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05.15.2013 NASA’s NRO-Donated Spy Satellite Telescope Could be Next Mars Orbiter
NASA is currently mulling potential uses for the two spy satellite telescopes that it received as a donation from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last year....
05.02.2013 NASA/JPL Selects ITT Exelis to Supply Antennas for COSMIC-2 Program
[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected ITT Exelist to provide specialized antennas for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate-2 (COSMIC-2)...
04.17.2013 NASA Selects UC Berkeley to Build Next Space Weather Satellite
NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to study how the Earth's weather affects the weather at the edge of space....
04.16.2013 NASA Unveils Asteroid Retrieval Initiative
NASA has unveiled its plans to develop the technology and infrastructure to retrieve asteroids for human research....
04.11.2013 GoreSat to be Refurbished and Launched by 2014
The Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request presented this week included a proposal to pursue an environmental satellite championed by Al Gore....
04.08.2013 NASA to Invest $200 Million in Exoplanet Survey Satellite
NASA has announced a $200 million grant to fund the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project....
03.25.2013 New Space Innovation Center to Help Government Agencies 'Launch' Future Space Missions
The EDGE Innovation Network has announced the opening of its new EDGE Space Innovation Center. This marks the 13th and newest center, housed within the General Dynamics' Seabrook, Md., facility; less than two miles from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md....
03.01.2013 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Succeeds Despite Dragon Capsule Issues
[Satellite TODAY 03-01-13] SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket passed an important test on Friday, when it successfully carried the company’s unmanned Dragon capsule into orbit. But an anomaly on the capsule’s maneuvering thrusters was detected nine...
02.19.2013 Launch Date Announced for Next SpaceX Dragon Resupply Mission
NASA has announced the next commercial cargo resupply mission will take off on March 1....
02.13.2013 Orbiting Satellites Safe as Near-Earth Asteroid Approaches
Scientists monitoring Asteroid 2012 DA14, which will pass closer to Earth on Friday than any other known object of its size, have ruled out it could pose any threat to orbiting satellites....
01.24.2013 Atlas V Rocket Defect Causes NASA Satellite Launch to be Delayed
The launch of NASA’s next Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-K) has been delayed because of a rocket part needs to be replaced....
01.11.2013 NASA Sets TDRS-K Satellite Launch Date
[Satellite TODAY 01-11-13] NASA’s Office of Space Communications and Navigation Program will launch its latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Project spacecraft at the end of the month, sending the first of three next-generation satellites...
01.10.2013 Lockheed Martin Delivers Core Structure for Next-Gen GOES Satellite
Lockheed Martin announced that the core structure for NOAA's first next-generation geostationary weather satellite has been delivered at NASA's Stennis Space Center for propulsion system integration....
01.09.2013 Using Kepler Satellite Data Astronomers Might Have Discovered More Than 400 New Planets
Using data from NASA’s Kepler satellite, astronomers have identified possible evidence for 461 new planets outside our solar system....
01.01.2013 The Obama Second Term and Space Policy
The re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama for a second four-year term in a bitterly polarized political climate and era of crisis-level budget deficits can fairly be seen to promise a continuation of the status quo in U.S. Government space policy. That...
12.26.2012 Eighth Landsat Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg
[Satellite TODAY 12-26-12] NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite has arrived at its California launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation for its launch in early February, the agency announced Dec...
12.19.2012 NASA Next-Generation Communication Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral
The next NASA communications satellite TDRS-K has arrived to Cape Canaveral to get ready for its launch scheduled for Jan. 29....
10.26.2012 U.S. Air Force to Update Space-Debris Tracking Program
With an investment of $3.5 billion, the U.S. Air Force is looking for a new upgrading contract for its Space Fence program....
10.25.2012 ICESat's Data Used in Antarctica's Growth Study
A new study from NASA has found that the Antarctic surface has been growing for the past 30 years....
10.24.2012 Program Uses Space-Based Telescopes to Track Deadly Radiation
Scientists have developed a new program to track radiation levels that can be dangerous for astronauts....
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