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A pathfinder satellite for NASA’s TROPICS mission was successfully launched in 2022.
A bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee on 2022-06-28, provided $25,400,000,000 for NASA.
Rocket Lab successfully deployed the CAPSTONE satellite for NASA into low Earth orbit on 2022-06-28.
An Electron rocket successfully launched a NASA-funded cubesat mission on 2022-06-28.
NASA awarded contracts to teams led by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace on 2022-06-01 to develop new spacesuits for International Space Station spacewalks and Artemis lunar landing missions through the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) program.
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission will not launch in 2022 because there was not enough time to complete testing of the spacecraft’s software before its 2022-10-11 launch window closes.
TBIRD will downlink data at 200 gigabits per second, which is the highest optical rate ever achieved by NASA.
NASA plans to launch the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission in late 2023 near the western edge of Nobile Crater.
The new round of NASA SBIR awards provides almost $95,000,000 to small businesses across 123 projects.
NASA spends about $85,000,000 per year on SOFIA, more than any other operational astrophysics mission except the Hubble Space Telescope.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, prefers previously used SpaceX boosters over totally new ones for most science applications following the 2022-04-08 Ax-1 mission to the ISS.
NASA plans to launch Crew-4 in time to allow Crew-3 to return by around 2022-05-10 after a five-day handover when both crews are on the International Space Station.
Satellites in the 350- to 450-kilogram range provide enough power for most missions of interest to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. intelligence agencies, and NASA.
A member of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel indicated that SpaceX was planning for 52 launches in 2022, most of which would launch from Florida.
Quantum Space intends to deploy capabilities in cislunar space to support NASA and the Artemis program as well as national security community requirements.
As of a 2022-01-18 NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee meeting, the new HEOMD structure has received approval within the agency.
The mission's most recent NASA update published 2022-01-12 states the current plan supports a latch attempt in the late April timeframe.
Lockheed Martin won a contract in 1996 to develop NASA’s X-33 program, which was intended as a suborbital prototype for an SSTO vehicle called VentureStar.
The Falcon 9 booster that launched Transporter-3 was on its tenth flight and first launched in May 2020 on the Demo-2 commercial crew mission for NASA.
NASA plans to land astronauts on the moon for the first time since 1972 with the two-person Artemis 3 mission now slated for 2025.