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  • Two NASA Commercial Satellite Communication Demonstrations Launch 

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from its launch pad at in a dark sky, surrounded by an orange-white exhaust plume that illuminates billowing clouds of smoke.

    Two NASA-funded demonstrations have successfully launched into low Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon-5 rideshare. Over the coming weeks, both spacecraft will showcase advanced satellite communications capabilities designed to support the agency’s science missions. After Tuesday’s launch, two of NASA’s partners, Viasat and SES Space and Defense, will prepare to test high- and low-rate communications […]

  • Spacewalk Preps and Advanced Biomedical Research Begin Week

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon smiles for a portrait while conducting spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock. Menon cleaned the spacesuit’s water-cooling loops that keep a spacewalker comfortable while working in the extreme environment of space.

    Spacewalk preparations kicked off the week aboard the International Space Station as two astronauts get ready to install a roll-out solar array at the end of October. Biomedical research, including portable biological sampling in microgravity and 3D cell printing, topped the science schedule for the Expedition 75 crew.

  • Diving into Maintenance with NASA’s X-59

    Technician diving into the X-59 Duct

    In the California desert, as NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 paused between its 11th and 12th flights, mechanic Jonathan Reynaga climbed a ladder to the top of the aircraft. Reynaga strode down the plane’s wing until he reached the distinctive air inlet that leads to its engine and stuck his head in. And then he dove […]

  • NASA Roman Team Checks Out Main Instrument, Sharpens Telescope’s Focus

    NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team completed a marathon of activities to fine-tune the observatory’s vision and prepare the primary instrument for routine use. “All of Roman’s sweeping surveys will rely on the Wide Field Instrument,” said Dave Hickey, a Wide Field Instrument systems engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. […]

  • NASA Completes Artemis III Booster Stacking, Shares Status Update 

    Inside a large industrial facility, two white rocket booster segments stand upright on the ground level, surrounded by scaffolding, platforms, and bright work lights. Two pointy nose cones pieces of hardware atop the booster segments.

    Progress on NASA’s Artemis III’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket continues at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where teams have completed the integration of the final solid rocket booster motor segments onto the mobile launcher for the “short stack” configuration that will be used during a tanking test. Teams also completed installation of all […]