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In a carefully choreographed final sequence, ESA has officially ended operations of its Gaia spacecraft; “We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us,” - Uwe Lammers, Gaia Mission Manager.
On March 3, NASA made history when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to successfully acquire and track Earth-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals on the Moon’s surface.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage from a recent Starlink mission has reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over Europe.
Newly Released Image Captured by Onboard Camera Shows Earth from High-Energy Orbit as the X-37B Conducts Groundbreaking Aerobraking Maneuvers
Firefly Aerospace is preparing for a historic lunar landing, with its Blue Ghost lander targeting touchdown no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to navigate the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus to date; this historic gravity-assist maneuver will bring the spacecraft within just 379 kilometers (235 miles) of the planet’s surface—closer than the altitude of the International Space Station above Earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, a potential "city killer" asteroid has been discovered and early risk assessments have revealed a 1.9% chance that it could collide with Earth on December 22, 2032; raising concerns among scientists and planetary defense experts worldwide.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has confirmed that its recently launched NVS-02 navigation satellite has encountered a major propulsion system failure, leaving it stranded in an elliptical transfer orbit and at risk of reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a successor to Hubble is a revolutionary tool for space exploration, but it faces a significant funding challenge that could curtail its scientific productivity starting this fall.
The International Space Station (ISS) got a slight speed boost, courtesy of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft, a historic first for the orbital laboratory.
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