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What is NASA's Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy?



Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2025
Astronauts living and working on the Moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating satellite communications will allow explorers to focus on critical tasks instead of manually operating satellites. Long duration space missions will require teaming between systems on Earth and other planets. Satellites orbiting the Moon, Mars, or other distant areas face communications delays with ground ope ... read more

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MOON DAILY
US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97
Washington (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars
Washington (AFP) Aug 5, 2025
The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA administrator seeks plan to place nuclear reactor on moon
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025
Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator and secretary of transportation, wants to fast-track putting a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to a directive he sent out Thursday. ... more
MOON DAILY
China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
China has successfully carried out its first integrated landing and takeoff trial of a crewed lunar lander, marking a milestone in its manned lunar exploration program. The test took place Wednesday ... more
MOON DAILY
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies at 97
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 8, 2025
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois, his family announced. He was 97. ... more
ROBO SPACE
Training robots for planetary missions from Earth orbit
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 06, 2025
This summer, astronauts aboard the International Space Station directed a team of advanced robots through a simulated martian terrain in Germany, concluding the fourth and final session of ESA and D ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Intuitive Machines wins funding to advance orbital logistics vehicle
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Intuitive Machines has secured a $9.8 million government contract to progress its Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) through Critical Design Review, the final engineering phase before manufacturing begi ... more
TECTONICS
Early Earth may have had active plate tectonics far sooner than thought
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Researchers investigating the Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to 4.0 billion years ago, have uncovered signs that plate tectonics began far earlier than widely assumed. The era started with Earth' ... more

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MOON DAILY
Lunar rover tire collaboration aims for deployment by 2029
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
ispace, inc. has signed an agreement with Bridgestone Corporation to jointly develop and evaluate tires for future small and medium-sized lunar rovers. The initiative aims to accelerate practical de ... more
MOON DAILY
China allocates fresh batch of lunar samples to domestic research institutions
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
China has approved the ninth round of lunar sample lending applications, distributing over 30 grams of moon material to 32 research teams across 25 institutions. These samples, retrieved by the Chan ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends without mapping moon
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 4, 2025
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon ended in failure after the government agency lost contact with the spacecraft one day after the launch in February and never regained communication despite extensive efforts. ... more
MOON DAILY
Mapping lunar landscapes begins in Norway's fjords
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Alone in a secluded Norwegian fjord, three astronaut trainees pore over scientific plans crafted with lunar exploration in mind. Before stepping into the rugged terrain, they consult a tablet brimmi ... more
MOON DAILY
Moonquake hazards raise concern for future long-term lunar missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
A new study has identified moonquakes-not meteor strikes-as the primary cause of surface disturbances in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the Apollo 17 landing site. The research suggests that ground shak ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA picks Firefly Aerospace for ambitious 2029 lunar rover and instrument delivery
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver two rovers and three instruments to the Moon's South Pole region ... more
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MOON DAILY
NASA readying for crewed Artemis II moon flight
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 30, 2025
NASA is preparing for its April 2026 Artemis II 10-day mission that will send a crew of four around the moon to prepare for future crewed moon landings. ... more
MOON DAILY
Team led by MDA Space to define future of Canadian lunar vehicle program
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to lead a key early-phase study for Canada's proposed Lunar Utility Vehicle (LUV), the company announced. The effort wi ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
A Chinese research team has created a prototype machine that transforms moon soil into durable construction bricks using solar energy, marking a critical step toward building lunar structures from l ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce
Washington (AFP) July 26, 2025
The US space agency NASA will lose about 3,900 employees under Donald Trump's sweeping effort to trim the federal workforce - at the same time as the president prioritizes plans for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA: Senegal is 56th country to sign Artemis Accords
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 25, 2025
Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced Friday. ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar habitat module project advances under Thales Alenia Space and ASI agreement
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to carry out the preliminary design and technology development for the Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH) module, set to bec ... more
MOON DAILY
Sidus Space debuts LunarLizzie 800kg lunar platform built for real time AI terrain intelligence
Merritt Island FL (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Sidus Space has introduced LunarLizzie, its most advanced 800kg-class spacecraft engineered specifically for lunar and cislunar missions. Equipped with onboard AI, LiDAR, and hyperspectral imaging, ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon erosion by solar wind far less than expected finds lunar rock study
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
The Moon's fragile exosphere, a sparse envelope of gas surrounding the lunar body, is mainly generated by interactions between the Moon's surface and external forces. Until now, scientists believed ... more
MOON DAILY
Young magmas on the came from much shallower depths
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
New research on the rocks collected by China's Chang'e 5 mission is rewriting our understanding of how the moon cooled. Stephen Elardo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Geological Sciences with the ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon erosion by solar wind far weaker than previously believed
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
The surface of the Moon is constantly exposed to the solar wind-a stream of charged particles from the Sun that can dislodge atoms from the lunar surface and contribute to its thin exosphere. Howeve ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Lunar soil shows promise for in-situ oxygen and fuel production
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
Scientists have developed a new method to extract water from lunar soil and use it to generate oxygen and fuel, offering a potential path toward sustainable life-support systems on the Moon. The tec ... more
MOON DAILY
UCF researchers developing new methods to passively mitigate lunar dust for space exploration
Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
Lunar dust is more than a mild irritant or hallmark of an untidy room like dust found on Earth. Lunar dust particles are sharp and abrasive due to the lack of atmosphere gradually dulling thei ... more
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Juice radar shows lunar mapping success in Apollo Earthrise region
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
When ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) performed a lunar flyby in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) captured its first radargram by listening to radio echoes bouncing off ... more
MOON DAILY
Pope calls Buzz Aldrin to mark 1969 moon landing
Castel Gandolfo, Italy (AFP) July 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark the 56th anniversary of man's first moon landing. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Electrolyzer experiment from SwRI and UTSA to fly in low gravity test mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2025
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have secured $500,000 in funding from NASA's TechLeap Prize initiative to conduct a parabolic flight test of a n ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA selects science payloads for Artemis lunar exploration rover
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
NASA has chosen three scientific instruments to support Artemis lunar exploration, assigning two for use on the upcoming Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) and reserving one for a future Moon-orbiting miss ... more
MOON DAILY
Chang'e-6 mission reveals ancient volcanic and magnetic secrets from Moon's farside
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
The Moon's near and far sides differ dramatically in terrain, crust, and volcanic history-a mystery that has long perplexed scientists. This disparity is now better understood thanks to China's Chan ... more
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