The Office of Science and Technology Policy has called on federal government agencies to develop common reference systems to support the long-term presence of humans on the Moon. OSTP published a memorandum
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The National Reconnaissance Office launched the NROL-149 mission from the Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday. The government agency said Tuesday it partnered with the U.S.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory has unveiled its new Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space and Strategic Systems facility—dubbed FORTRESS—during a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony at Kirtland Air Force Base in New
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The Starlab commercial space station has completed four crucial steps in its development, particularly its design and operational readiness. NASA said Monday the agency-funded space station has completed four reviews, including the habitat
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NASA has published its finalized low Earth orbit microgravity strategy that outlines key goals and objectives to support a sustained human presence in LEO and launch future space explorations. The strategy will
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NASA recently released several new documents as part of an update to its Moon to Mars architecture, a roadmap meant to guide the space agency in its efforts to explore the surface
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Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, highlighted the importance of operating from a common playbook to combine diverse capabilities and achieve a warfighting advantage, USSPACECOM
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has completed the integration of the telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, completing the Roman payload. Roman Space Telescope Payload Integration Process The agency
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NASA will resume its annual long-duration balloon operation in Antarctica by launching two flights in mid-December for planned nine missions to near space. The Antarctic campaign’s balloon flights will lift off from
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The U.S. Space Force and its Japanese partners celebrated on Nov. 18 the integration of a U.S. payload with the first of two Japanese host satellites that will launch from Japan’s Tanegashima
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