Earth from Space: Desert cropland
These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show agricultural development in the desert of southern Egypt, close to the border with Sudan.Egypt is over 95% desert, making a very small proportion of its land ...
House Appropriations Committee...
The House Appropriations Committee on June 24 advanced a fiscal 2027 defense appropriations bill providing $1.07 trillion for the Pentagon, a $234 billion increase over enacted 2026 funding. For the ...
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via a chain of waterways. Its surface often appears dark, but each spring and summer it transforms ...
Crew Works Eye Exams, DNA Sequencing,...
Life science topped the research schedule on Thursday as the Expedition 74 crew studied how space affects vision and sequenced DNA collected from microbes. More spacesuit preparations, a virtual ...
Expedition 73 Crew Reflects on...
On June 16, astronauts and cosmonauts gathered at Space Center Houston to share stories from their missions aboard the International Space Station and recognize the teamwork and people on the ground ...
Canceled NASA exploration projects...
Four NASA exploration projects that the agency stopped earlier this year as part of changes to its Artemis lunar exploration campaign had suffered overruns that saw their costs more than double, ...
Space Forces new MUOS satellites to...
Boeing will build the U.S. Space Force's next generation of Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellites on its flight-proven 702MP spacecraft platform.The company disclosed the design choice June ...
Botswana signs the Artemis Accords
The African nation of Botswana is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration.David Tshere, Botswana's minister of communications and innovation, ...
Finding solutions to jamming and...
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Iridium's Tim Last. They discuss competition in the direct-to-device and Internet-of-Things sector as well as solutions to GPS jamming problems ...
NASAs inspector general warns launch...
A report by NASA's inspector general is the latest to highlight the problems that the increasing number of launches is posing to spaceports.NASA's Office of Inspector General released a report June ...
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