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Voyager Technologies says its Griffin-1 lunar lander has completed acceptance testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft is planned to launch in late 2026 on a mission to the Moon’s south pole, marking a readiness milestone ahead of its scheduled flight.
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Voyager Technologies says its Griffin-1 lunar lander has completed acceptance testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft is planned to launch in late 2026 on a mission to the Moon’s south pole, marking a readiness milestone ahead of its scheduled flight.
SpaceX’s CRS-35 mission, its 35th flight under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program, sent a cargo Dragon toward the International Space Station. The spacecraft was due to rendezvous with the station on Oct. 15 after a two-day journey, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo.
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A NASA official says the agency is staffing up and accelerating work on its first Venus missions in a generation. The available report does not identify the missions, schedule or scale of the hiring, leaving the program’s specific milestones unclear.
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The Artemis II mission specialist will take the acting deputy chief engineer role on Nov. 1, supporting technical oversight, mission readiness and engineering standards across NASA programs. Koch succeeds Katherine Van Hooser, who is retiring after more than 35 years at the agency; the move ends Koch’s eligibility for future spaceflight.
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Four years after NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately struck an asteroid, Europe’s Hera probe is arriving to examine the collision site. The mission is intended to establish what the first-of-its-kind impact accomplished, providing a closer look at the consequences of the test.
Astronauts traveling to Mars or elsewhere in deep space will face radiation and weightlessness—hazards that Earth’s surface shields people from. The article highlights the potential threat these conditions pose to the heart, making human health a central concern for future deep-space missions.
An international team led by Shandong University used observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft to find that Jupiter’s magnetodisk is a wavy, rippling structure that rotates with the planet. The result challenges the previous understanding of how the giant planet’s magnetodisk behaves.
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A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 6:33 a.m. EDT on Oct. 13 for NASA’s 35th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware. The mission also deployed GHGSat’s Eleanor and Aidan satellites, expanding its methane-monitoring constellation.
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