official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than January 2027 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “The award of our fifth private astronaut mission shows that commercial space is not aContinue reading “NASA Selects Axiom Space for Fifth Private Mission to Space Station”
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NASA Earth Energy Instrument Completes Testing, Ready for Delivery
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Libera instrument, which is designed to maintain the global data record of Earth’s radiation budget, has successfully completed comprehensive environmental testing. This critical milestone included thermal vacuum tests that simulate the expected space temperature and environments that Libera will experience during its mission. The Libera instrument will fly onContinue reading “NASA Earth Energy Instrument Completes Testing, Ready for Delivery”
NASA Aims to Advance Hypersonic Flight Testing with New Awards
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY While NASA is working with U.S. aviation to explore commercial supersonic technologies, the agency is also looking forward to an even faster era of flight – one of vehicles that can fly hypersonic, or five times the speed of sound. And to further that vision, NASA has issued two awardsContinue reading “NASA Aims to Advance Hypersonic Flight Testing with New Awards “
Mapping Perseverance’s Route With AI
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description This annotated image from NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image depicts the AI-planned route and the actual route taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover during its 807-foot (246-meter) drive on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The drive wasContinue reading “Mapping Perseverance’s Route With AI”
Video: Perseverance Rover’s View of Crater Rim Drive
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description This animation shows Perseverance’s point of view during drive of 807 feet (246 meters) along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Captured over two hours and 35 minutes, 53 Navigation Camera (Navcam) image pairs were combined with roverContinue reading “Video: Perseverance Rover’s View of Crater Rim Drive”
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Releases Archived and Tasked Multispectral Data from Satellogic
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “The mission of the CSDA Program is to identify, evaluate, and acquire data from commercial sources that support NASA’s Earth science research and application goals,” said CSDA Project Manager Dana Ostrenga. “The addition of this product from Satellogic to the SDX demonstrates the CSDA Program’s ongoing commitment to that mission,Continue reading “NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Releases Archived and Tasked Multispectral Data from Satellogic”
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The team for the six-wheeled scientist used a vision-capable AI to create a safe route over the Red Planet’s surface without the input of human route planners. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the demonstration used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance, a complex decision-makingContinue reading “NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars “
Preparing for Artemis II: Training for a Mission Around the Moon
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Four astronauts will soon travel beyond low Earth orbit and fly around the Moon on Artemis II, a mission that will test NASA’s systems and hardware for human exploration of deep space. Since June 2023, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have beenContinue reading “Preparing for Artemis II: Training for a Mission Around the Moon”
Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which operates three complexes around the globe that supportContinue reading “Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way”
Artemis II Recovery Training
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Off the coast of California, NASA’s Artemis Landing and Recovery team and the Department of War that will work together to retrieve the Artemis II crew and Orion spacecraft following their return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean are performing a final simulation of their activities, called aContinue reading “Artemis II Recovery Training”