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Category: Space Exploration
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Artemis Moon Missions and Rocket, Final Artemis III SLS Booster Segments En Route, and more.
Artemis Moon Missions and Rocket Updates this week: The final eight solid rocket booster motor segments for the Artemis III SLS rocket have shipped from Northrop; and Northrop Grumman has shipped the final eight solid rocket booster…
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Mars & Lunar Exploration Updates, NASA Says Farewell MAVEN Mars Mission Hosts Media, and more.
Mars & Lunar Exploration Updates this week: NASA has declared the MAVEN Mars orbiter mission unrecoverable and begun decommissioning after an anomaly in; and NASA has officially ceased recovery efforts for the MAVEN spacecraft, which…
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Astronomical Discoveries &, Webb reveals black hole that formed before its, and more.
Astronomical Discoveries & Observations this week: Webb NIRSpec integral field unit observations of the lensed, high-redshift quasar Abell2744-QSO1 have provided the; and The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a northern portion of the…
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Roundup: Nasa Signals, NASA Fosters Development Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologies, and more.
Nasa Signals this week: NASA has awarded Interlune a $6.9 million, 18-month Phase III SBIR contract to develop flight-ready hardware for; and NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will execute a gravity-assist flyby of Mars on May 15, passing within…
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Space Telescopes and ESA Mission, Nancy Grace Roman Space, and more.
Space Telescopes and ESA Mission Operations this week: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been assembled at NASA Goddard, marking a key milestone ahead of its; and On 7 April, the four-person Artemis II crew, currently in…
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Mars Missions and Planetary Science, Push Back NASA Mars Mission Cuts, and more.
Mars Missions and Planetary Science Discoveries this week: Four U.S. Senators have formally requested at least $400 million for NASA’s Mars Future Missions program in the FY; and NASA’s operational tempo from March to April 2026 shows a…
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Artemis Moon Program Updates and, NASA s Artemis III Moon Rocket Hardware Arrives, and more.
Artemis Moon Program Updates and Milestones this week: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is now the primary assembly site for SLS core stages, with the Artemis III stage; and NASA’s mobile launcher, used for the Artemis II launch, has been…
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Roundup: Titan Life Hunt & Moon Tech, Dragonfly’s alien biosignature quest, and more.
Science Signals this week: NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan, targeting a mid-2030s arrival, has formally published its core science; and This matters for Space Exploration because it gives a concrete current signal to track…
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Roundup: Space Science Surges, Roman Telescope Assembled Ahead of Schedule, and more.
Future Space Telescopes and Science Missions this week: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been assembled at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, marking a major; and NASA’s operational tempo from March to April 2026 reflects a…
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Roundup: Search for Life and Discoveries on, Rover Finds Evidence Past, and more.
Search for Life and Discoveries on Mars this week: NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified a diverse mix of organic molecules, including nitrogen-containing compounds; and JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with contributions…