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• NG-13 Cygnus departs ISS for extended mission

  Derek RichardsonMay 11th, 2020

  After 83 days attached to the International Space Station, the three-person Expedition 63 crew today bid farewell to the NG-13 Cygnus cargo ship after it supplied the outpost with some 3,400 kilograms of supplies and equipment.

• Astronaut Douglas Hurley to serve as Demo-2 spacecraft commander

  Laurel KornfeldMay 8th, 2020

    NASA astronaut Douglas Gerald Hurley flew on the last crewed mission to launch from American soil 11 years ago, and fittingly, will serve as spacecraft commander of Crew Dragon Demo-2, the first crewed flight to resume launches from the US.

• James Webb Space Telescope to unlock wonders of the Universe.

  Theresa CrossMay 8th, 2020

  The James Webb Space Telescope will work to further uncover the mysteries of the Universe after it launches in 2021 from the Guiana Space Center aboard an Ariane 5 rocket

• Astronaut Bob Behnken will be one of two-person crew on Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch

  Laurel KornfeldMay 6th, 2020

  When NASA’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches astronauts from American soil for the first time since 2011, astronaut Robert L. “Bob” Behnken will ride on the spacecraft as the mission’s joint operations commander.

• Yevgeny Mikrin, General Designer of Russian space program, dead at age 64

  Sean CostelloMay 5th, 2020

  The Russian space community is mourning the tragic loss of their General Designer, with Roscosmos confirming today that Yevgeny Anatolyevich Mikrin died in hospital on May 5, 2020, at the age of 64.

• NASA selects three companies to develop lunar landers

  Cullen DesforgesMay 1st, 2020

                              NASA announced on April 30, 2020 that it had selected three companies to develop lunar landers for its Artemis program.

• Booster B1051 in port following Starlink-6 flight

  Theresa CrossApril 26th, 2020

  Booster B1051.4 returned to Port Canaveral on April 26, sailing into port slightly delayed relative to previous returns but looking good on the deck of the autonomous drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY).

• Progress 75 resupply ship docks at International Space Station

  Sean CostelloApril 25th, 2020

  At 1:12am EDT on April 25, 2020, the uncrewed Progress 75 Russian resupply ship successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS).

• 30 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

  Theresa CrossApril 24th, 2020

  Thirty years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope took to the skies aboard STS-31 and Space Shuttle Discovery.

• New Horizons conducts parallax experiment; team searches for KBOs

  Laurel KornfeldApril 24th, 2020

  More than five billion miles from Earth and over 14 years past launch, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is conducting an experiment measuring the distance to two nearby stars while mission scientists are using Earth-based telescopes to search for new Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for the spacecraft to study.

• Successful launch, landing for SpaceX Starlink-6 mission

  Theresa CrossApril 23rd, 2020

  SpaceX successfully launched their next 60 Starlink satellites, lifting off at 3:30pm (EDT) on April 22 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex (LC-) 39A.

• SpaceX set to launch its seventh Starlink mission

  Cullen DesforgesApril 21st, 2020

  SpaceX will launch 60 Starlink satellites from LC-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

• Kepler data reveals Earth-like planet in star’s habitable zone

  Laurel KornfeldApril 21st, 2020

  Scientists who took a second look at data returned by NASA’s Kepler space telescope have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star.

• SpaceX to conduct first crewed launch in late May

  Cullen DesforgesApril 17th, 2020

  On Friday April 17,2020, NASA and SpaceX announced that astronauts will launch from American soil for the first time in nearly nine years on SpaceX’s DM-2 mission in late May 2020.

• Boeing to fly uncrewed Starliner mission for second time

  Theresa CrossApril 6th, 2020

  Boeing announced that Starliner would fly a second unmanned test mission in the Fall of 2020 from Florida due to an unsuccessful test flight in December of last year.

• OneWeb announces layoffs, files for bankruptcy following latest launch

  Matt HaskellMarch 30th, 2020

  In a surprising recent development, satellite broadband internet provider OneWeb filed for bankruptcy just one week following the successful launch of 34 satellites atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

• ULA launches final AEHF satellite atop Atlas V

  Theresa CrossMarch 26th, 2020

  Blue skies and light winds – they were near perfect conditions for a Florida afternoon launch.

• ULA set to loft final Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite

  Patrick AttwellMarch 26th, 2020

  Poised for launch on Thursday March 26, 2020, an Atlas V rocket is set to lift the sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite. The 2-hour long launch window opens at 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC) and stretches until 4:57 EDT (20:57 UTC).

• Twelve features on asteroid Bennu get official names

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 24th, 2020

  Twelve surface features on the asteroid Bennu, imaged by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe from orbit, have been officially named by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which regulates the naming of celestial objects and their surface features.

• COVID-19 precautions lead to Stage 4 site restrictions at NASA’s Stennis, Michoud facilities

  Matt HaskellMarch 20th, 2020

  NASA’s Stennis Space Center (Mississippi) and Michoud Assembly Facility (Louisiana) are being elevated to stage 4 of NASA’s COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response framework, due to increased case counts being recorded in the local communities.