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NASA SBIR Program Review: How Small Business Grants Reach Space
The National Academies of Sciences formally concluded that NASA's SBIR and STTR small business grant programs are structurally sound and a proven pathway for commercializing space technology — a rigorous endorsement most taxpayers have never heard of.Caltech’s DSA-2000: 1,650-Dish Nevada Radio Telescope Explained
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New research reveals heat waves account for 42% of all wildfire-burned area in the western U.S. despite occurring on only 12–15% of warm-season days—and that rising heat wave frequency since 2001 is responsible for 37% more burned forest than would otherwise exist.NASA Aeolus Mars Mission 2028: Relativity Space to Launch Wind-Mapping Probe
NASA and Relativity Space have signed a Space Act Agreement to send the Aeolus atmospheric science payload to Mars orbit by 2028, where it will make the first direct measurements of Martian wind velocities from space. Relativity Space will supply the spacecraft, launch vehicle, and mission operations using its 3D-printed Terran R rocket.Lucy Mission Finds Peanut Asteroid Donaldjohanson Wobbling Unpredictably
When NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past peanut-shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson in 2025, it detected a complex, multi-axis wobble that existing rotational models failed to predict — forcing scientists to reconsider how contact binary asteroids behave in space.Load More