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The purpose of the Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project is to engage with industry and other government organizations to identify, select, and mature key airframe technologies, such as new wing designs, that have a high probability of transition to the next generation single-aisle seat class airliner. Moving technologies from a research environment to a production environment […]
Reported and summarised by NASA. Opens in a new tab.
The FDC project conducts complex integrated small-scale flight research to validate the benefits of new technologies. By modifying aircraft from FDC’s support fleet, the project enables aggressive, success-oriented flight campaign schedules. While many technologies are at mid-levels of technology readiness, the FDC project supports all phases of technology maturation. FDC’s support aircraft fleet enables safety chase and in-flight experimental measurements for a variety of […]
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This article is for students grades 5-8. What is Pi? Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the symbol π. But it’s way more than that! What Makes Pi Special? Pi is an irrational number. That means it goes on forever and it never repeats its sequence of numbers. Pi has […]
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On Monday, NASA announced Bradley Flick, director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, will retire Thursday, March 19, after a nearly 40-year career advancing aeronautics and flight research. Flick began his NASA journey in 1986 as a flight systems engineer and rose through the ranks to lead the center. His career spanned […]
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NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 12, to highlight progress toward the Artemis II crewed mission around the Moon. The media briefing will take place from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the conclusion of an Artemis II Flight Readiness Review. The news conference will stream live […]
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The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) partnered with Materials and Processes and Flammability subject matter experts from the Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, and the Marshall Space Flight Center to design and develop a test for evaluating the effectiveness of material assemblies to serve as a barrier between a potential cabin ignition […]
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Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-infrared light. The nebula was first revealed in infrared light by a predecessor to Webb, NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space […]
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Students in New York will hear from NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 11, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. […]
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Italian rocket builder Avio announced on 6 March that it had secured a $65 million contract from US-based Defense Systems and Solutions for the development, qualification, and initial production of solid rocket motors. The announcement came just days after the company’s shareholders approved amendments to its bylaws aimed at streamlining its management structure, in part […]
The post Avio Lands $65 Million Deal Days After Shareholders Approve New Bylaws appeared first on European Spaceflight.
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Voyager Technologies is investing in Max Space to help accelerate a partnership between the two companies on developing lunar habitats.
The post Voyager Technologies invests in Max Space appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Modern society has become profoundly reliant on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). These systems support aviation safety, emergency services, finance, communications, energy networks and an expanding array of autonomous and industrial systems. Yet despite this reliance, GNSS remains inherently fragile: low‑power signals transmitted from medium Earth orbit are surprisingly easy to degrade, and the consequences […]
The post GNSS resilience is an economic and security priority appeared first on SpaceNews.
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SpaceX is pushing back the first launch of the latest version of Starship even as NASA is asking it to accelerate work on a lunar lander version of the vehicle.
The post First Starship V3 launch slips appeared first on SpaceNews.
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Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought two work colleagues — and “Nell.” They may not have known it at the time, but […]
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A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented orbiter mission to ice giant Neptune.
The post Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
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The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a Vega-C rocket between 8 April and 7 May.
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At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
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Firefly Aerospace is returning its Alpha launch vehicle to flight after a nearly 10-month stand…
The post Firefly Alpha FLTA007 “Stairway to Seven” ready for another launch attempt appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
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At ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), teams work around the clock to fly spacecraft across the Solar System and monitor Earth from orbit. Among them are women leading spacecraft operations, managing teams and helping shape the culture of ESA’s mission control.
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026
In classic Washington style, the United States has found a way to keep 'winning' the new Moon race even as its flagship program slips, bloats and mutates. With the latest Artemis overhaul, NASA isn't just re-planning a mission sequence - it's helping Trump's America quietly rewrite the rules of the game so that almost any outcome can be spun as victory.
Reported and summarised by SpaceDaily. Opens in a new tab.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026
NASA says it has finally found the 'back to basics' recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper, the Artemis overhaul looks like a sober course correction after years of drift. Look a little closer, though, and the same changes read like a managed soft-landing for a program that is structurally broken and
Reported and summarised by SpaceDaily. Opens in a new tab.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026
NASA says it has finally found the "back to basics" recipe to get Americans back on the Moon by 2028. A new intermediate mission, standardized hardware, a faster launch cadence: on paper, the Artemis overhaul looks like a sober course correction after years of drift.
Reported and summarised by SpaceDaily. Opens in a new tab.
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