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On 2023-01-19, NASA suspended efforts to fully deploy the unlatched solar array after the most recent deployment attempt in December showed only minimal levels of progress.
The 2010 NASA authorization act directed NASA to have the Space Launch System ready for its first launch by the end of 2016.
Sidus Space Chief Technology Officer Jamie Adams supports using NASA‑level processes to increase confidence that design decisions will result in mission success.
South Korea plans to launch a national space agency modeled after NASA by 2023, tentatively named the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA).
NASA selected GeoCarb in 2016 to monitor carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane concentrations in the atmosphere over most of North and South America.
As of the most recent public updates, NASA had not provided additional information resolving the 2022-11-23 communications loss.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), described as the most powerful rocket in the world, launched an uncrewed Orion spacecraft from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the CAPSTONE spacecraft, a NASA pathfinder satellite designed to test the same orbit intended for Gateway.
When CFT was scheduled for February 2023, NASA had tentatively planned the first operational Starliner mission, Starliner-1, for fall 2023.
NASA postponed the Psyche launch indefinitely in June 2023 after determining there would not be enough time to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software.
Peter Schumacher stated in July 2023 that Firefly would perform one more Alpha launch in 2023 if the second launch was successful, carrying NASA-sponsored cubesats through a Venture Class Launch Services contract won in December 2020.
NASA plans to launch a crew to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew-5 commercial crew mission on 2022-10-03 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
Wesley Faler has spent more than a decade developing and refining the plasma thrusters set to fly for the first time on a cubesat launching alongside NASA’s Artemis 1 mission.
The GITAI IN1 successfully completed various tests corresponding to Level 3 of NASA’s Technology Readiness Levels in a simulated lunar environment at the JAXA Sagamihara Campus.
NASA has partnered with Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop next-generation spacesuits with improved life support, communications, and extra mobility.
A House bill approved by appropriators in June provides NASA with about $500,000,000 less than its fiscal year 2023 request.
The first operational Starliner mission under Boeing’s CCtCap contract will be the first of six missions awarded in 2014.
In a request for information in October, NASA sought a target of a substantial savings of 50% or more off the current industry baseline per-flight cost for SLS through the new contract.
Team Draper expects to launch and begin operations on the lunar surface in 2025 in fulfillment of NASA CLPS task order CP-12.
A pathfinder satellite for NASA’s TROPICS mission was successfully launched in 2022.