House bill would fully fund Mars Sample Return, block cooperation on ExoMars
In US capital, selfies with asteroid hinting at Earth's origins
In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel.
The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which scientists are studying in the hope of discovering if asteroids actually brought the building blocks of life - carbon and water - to Earth.
Exhibited to the pub Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age 87
Endeavour assembly at Science Center starts with lifting 52-ton rockets into place
The space shuttle Endeavour's twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft's aft skirts in a first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.
The two solid rocket motors—each weighing 104,000 pounds and the size of a Boeing 757 fuselage—were transported by truck in early October from Mojave Air and Space Port to the science center in South Los Angeles.
"It's actually pretty exciting. This is the first big tall pieces of the stack going into the building," California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph said. Each solid rocket motor measures 116 feet and makes up most of the length of the 149-foot solid rocket boosters. At liftoff, the white solid rocket boosters were set underneath Endeavour's wings and produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff.
On Monday, the motors will be moved from their current location—next to the museum's dining terraces—a few hundred feet closer to the construction site.
The first significant action begins Tuesday, when the science center will lift the first solid rocket motor into place.
NASA delays Artemis lunar rover award by four months
ESA's Proba-3 Formation Flying Mission Proceeds to Final Checks
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Momentus Inc., the U.S.-based commercial space firm known for its satellite transportation and in-space services, has achieved a significant milestone with the completion of vibration testing on its Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle. This critical phase of testing is an essential step toward its anticipated launch aboard the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission, earmarked for no earlier than March 202 Ovzon receives follow-on order for SATCOM-as-a-Service valued at 1.8 MUSD
Ovzon has received a 1.8 MUSD follow-on order to provide three months of SATCOM-as-a-Service in Europe with an estimated start date in December 2023.
This award is a follow-on order to the 4.8 MUSD contract from April of this year from an existing European customer. The April 2023 contract included both Ovzon SATCOM-as-a-Service and Ovzon On-The-Move (OTM) terminals.
Ovzon's SATCOM-a Planet Labs advances satellite communication with NASA CSP ground tests
In an innovative stride within the aerospace industry, Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has recently concluded a pivotal phase in their collaboration under NASA's Communications Services Project (CSP). This marks a significant milestone as they work to refine inter-satellite communication technologies, specifically satellite-to-satellite links.
As a key player in the domain of daily Earth data a 
