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There are live briefings, virtual launch opportunities and even a planetary defense campaign.

L9_australia_large_release_nolabels.jpg Mangroves are prominent along the northwest coast of Australia. The first image collected by Landsat 9, on

Psyche spacecraft is being developed to explore 16 Psyche, a metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter planets.

Final_lucy_high-end-render_pira.jpg Artists illustration of the Lucy concept. Credits: Southwest Research Institute NASA will provide coverage of

/PRNewswire/ -- Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, an evaluation of technologies...

Dart_header.jpg Illustration of NASAs DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agencys (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system

NASA hands SpaceX contract for first mission to Jupiters moon Europa Published  article SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) launch services contract for the Earths first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Europa.  The "Europa Clipper" mission is set for October 2024 and NASA said in a Friday release that the spacecraft will launch on a Fal...

ULA is now able to compete to launch future NASA missions on its Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is currently in development. On April 15, NASA announced that it had awarded ULA a Launch Services (NLS) II contract.  The NLS II is a contract vehicle under which NASA places orders from commercial providers for launch services as part of its Launch Services Program (LSP). NASA has the option to annually on-ramp new launch service providers and also new launch vehicles from existing providers. NLS I...

Date Time NASA Adds Vulcan Centaur Launch Services to Launch Services Contract NASA has awarded a contract modification to United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to add Vulcan Centaur launch services to the company’s NASA Launch Services II (NLS II) contract, in accordance with the contracts on-ramp provision. The Vulcan Centaur launch service will be available to NASAs Launch Services Program to use for future missions in accordance with the on-ramp provision of NLS II. The NLS ...

Date Time NASA Awards Launch Service Contract for TROPICS Mission to Study Storm Processes NASA has selected Astra Space Inc. to provide a launch service for the agencys Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) mission. The TROPICS mission consists of a constellation of six CubeSats and will increase the scientific communitys understanding of storm processes. The launch service contract for the TROPICS mission is a fir...