Space.com
• Mike Wall
NASA will fly a piece of the Wright Brothers' original airplane on Artemis 2, the agency's upcoming crewed lunar flyby, symbolically linking the dawn of powered flight to modern lunar exploration. The artifact honors the generations of innovators whose work enabled today's crewed missions.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Oman-based industrial conglomerate MB Group has ordered a small geostationary broadband satellite from Astranis that is slated to launch this summer.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: Water exists across Mars in underground ice, soil moisture, and atmospheric vapour, yet most of it remains frustratingly beyond practical reach for future explorers.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: New research from the International Space Station reveals that in near weightless conditions, both bacteriophages and their *E. coli* hosts mutate in ways not seen on Earth.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: As the ISS nears its retirement date at the end of the decade, companies are vying to build its commercial successor under NASA’s Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) program.
Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
By Space.com: "In the end, wherever you land, you will have contamination everywhere.".
SpaceNews.com
• Hans Martin Steiner
By SpaceNews.com: We need a ‘Planetary Neural Network’ for AI-enabled space infrastructure protection.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: An H3 launch failure in December may have been caused by an unusual event that led to the satellite separating from the rocket prematurely.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
