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NASA’s SunRISE Mission Changes Launch Vehicle to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
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NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency’s Kennedy…

Jul 13, 2026
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NASA CubeSat to Speed Technology Testing in Orbit
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The R5-S9 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 9) CubeSat, developed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, lifted…

Jul 10, 2026
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NASA Small Satellite Could Make Global Positioning More Precise
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GRITSS will demonstrate the feasibility of a new technique for improving precision navigation and geodetic measurements.

Jul 9, 2026
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NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Science Missions
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NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and…

Jun 25, 2026
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NASA Wideband Demo Completes Primary Mission, Extends Operations  
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NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT), designed to enable interoperability between satellite relay networks, has completed its planned technology demonstration. Given…

Jun 1, 2026
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Amendment 56: D.6 APRA and D.7 SAT Final Text and Due Dates
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D.6 Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program (APRA) solicits basic research proposals for investigations that are relevant to NASA’s programs in…

May 8, 2026
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NASA CubeSats Advance Space Weather, Tech Research
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Editor’s note: The article has been updated to reflect who developed AEPEX Several NASA science and technology payloads launched in…

Apr 17, 2026
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NASA CubeSat Begins Mission to Study Radio Waves in Space
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Editor’s Note: This post was updated April 21, 2026, to reflect mission funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation. NASA’s…

Apr 16, 2026
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SPARCS CubeSat ‘First Light’ Images
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Description This pair of images shows stars observed by the SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat) space telescope simultaneously in the…

Mar 16, 2026
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PREFIRE CubeSat in Earth Orbit (Artist’s Concept)

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NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts

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NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch

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Cosmic Structure SIG Seminar, 17 July 2026

Artist’s concept of a scene during the Era of Reionization: Scattered across the black background are many small points of orange-yellow light. In the center is the largest orange-yellow orb, with its brightness illuminating its close surroundings. Purple clumpy material stretches across the scene, resembling a tangled spiderweb. It is densest surrounding the central orange-yellow light and becomes sparser toward the edges of the frame.

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Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy called Trumpler 14.