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DSCOVR space weather sentinel reaches finish line
A new space weather observatory launched in February has completed a four-month journey to an operating post a million miles from Earth, NOAA announced Monday.
Dawn enters new orbit closer to Ceres
NASA's Dawn asteroid explorer has arrived at its new perch 2,700 miles from the dwarf planet Ceres, a vantage point scientists say will yield better views as the probe continues to step closer to the surface.
Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponed
The launch of a U.S.-French oceanography satellite from California has been postponed from July 22 after engineers discovered contamination in one of the spacecraft's thrusters at its factory in France.
VideoUAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satellite
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have announced the Arab world's first Mars probe will launch in July 2020 and collect global measurements of the Martian atmosphere.
House bill backs exploration at the expense of Earth science
A draft policy outline passed on a party-line vote by a House committee last week calls for redirecting funding from NASA's Earth science programs into the space agency's heavy-lift rocket and Orion crew capsule programs, an outcome NASA's administrator said will set back climate change research.
Diverse destinations considered for new interplanetary probe
Science teams from across the United States have submitted 28 proposals for missions to explore the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, touch the asteroid-like satellites orbiting Mars, visit unseen worlds and hunt for objects that could strike Earth one day.
VideoSMAP observatory unfurls large science antenna structure
Deploying its marquee element in space Tuesday, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft took a major step towards realizing its science potential.
NASA receives proposals for new planetary science mission
The proposals are in for a new NASA mission for launch in 2021 to explore the solar system, and scientists have submitted concepts for probes to the moon, planets, asteroids and comets for a chance to win $450 million in federal funding.
Space weather observatory blasts off after 17-year wait
An interplanetary space weather station rocketed away from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, speeding toward a remote operating post a million miles from Earth to help forecasters warn of intense solar storms.
Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft
Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day.