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NASA Joins Artemis III Orion Modules; Rocket Hardware Update – NASA

NASA is advancing toward Artemis III’s crewed demonstration mission with accelerated, measurable progress across all fronts, outpacing Artemis II integration timelines as teams ready the Orion spacecraft and SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for next year’s mission in low Earth orbit. The Orion crew and service modules were joined together on July 30 inside the

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NASA’s Perseverance Captures Phobos and Earth – NASA Science

This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right, passing behind the Martian moon Phobos on July 2, 2026, 1,907th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The black background is the result of image

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NICER Cycle 9 Call For Proposals And Reviewers – NASA Science

The NICER team is pleased to solicit proposals for the NICER General Observer program for Cycle 9. The proposal submission deadline for Cycle 9 is 17 September 2026 at 4:30p Eastern (1:30p Pacific). The ROSES Announcement for Cycle 9 of the NICER General Observer program is available on NSPIRES. NOTE: Similarly to last year, Cycle

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APOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes on Saturn’s B Ring – NASA Science

Explanation: Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long, so two hours of observation covers quite a bit of its rotation. If you look closely, a ghoulish shadow appears and disappears

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The Paradox of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park – NASA Science

The coastal dune system in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in northeastern Brazil is among the most surreal landscapes on Earth. At first glance, the park looks like a desert, but it is far from it. This place receives about 125 centimeters (50 inches) of rain per year—slightly more than Seattle and double what falls in

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Coronagraph Systems – NASA Science

Roman’s Coronagraph Instrument demonstrates technology that blocks the glare from a host star’s light, allowing astronomers to directly image planets in orbit around other stars. Masks and Optics Coronagraph masks block most of the glare from stars to reveal faint orbiting planets and dusty debris disks. The mirrors and lenses are finely polished to minimize

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NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission – NASA Science

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do science. Nicknamed the “Big Bang,” the effort involved simultaneously turning off certain powered devices and substituting them with lower-power alternatives while ensuring the spacecraft remains warm enough to operate. The Voyagers get their power from radioisotope thermoelectric generators, devices that convert

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NASA’s Eyes software: July release notes – NASA Science

The Eyes team has many significant upgrades underway, but in the month of July we only updated our augmented reality mobile app Spacecraft AR and released it to the Google Play and Apple App stores. This update included mostly internal bug fixes and upgrades. If you are unfamiliar with the app, you can download and

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Thursday Spacewalk Preps Continue, Crew Installs Advanced Earth Imaging Gear – NASA

The Expedition 75 crew continued preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday to augment the International Space Station’s power system. The orbital residents also installed advanced Earth observation hardware, continued space exercise research, and kept up lab maintenance. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon, station commander and flight engineer respectively, worked throughout Tuesday configuring

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NASA Will Attempt to Observe Rocket Part’s Lunar Impact – NASA

Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger to Earth and NASA scientists are planning to collect lunar data from the event

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