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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft reached a major milestone Friday, June 12, flying Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet, the conditions required for the aircraft to make future flights…

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Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning day: Friday,…

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By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, May 29, 2026…

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NASA�s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, payload is shown in this May 26, 2023, photo at Space Dynamics Laboratory facilities on Utah State University�s Innovation Campus with its red remove-before-flight covers installed.

AWE

Atmospheric Wave Experiment

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory

An image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showing the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The comet is a small white dot in the center of the image, with a light blue halo of light that takes up most of the image. Other stars are shown streaking across the image as diagonal blue-white lines.

Comet 3I/ATLAS

DART Launches

DART

Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Dragonfly on the ground

Dragonfly

An animation showing Mars against a black background. Two spacecraft � like short gray cyclinders with flat panels on the right and left � orbit the planet.

ESCAPADE

Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers

Artist�s rendering of NASA�s Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Europa Clipper

Art's representation of three EZIE spacecraft in space. Positioned above Earth, the EZIE spacecraft have brown beams directed at green aurora's to study space weather.

EZIE

Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer

Cropped image of the helio connects banner depicting the sun

GDC

Geospace Dynamics Constellation

GOES West full disk image of the Earth half in day light and half in darkness.

GOES

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites

Image of the Sun against the darkness of space

Heliophysics Research Centers

Concept image showing a close-up of the Gateway lunar space station with the HERMES instrument in the foreground and the Orion spacecraft in the background.

HERMES

Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite

An artist�s rendering of the ICESat-2 satellite with a solar panel coming off to the right and lasers beaming to the Earth which curves across the bottom of the screen.

ICESat-2

Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2

ICON

Ionospheric Connection Explorer

IMAP

Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe

Colorful composite image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, showing bright filaments of blue, purple, orange, and yellow gas and dust against a star-filled black background.

IXPE

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

artist's concept of JWST

James Webb Space Telescope

Janus artist's concept

Janus

Landsat 9 orbiting over the earth.

Landsat 9

Lucy

This poster highlights the JPL cubesat missions. NASA's CubeSat Programs provide opportunities for small satellite systems to fly as auxiliary payloads on planned missions.

LunaH-Map

Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper

Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, and it will pinpoint the locations of micro-cold traps less than a football field in size.

Lunar Trailblazer

NASA's InSight lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, or in its second selfie, taken in March and April of 2019.

Mars InSight

This image shows an artist concept of NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MAVEN mission.

MAVEN

Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution

MUSE will study solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.

MUSE

Multi-slit Solar Explorer

A silver, wedge-shaped spacecraft with a black telescope on the front, hovers against the darkness of space.

NEO Surveyor

Near-Earth Object Surveyor

Instrument scientist Dennis Reuter answers questions about Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, and the Ralph infrared and visible spectrometer.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.

New Horizons

An artist's rendering of the NISAR satellite in orbit with its large reflector antenna fully deployed. A long boom connects the main satellite body, which has solar panels, to the massive, circular, fine-mesh antenna. The satellite is pictured high above the curved horizon of the Earth, which shows mountainous terrain and has a pink and purple atmospheric glow.

NISAR

NASA-ISRO SAR

Under a partly cloudy sky, in a meadow area dotted with scraggly pines, a team of four researchers focuses on their gear. Dr. Miller, in the red hat, stands near a cluster of three yellow poles, chin-high, used for research.

Notes from the Field

artist rendering of OCO-2

OCO-2

Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2

The image is zoomed in on Earth's globe, which takes up the entirety of the frame. In front of it hovers a metal box with wings.

OSIRIS-APEX

Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Apophis Explorer

Project Scientist Jason Dworkin discusses the OSIRIS-REx mission to explore asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth.View transcript.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.

OSIRIS-REX

Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer

PACE rendering.

PACE

Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem

NASA's Parker Solar Probe -- with its heat shield facing forward and twin solar panels partially extended -- flies through particles in space.

Parker Solar Probe

This illustration shows NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021.

Perseverance Mars Rover

Seal shows a guard in a castle turret using a telescope to watch out for asteroids and comets in the sky.

Planetary Defense

Three people, wearing large backpacks, trek across a snow field between hills of dark rubble. In the background: steep, snow-covered mountains under a blue sky.

Planetary Expeditions

This illustration, updated in April 2022, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.

Psyche

The Earth fills the left side of the image. Above it, four satellites in a line can be seen. In the background, the bright Sun shines.

PUNCH

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere

Image shows the Earth in the background while NASA's Sentinel-6B spacecraft outlined in gold separates from SpaceX second stage.

Sentinel-6/ Jason-CS

Continuity of Service

An ultraviolet image of the Sun shows a surface scattered with darker and brighter regions, and the bright flash of a solar flare near the center of the Sun

Solar Cycle 25

Concepto artístico de la nave espacial Solar Orbiter de la ESA. La misión Solar Orbiter de la ESA observará el Sol desde la órbita de Mercurio en su aproximación más cercana.Créditos: ESA/ATG medialab

Solar Orbiter

An artist's rendering shows a small spacecraft in orbit around Earth.

SPHEREx

Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer

A composite image of star cluster NGC 602 nicknamed the 'Cosmic Wreath,' combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope. The image shows a striking ring-like formation of colorful gas and dust (in orange, yellow, green, and blue) resembling a wreath, captured by Webb. At the center and throughout the wreath are bright red spots representing X-ray emissions detected by Chandra, showing hot, young massive stars powering intense stellar winds. The cluster appears set against a backdrop of countless stars and distant galaxies. Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud about 200,000 light-years from Earth, this star-forming region contains stars with fewer heavy elements than our Sun, mimicking conditions from the early universe and providing insights into cosmic evolution before our own solar system formed.

Stellar Achievements

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Six identical CubeSats arranged in a semi-circle on a reflective blue surface, with their solar panels deployed. Each small, boxy satellite is mounted on a black stand. The background is a smooth, light-colored wall, illuminated with a warm, bright light from the upper right, mimicking a sunrise.

SunRISE

Photo of a scientific balloon inflating at Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, on Tuesday, May 17

Super Pressure Balloon

artist rendering of SWOT

SWOT

Surface Water and Ocean Topography

Artist concept of TESS satellite

TESS

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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An illustration of the Sun interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere.

The Sun Spot

An illustration showing the 2 TRACERS spacecraft. Filling the bottom half of the landscape image is a cloudy Earth. Behind Earth, the bright Sun is peaking out, filling the dark expanse of space with streaks of white light. The two spacecraft orbit above Earth, large hexagonal cylinders with long poles sticking out horizontally in 4 directions.

TRACERS

Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites

A round gold plate featuring diagrams that explain how to play a phonograph record and the location of Earth.

Voyager

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