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Founded year: 1958
Company type: Government agency
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In short: NASA announced the Artemis III crew and successfully completed the first supersonic flight of the experimental X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft.

Company announcements

June 22 NASA

NASA will launch a sounding rocket carrying student experiments

The RockSatX and RockOn programs combine nearly 250 participants from 38 teams on one rocket.

June 22 NASA

NASA's Chandra finds possible supernova remnant in Milky Way center

If confirmed, it would be one of the closest supernova remnants to the galactic center, supplying elements crucial for life.

June 18 NASA

NASA observes strengthening El Niño in June 2026

Satellite data shows higher sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific, indicating continued warming and potential global impacts.

June 17 NASA

NASA announces public-private partnership to advance Mars science

Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus instrument suite while Relativity Space supplies the spacecraft and rocket to deliver it to Mars.

Media coverage

Yesterday Gizmodo

NASA's Moon Plan Depends on 15 Starship Launches. There's Just One Problem

Drastically increased launch cadence from SpaceX and NASA's other commercial partners is straining aging infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center, a new report finds.

Yesterday Smithsonian Magazine

This Week, NASA Will Launch a First-of-Its-Kind Mission to Save a Space Telescope That Has Observed the Sky for Nearly 22 Years

In 2024, researchers realized that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was falling from its orbit faster than expected. Now, a robotic spacecraft called LINK aims...

Yesterday MSN

NASA's $169 billion space station is being sent to die in the Pacific

NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by sending it into a controlled fall over the South Pacific in 2031. The aging station weighs...

Yesterday Spaceflight Now

NASA, Boeing committed to Stariner-1 launch despite unclear timeline – Spaceflig...

More than four months after NASA released a report classifying the 2024 Crew Flight Test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as a Type A mishap...

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