Summary of the 2024 SAGE III/ISS MeetingIntroduction The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III/International Space Station [SAGEIII/ISS] Science Team Meeting (STM) took place on October 22–23, 2024, in a hybrid format. Approximately 50 scientists attended in person at NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC) – see Photo. Participants included researchers from U.S. universities, NASA LaRC, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), […]
Mission-ready communications: enhancing defense capabilities with multi-orbit, multi-network systemsWith the rapid integration of emerging technologies, today’s defense landscape is more interconnected and complex than ever before. This reality places stress on traditional infrastructures that often fall short in […] The post Mission-ready communications: enhancing defense capabilities with multi-orbit, multi-network systems appeared first on SpaceNews.
FAA clears SpaceX to launch its 9th Starship super heavy rocket, while Flight 8 mishap investigation continuesA series of aviation and marine warnings suggest the launch could be as soon as Tuesday, May 27, following the Memorial Day holiday. SpaceX has not publicly stated when it plans to launch the Starship Flight 9 mission.
NASA Awards Project Support Bridge ContractNASA has awarded a bridge contract to ASRC Federal System Solutions LLC of Beltsville, Maryland, to provide financial support and project planning and control services to the agency. The Program Analysis and Control Bridge Contract has a total potential value up to $98 million with a 13-month period of performance beginning Saturday, May 24. The […]
Student Coders Bring Novel Approaches to NASA ChallengeOn March 28, 80 college students filed into Colorado State University’s (CSU) Nancy Richardson Design Center to receive pizza and a challenge: design an intelligent system capable of traversing rugged terrain to provide aid in emergency scenarios. They had 24 hours to complete this mission. Co-led by CSU, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) […]
House Approves $25 Billion for Golden Dome, But Saltzman Worries About ResourcesOne day after President Trump received a draft plan for the Golden Dome missile defense system, the House passed the reconciliation bill that includes the first tranche of funding, $25 […]
Sols 4547-4548: Taking in the View After a Long DriveWritten by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of imaging. This means both sols have what we call “targeted” science blocks, in which we have images of […]
Sol 4546: Martian JengaWritten by Michelle Minitti, Planetary Geologist at Framework Earth planning date: Monday, May 19, 2025 Have you ever played the game Jenga, where you remove one wooden block from a stack, gently place it on another part of the stack, then repeat over and over as you try to keep the stack from toppling over? […]
Connecting GEOINT innovation to the front linesThis is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Devin Brande, Director, Commercial Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The post Connecting GEOINT innovation to the front lines appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First TimeIn a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they tracked were likely caused by extreme rainfall and by a loosened ice jam. While there is currently no database that compiles satellite data on […]
Straight talk from GEOINT: Keith Masback on the road aheadThis is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Keith Masback, Principal Consultant of Plum Run, LLC. The post Straight talk from GEOINT: Keith Masback on the road ahead appeared first on SpaceNews.
AI could deliver insights when paired with (the right) humansST. LOUIS – Artificial intelligence combined with human insight promises to transform geospatial intelligence, experts said at the GEOINT Symposium 2025. But it will require standards, data verification and monitoring […] The post AI could deliver insights when paired with (the right) humans appeared first on SpaceNews.
Devil’s in Details in Selfie Taken by NASA’s Mars Perseverance RoverThe rover took the image — its fifth since landing in February 2021 — between stops investigating the Martian surface. A Martian dust devil photobombed NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it took a selfie on May 10 to mark its 1,500th sol (Martian day) exploring the Red Planet. At the time, the six-wheeled rover was […]
Satellites take frontline role in maritime security'In maritime domain awareness, timeliness is often the deciding factor between actionable insight and stale data' The post Satellites take frontline role in maritime security appeared first on SpaceNews.
USSF’s Gen. Michael Guetlein Appointed to Lead Golden Dome ProjectPresident Trump appointed U.S. Space Force’s Gen. Michael Guetlein today to lead the Golden Dome missile defense shield project. In a televised Oval Office meeting, Trump projected Golden Dome will […]
Disrupting the intelligence machine: A conversation with Robert CardilloThis is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Robert Cardillo, president of the Cardillo Group. The post Disrupting the intelligence machine: A conversation with Robert Cardillo appeared first on SpaceNews.
Wyvern publicly releases 25 hyperspectral imagesST. LOUIS — Canadian hyperspectral startup Wyvern is publicly releasing 25 additional images including scenes of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Airfield and an Iranian port explosion. Wyvern launched its Open Data Program […] The post Wyvern publicly releases 25 hyperspectral images appeared first on SpaceNews.
Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure?Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that is as exciting as the one we had on Monday. This is our first arrival at a potential boxwork structure — a series […]
GEOINT 2025: Navigating intelligence in a shifting worldThis is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Ronda Schrenk, CEO of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. The post GEOINT 2025: Navigating intelligence in a shifting world appeared first on SpaceNews.
Webb Finds Icy DiskThis artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice […]




















