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On January 6, Gold successfully completed its second trajectory correction maneuver as part of NASA and UCB SSL's ESCAPADE mission.
NASA field centers have experienced staff reductions of about 20% on average.
NASA plans to deploy nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit.
The Saudi Space Agency plans to launch its first dedicated satellite for monitoring solar activity, developed in partnership with NASA.
The Dream Chaser spaceplane has successfully completed a series of critical pre-flight tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The New Glenn orbital launch vehicle successfully completed its second mission by deploying NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) twin-spacecraft.
Dream Chaser has successfully completed a series of critical pre-flight tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Vast Space is working to secure contracts with NASA for the Commercial LEO Destinations program.
The Swift spacecraft was launched by NASA in 2004 to explore the universe's most powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
NISAR has a 12-meter drum-shaped antenna reflector, the largest ever launched by NASA.
In 2027, NASA plans to launch the Multi-slit Solar Explorer to capture high-resolution measurements of the Sun's corona.
In 2026, NASA plans to launch the Sun Coronal Ejection Tracker, a small CubeSat to study how coronal mass ejections change as they travel through the Sun's atmosphere.
Blue Origin previously won its first Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) delivery for 2025 using its Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lander to carry NASA payloads.
NASA plans to launch the crewed lunar orbit mission Artemis II on February 5, 2026, or later.
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency calculated the location and timeline of asteroid 2023 CX1's descent with unprecedented accuracy.
ESA and NASA successfully predicted the time and location of 2023 CX1's fall with unprecedented accuracy.
NASA reported that Arctic sea ice reached its lowest annual minimum on September 10, 2023.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a small satellite that will observe Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere.
Zeno Power raised $50 million earlier this year for the development of a nuclear electric power system for NASA by 2027.
The FY 2026 budget request proposes a 25% cut to NASA, the largest single-year cut ever proposed for the agency.