Category: 2. Space

ST. LOUIS — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a reorientation of U.S. intelligence collection efforts toward border security and counternarcotics operations, describing it as “the biggest shift in collection…

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that is as…

ST. LOUIS – At the June NATO summit in the Netherlands, allies will outline specific capabilities to contribute to the alliance.

“It won’t just be a pledge,” UK Royal Marines Maj. Gen. Paul Lynch, NATO deputy assistant secretary…

Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling…

This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews.

This week we’re at the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis where we’ll post episodes Monday…

ST. LOUIS — British startup SatVu is proving that even a short-lived satellite mission can yield big business opportunities in the competitive remote-sensing sector. Despite the premature failure of its first thermal imaging satellite

Mars hosts various auroral processes despite the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and lack of a global magnetic field. To date, all aurora observations have been at ultraviolet wavelengths from orbit. In a new paper, planetary scientists describe…

WASHINGTON — Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close approach to Earth in less than four years.

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