Global Aviator

An artist rendering of a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) in orbit.

NASA, Industry to Collaborate on Space Communications by 2025

22 April 2022

NASA selected six American satellite communications (SATCOM) providers on April 20 to begin developing and demonstrating near-Earth space communication services [Read More]

Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama

NASA, Partners Develop ‘Lunar Backpack’ Technology

22 April 2022

NASA researchers and their industry partners have developed a remote-sensing mapping system set to aid explorers in the most isolated wilderness [Read More]

Rendering of the Axiom Space Station, including models and an immersive cupola.

Ax-1 Private Astronaut Mission Docks at Station

11 April 2022

After a journey of almost 21 hours, Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy arrived at the International Space Station at 8:29 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 9. Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the orbital complex while the spacecraft were flying about 260 miles above the central Atlantic Ocean. [Read More]

Artemis is the first step in the next era of human exploration.

Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal Update

11 April 2022

NASA is planning to proceed with a modified wet dress rehearsal, primarily focused on tanking the core stage, and minimal propellant operations on the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) with the ground systems at Kennedy. [Read More]

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission is set to launch Dec. 9 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASAs New X-ray Mission Will Unlock the Secrets of Extreme Cosmic Objects

29 November 2021

“This is going to be groundbreaking in terms of X-ray data acquisition,” Weisskopf said. “We’ll be analyzing the results for decades to come.” [Read More]