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In accordance with an executive order, the joint SERVIR mission between NASA and The U.S. Agency for International Development is on pause through the end of April - NASA public affairs

NASA SERVIR page is gone.

For anyone who may be confused--yes, SpaceX is launching TWO lunar landers on Wed at 1:11 am ET. They're ridesharing the F9 launch. Otherwise unrelated. Firefly's Blue Ghost (part of NASA's CLPS) and ispace's SMBC x HAKUTO-R with the Resilience lander and Tenacious micro-rover.

NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies - NASA NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concepts to transform future missions for the benefit

NASA is out with its 2025 NIAC awards:
www.nasa.gov/news-release...
15 this year.

A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is increasing as the amount of debris in orbit around the Earth grows dramatically.

A Half-Ton Piece of #Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya.

No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a #launch #rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is increasing as the amount of #debris in orbit around the Earth grows dramatically.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/w...

How Space Legislation Fared in the 118th Congress and a Look Ahead spacepolicyonline.com/news/how-spa...

I’m writing about NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, since Project 2025 says NOAA “should be broken up and downsized.” Reach out on Signal.

Aditya-L1: Why India's latest Sun mission finding is crucial for the world Indian scientists have reported Aditya-L1's “first significant result”. What is it and why is it significant?

Data from Aditya-L1, India’s first solar-observation mission, has allowed researchers to estimate the precise time of a coronal mass ejection (CME), the expulsion of a huge fireball of charged particles from the sun’s corona. www.bbc.com/news/article...

LAUNCH at 0810 UTC Nov 30 of 20 Starlinks and an unknown number of NRO Starshield sats on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg to a 70.0 deg orbit.

LAUNCH of the Kondor-FKA No. 2 radar satellite at 2150 UTC Nov 29 by Soyuz from Vostochniy

NASA Provides More Details to Congress about VIPER Decision spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-pr...

We're just over an hour away from the first launch of the new Long March 12 rocket from a new commercial spaceport at Wenchang, Hainan. A couple of livestream options here:
live.bilibili.com/3419899
live.bilibili.com/23118988?liv...

Four astronauts with their ride to the moon 🚀🌖

China launches first Long March 12 from new commercial spaceport in boost for country’s lunar plans HELSINKI — China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space. The tw…

China launches first Long March 12 from new commercial spaceport in boost for country’s lunar plans
spacenews.com/china-launch...

Space Force has cataloged object 60058 / 2024-48D in an orbit near the Moon - it is likely DRO-B, and is in a similar orbit to 59228 / 2024-48A DRO-A. They were launched in March. May be a sign that USSF is upping its game on tracking cislunar objects - which is good news

The two Guangchuan payloads from the Zhuque-2E launch have been cataloged in a 304 x 499 km x 50.0 deg orbit. The upper stage made a depletion burn to a 187 x 628 km orbit.

LAUNCH at 1425 UTC Nov 30 of the first Chang Zheng 12, the first launch from the new Hainan Commercial Launch Site. Two internet test satellites were aboard.