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SpaceX’s NASA Breakthrough Sparks Commercial Launch Revolution

SpaceX’s early contracts with NASA demonstrated not only the company’s ability to meet stringent agency requirements but also its capacity to attract a diverse set of commercial payloads. This dual success established space launch as a viable, competitive business, ushering in a golden age for the commercial space sector.

2025-05-26T08:22:18.828857-07:00

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Whitesides Urges Robust NASA Budget to Sustain U.S. Space Tech Lead

2025-05-23T05:31:17.916473-07:00

Urban Air Mobility News

Wisk and NASA Ink Five-Year Pact to Integrate Autonomous Flights into NAS

2025-05-21T05:26:33.398231-07:00

Japan Times

Japan Doubles Down on Artemis After Trump’s $6 Billion NASA Cut, JAXA Chief Says

2025-05-17T10:26:04.214833-07:00

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Commercial Stations Could Save NASA $1.8 B Annually While Opening Billions in New Markets A new study finds that replacing the International Space Station with commercially operated platforms could cut NASA’s annual costs by $1.8 billion. The analysis also forecasts a lucrative multi-billion-dollar market as private operators deliver research, manufacturing and logistics services in low Earth orbit.

2025-05-27T08:22:34.012716-07:00

Commercial Stations Could Save NASA $1.8 B Annually While Opening Billions in New Markets

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Federal Budget Cuts Jeopardize NASA’s New Mexico Chile Cultivation Aboard ISS In 2021, NASA began growing New Mexico chiles on the International Space Station to advance space agriculture and bioregenerative life-support research. Recent federal funding cuts now threaten to halt this pioneering experiment and its scientific objectives.

2025-05-27T07:21:29.641436-07:00

Federal Budget Cuts Jeopardize NASA’s New Mexico Chile Cultivation Aboard ISS

Space.com

Trump’s NASA budget cuts imperil satellites tracking atmospheric pollution Scientists warn that deep cuts to NASA’s science budget threaten vital satellite programs tracking atmospheric pollution and rocket debris re-entries. With re-entry events surging, industry experts caution that halting measurements now could push atmospheric damage beyond the point of remediation.

2025-05-27T03:09:10.909023-07:00

Trump’s NASA budget cuts imperil satellites tracking atmospheric pollution

Space Explored

Planetary Society petitions against White House’s proposed 47% NASA science budget cut The Planetary Society has launched an online petition to counter the White House’s fiscal 2026 budget blueprint, which proposes a 47% reduction in NASA’s science programs. The group warns the deep cut threatens critical planetary, Earth and astrophysics missions, undermining U.S. leadership in space research.

2025-05-26T09:42:30.409105-07:00

Planetary Society petitions against White House’s proposed 47% NASA science budget cut

Fox Weather

Northern Lights Surprise ISS Astronaut During Storm Photography While capturing images of active storm systems on Earth, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station was treated to an unexpected display of the Northern Lights. The vivid aurora that lit the station’s orbital path underscores the ISS’s unique position for opportunistic space weather observations.

2025-05-26T08:23:26.878303-07:00

Northern Lights Surprise ISS Astronaut During Storm Photography

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SpaceX’s NASA Breakthrough Sparks Commercial Launch Revolution SpaceX’s early contracts with NASA demonstrated not only the company’s ability to meet stringent agency requirements but also its capacity to attract a diverse set of commercial payloads. This dual success established space launch as a viable, competitive business, ushering in a golden age for the commercial space sector.

2025-05-26T08:22:18.828857-07:00

SpaceX’s NASA Breakthrough Sparks Commercial Launch Revolution

NASA Spaceflight

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Magellan Data Sheds New Light on Venusian Tectonics Over 30 years after its demise in the Venusian atmosphere, NASA’s Magellan mission has delivered fresh data that overturns our understanding of Venusian tectonics. New analysis of its radar imagery uncovers complex deformation zones, shedding light on how Venus’s crust evolves without global plate tectonics.

2025-05-25T14:23:09.030930-07:00

Magellan Data Sheds New Light on Venusian Tectonics

The Business Journals

KBR to Anchor 207-Acre NASA Exploration Park Campus with 45,000-Sq Ft Space Food Facility KBR has unveiled plans for a 45,000-square-foot space food manufacturing and R&D facility as the anchor tenant of a 207-acre aircraft, crew, maintenance and integration campus at NASA’s Exploration Park in Houston. The project aims to underpin the burgeoning low Earth orbit economy and future lunar and Mars missions.

2025-05-24T13:31:48.163752-07:00

KBR to Anchor 207-Acre NASA Exploration Park Campus with 45,000-Sq Ft Space Food Facility

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