missions aimed at exploring the Red Planet. With a completely different landscape of technologies available this time around, new opportunities for interplanetary missions open up. As part of ESA's LightShip initiative, four consortia will conduct independent parallel studies to define what a small low cost Mars satellite-platform could look like as a LightShip passenger.
The Mars Pivot
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 03:55 Write a comment
Just two weeks ago, in these very pages, I outlined what seemed then a bold prediction about America's space strategy. President Trump's inaugural declaration to 'pursue our manifest destiny into the stars' and 'plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars'- is not anymore campaign rhetoric it's the ultimate cosmic mic drop! Second Trump administration begins with confusion on acting NASA leadership
Monday, 20 January 2025 20:35 Write a comment
The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.
NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond
Monday, 20 January 2025 19:51 Write a comment
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Malargüe—A satellite dish best served cold: Cryogenic upgrade boosts capacity by almost 80%
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Astronauts on NASA's Artemis mission to the moon will need better boots. Here's why
Monday, 20 January 2025 18:07 Write a comment
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Trump’s second term: the space priorities and players
Monday, 20 January 2025 16:50 Write a comment
Our guide for a second Trump administration as it relates to space.
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The Starbase rocket testing facility is permanently changing the landscape of southern Texas
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NASA sets new hydrogen sulfide exposure limits for space missions
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Why organizing the White House for sustained space leadership is necessary
Monday, 20 January 2025 13:00
Executive order calls for cybersecurity review of civil space systems
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One of the final space-related acts of the outgoing Biden administration is an executive order that includes provisions on space cybersecurity.
Before and after space
Monday, 20 January 2025 09:35 Write a comment
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Before and after space China performs high altitude reusable rocket test with uncertain outcome
Monday, 20 January 2025 08:08 Write a comment
HELSINKI — A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight aimed at testing reentry and landing burns late Saturday without announcing the outcome.
Satnav summer school open for registrations
Monday, 20 January 2025 07:03 Write a comment
Are you a young researcher in the field of satellite navigation? Learn from top-notch experts and expand your network at this year’s ESA-JRC International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, taking place this July in Arachova, Greece.
NASA scientists find new human-caused shifts in global water cycle
Sunday, 19 January 2025 22:41 Write a comment
In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by activities such as agriculture and could have impacts on ecosystems and water management, especially in certain regions.
"We established with data assimilation that human intervention in the glob