Week in images: 06-10 January 2025 Discover our week through the lens

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As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration. A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments...

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Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the...

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LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at...

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Image: Five wildfires are still currently burning (as of 10 January) in areas of north Los Angeles. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 9 January 2025, shows the Palisades and the Eaton fires, with smoke seen...

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As geopolitical tensions escalate and new technologies reshape the nature of defense, the threat to the critical infrastructure we maintain in space is growing at an unprecedented pace. The changing […] The post A vision for better MilSatCom in...

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ESA is starting 2025 with a budget slightly less than in 2024 as it finalizes a package of programs that will likely require major budget increases. The post ESA budget dips slightly in 2025 appeared first on SpaceNews.

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are...

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The launch marks the seventh deployment in the NRO's new "proliferated architecture" strategy, which emphasizes smaller, distributed satellite networks The post SpaceX launches NROL-153, expanding U.S. spy satellite constellation   appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic collision and the potential for oceans in the outer solar system.

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On Wednesday, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams joined fellow astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit at the ISS to share more details about their lives in space.

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The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been closed down and evacuated as the Eaton Fire continues to burn, at its closest, less than one mile away from the facility. The post NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated due to LA...

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On Wednesday, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams joined fellow astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit at the ISS to share more details about their lives in space.

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Rubicon Space Systems delivered the ASCENT propulsion system for NASA Green Propellant Dual Mode mission. The post Rubicon delivers propulsion for NASA dual-mode mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

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The Space Development Agency that oversees the program has emphasized the adoption of open standards for interoperability The post U.S. military satellites achieve first cross-vendor laser communications link appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attended in-person. Represented among the attendees were...

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Countries must unite to include space stewardship in the United Nations’ sustainable development goals to address an escalating threat of orbital debris, an international group of scientists and other experts warned. The post Researchers propose UN goal to curb...

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On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Daniel Brandenstein, Pilot James Wetherbee, and Mission Specialists Bonnie Dunbar, Marsha Ivins,...

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The Netherlands and other U.S. allies are seeking to leverage commercial space services The post Dutch military signs satellite intelligence deal with Maxar  appeared first on SpaceNews.

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What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flight history...

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