What’s Happening in Space Policy March 9-16, 2025
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of March 9-16, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate […].
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US Space Force X-37B Secert Spaceplane Returns to Earth After 434 Days in Space
US Space Force X-37B Secert Spaceplane Returns to Earth After 434 Days in Space.
Tracking DOGE’s impact on space and the federal workforce
The White House and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency have spent the first weeks of Donald Trump’s new administration looking to reduce the number of federal workers and […] The post Tracking DOGE’s impact on space and the federal workforce appeared first on SpaceNews..
NASA, SpaceX to launch SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH heliophysics mission from California
SpaceX and NASA are set for the launch of the agency’s newest space telescope and… The post NASA, SpaceX to launch SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH heliophysics mission from California appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com..
Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284
A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow pink in infrared light, and clouds of gas and dust, […].
Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar
Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […].
Hubble Spies a Spectacular Starburst Galaxy
Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may seem a little unusual, and that’s because it’s what’s known as an “intermediate galaxy”: not quite a barred spiral, but not exactly an unbarred […].
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
An open cluster of stars shines through misty, cocoon-like gas clouds in this Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 460. NGC 460 is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This particular region contains a number of young star clusters and nebulae of different sizes […].
Fuel leak blamed for Falcon 9 booster loss after landing
A Falcon 9 booster that was destroyed after landing March 2 suffered a fuel leak during its flight that triggered a fire. The post Fuel leak blamed for Falcon 9 booster loss after landing appeared first on SpaceNews..
X-37B Back Home from 7th Mission
DOD’s X-37B spaceplane is back on Earth tonight after 434 days in space. The Boeing-built vehicle landed at 2:22 am ET this morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, a […].