NASA has chosen 14 early stage technology proposals from different universities as part of an effort to advance and support future space science and exploration programs.
MoreNASA has decommissioned the Kepler space telescope, now out of fuel, after nine years of detecting planets beyond the solar system. The space agency said Wednesday it deactivated Kepler in a safe
MorePhilip McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASAâs headquarters, has said the space agencyâs collaboration with the private sector has resulted in a cultural change, broadened the scope of ideas and allowed
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David Davis, chief systems engineer for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, has said the service branchâs focus on resilience to counter emerging space threats has implications for spacecraft production and testing,
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The departments of State and Commerce have moved space-related equipment from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List as part of revisions to the May 2014 export control rules, Space
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has put off the launch of its weather satellite until after July due to technical errors, Space News reported Wednesday. Jeff Foust writes the same problems
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NASA will demonstrate a new Space Technology Mission Directorate-funded technology designed to support the potential return of science payloads to Earth from the International Space Station via deployed small spacecraft in 2017.
MoreRussiaâs space agency has lost contact with a Progress cargo resupply spacecraft more than six minutes into its flight to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft
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The U.S. Air Force is ready to launch the military branchâs first upgraded Wideband Global Satcom satellite on Dec. 7 onboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket, Space News reported Wednesday.
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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s future effort to capture imagery of coronal mass ejections would cost $182 million from 2017 to 2021. The Space Weather Research and Forecasting
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