Norbert_R 🦣🐘17h ago

#NASA plans to send a #nuclear-powered #spacecraft to #Mars in 2028 | Science | AAAS

By Paul Voosen

NASA will seek to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in December 2028 to deploy three helicopters to scout the surface, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, announced today. Such a mission, he said, will “unlock the capabilities necessary for sustained exploration beyond the Moon and missions to Mars and the outer Solar System.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-plans-send-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-mars-2028

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ABC Feeds1d ago

NASA plans moon base instead of orbiting space station

NASA has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead build a $28.7 billion base on the moon's surface.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-25/nasa-swaps-space-station-moon-base-mars-nuclear-power/106495538

#SpaceExploration #Spacecraft #TheMoon #Space

NASA plans moon base instead of orbiting space station

NASA has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead build a $28.7 billion base on the moon's surface.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬1d ago
#NASA Adds #MoonBase and #Nuclear-Powered #Mars #Spacecraft to Road Map
The agency announced the more specific plans and timelines after years of suggesting it may build a lunar outpost.
Lunar plans announced week before NASA hopes to launch #astronauts around #moon and back for first time since end of its Apollo program in 1972. Second mission in #Artemis, program to send astronauts back to the moon announced during first Trump administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/science/nasa-moon-base-mars-spacecraft.html
https://archive.ph/nTZeO
NASA Sets Out New Plans and Timelines for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

The New York Times
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business1d ago

The Trip to the Far Side of the Moon

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-trip-to-the-far-side-of-the-moon-nasa-artemis/

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨2d ago

🚀💥 When a #space mission ends, scientists often choose to smash the probe into a planet instead of letting it drift. This destruction protects potentially habitable #moons from #bacteria and allows the #spacecraft to collect #data during its final descent.

👉 https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/spacecraft-crash-into-planets

#NASA #ESA #planets #science #astronomy #engineering #exploration

We humans love smashing our spacecraft into planets. These are the times we got amazing science from complete destruction | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Many space missions have been crashed into Solar System worlds on purpose. Here's why we do it, and the science we get from the destruction.

BBC Sky at Night Magazine
BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻2d ago

Clean up on aisle 7! Interesting idea - who will pay the bill?

US based Portal Space Systems and Australian startup Paladin Space are combing forces to create and launch a scalable, commercial space debris clean-up service.

Paladin’s supplies their Triton debris identification and capture system with Portal provides its maneuverable Starburst spacecraft. Target launch = Q2 2027. https://www.inc.com/chloe-aiello/these-two-startups-are-teaming-up-to-prevent-a-pearl-harbor-moment-in-space/91318935

#Portal #Paladin #Triton #Space #SpaceJunk #LEO #Starburst #SpaceCraft #SpaceDebris

N-gated Hacker News3d ago
Oh wow, #Europe found their long-lost #spacecraft, but apparently forgot how to maintain a functional #website 🤦‍♂️! Maybe they should stick to finding space stuff and leave the #internet to the #pros 💻🚀.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-miracle-europe-reconnects-lost-spacecraft.html #Discovery #Issues #HackerNews #ngated
'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 mission, after losing contact with the satellite a month ago.

Phys.org
Hacker News3d ago

'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-miracle-europe-reconnects-lost-spacecraft.html

#HackerNews #Miracle #Europe #reconnects #lost #spacecraft #space #exploration #space #news #technology #breakthroughs #astronomy

'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 mission, after losing contact with the satellite a month ago.

Phys.org
Zorz Studios4d ago

Blue Ghost #spacecraft captures sunrise from its position on the Moon: https://zorz.it/IKsHH

#MattGrowcoot #BlueGhost #FireflyAerospace #LunarLander #GhostRiders #space #Moon #technology #sunrise

ABC Feeds5d ago

Earth's low orbit is becoming cluttered with high-velocity space junk
By Gavin McGrath

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk, and it's becoming a real problem.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-21/space-junk-satellites-low-orbit/106468774

#Satellites #Space #Spacecraft #Pollution #GavinMcGrath

Earth's low orbit is becoming cluttered with high-velocity space junk

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk, and it's becoming a real problem.