Space Agency News

NASA:

  • Johnson Celebrates AA and NHPI Heritage Month: Kimia Seyedmadani
    by Linda E. Grimm on May 8, 2024 at 2:00 pm

    A quest for innovative ideas and development processes led biomedical engineer Kimia Seyedmadani to NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) in 2018. After working for several years to design and develop cutting-edge medical devices, Seyedmadani became frustrated with resistance to innovative ideas and  the regulatory processes with respect to a treatment for pancreatic cancer. “I got

  • White Sands Propulsion Team Tests 3D-Printed Orion Engine Component
    by Linda E. Grimm on May 7, 2024 at 4:05 pm

    When the Orion spacecraft carries the first Artemis crews to the Moon and back, it will rely on the European Service Module contributed by ESA (European Space Agency) to make the journey. The service module provides electrical power generation, propulsion, temperature control, and consumable storage for Orion, up to the moment it separates from the

  • Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals
    by Tiernan P. Doyle on May 3, 2024 at 6:47 pm

    President Joe Biden will present Dr. Ellen Ochoa, former center director and astronaut at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Dr. Jane Rigby, senior project scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, each with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Friday in a ceremony at the White House in Washington. The Presidential Medal of

CSA:

  • Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test: Joshua Kutryk takes the helm as capcom
    by Canadian Space Agency on May 3, 2024 at 5:17 pm

    CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk will be the capcom for the ascent and orbital insertion of NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), and for the atmospheric re-entry and landing. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will lift off no earlier than May 6 at 10:34 p.m. ET atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida . They will stay aboard the Space Station for about a week before coming back to Earth.

  • Ten fascinating Webb discoveries that Canada has helped make
    by Canadian Space Agency on May 2, 2024 at 2:45 pm

    On December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space. During its one-month journey to its destination, its mobile parts were deployed one by one. Then, Webb settled its temperature and fine-tuned its tools. Six months later, the science party started! With Canada's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument and researchers involved, Webb is changing how we understand space. Discover some of this powerful telescope's amazing findings in which Canada played a key role.

  • CSA awards $5M in grants to enable the development of Earth observation applications
    by Canadian Space Agency on May 1, 2024 at 5:17 pm

    The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is committed to enhancing the capacities and expertise of Canada's academia in the use and application of satellite data. To enable this, the CSA recently allocated $5M in grants over 3 years to support post-secondary institutions in the development of Earth observation (EO) applications that will address climate change, a priority for Canada. Awarded through the CSA's smartEarth funding initiative, these grants allow academia to be equipped with resources, to collaborate with national and international partners, and to train new highly qualified personnel (HQP).

CNSA:

ESA:

  • Webb hints at atmosphere around rocky exoplanet
    on May 8, 2024 at 3:00 pm

    Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of a rocky planet atmosphere outside our Solar System.

  • Where space weather starts
    on May 8, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Image: Where space weather starts

  • Space Team Europe for Ariane 6: Aline Decadi
    on May 8, 2024 at 10:00 am

    Video: 00:03:47 They say it takes a village to raise a child. To launch a rocket, we have the combined expertise and passion of Space Team Europe. Aline Decadi is one of many making the first Ariane 6 launch possible and has been interviewed as part of a series highlighting some of the people that make up this dream team.Working for ESA, Aline Decadi is Launch System Dependability and Safety Lead engineer on Ariane 6 meaning her role is to predict what could go wrong at any moment to protect the people working at Europe’s Spaceport. Passionate about space with an international career in spacecraft and rockets, Aline is also a happy motorcyclist.Stay tuned for more from #SpaceTeamEurope: an ESA space community engagement initiative to gather European space actors under the same umbrella sharing values of leadership, autonomy, and responsibility.Find more videos from Space Team Europe.

JAXA:

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