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Archive for May 16th, 2025

Launch of Australia’s 1st homegrown orbital rocket delayed indefinitely due to payload fairing issue

May 16th, 2025 by me

Australian company Gilmour Space stood down from the debut launch of its Eris rocket today (May 15), and it’s unclear when the pioneering vehicle will take to the skies.

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Norway becomes 55th nation to sign NASA Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration

May 16th, 2025 by me

Norway has added its name to the growing list of nations signing onto NASA’s Artemis Accords, continuing the space agency’s efforts to establish internationally cooperative space exploration.

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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft’s thrusters after 20 years: ‘These thrusters were considered dead’

May 16th, 2025 by me

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe’s backup thrusters — components that hadn’t been used since 2004.

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Eight feet keep PACE | Space photo of the day for May 15, 2025

May 16th, 2025 by me

Engineers and technicians from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland crawl under the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft to inspect its underside.

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We finally have a premiere date for ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3

May 16th, 2025 by me

Paramount+’s flagship ‘Star Trek’ TV series launches back into our living rooms this summer.

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‘Why not a dolphin Jesus?’ — ‘Love, Death + Robots’ creators talk us through this season’s sci-fi episodes (exclusive)

May 16th, 2025 by me

Tim Miller and Jennifer Yuh Nelson discuss four out-of-this-world animated gems in “Love, Death + Robots” Volume 4, which hits Netflix today.

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Is NASA ready for the Red Planet? US senator’s ‘Mission to MARS Act’ aims to modernize Johnson Space Center

May 16th, 2025 by me

Texas is positioning itself at the forefront of human spaceflight research with a $1 billion proposal to upgrade NASA’s Johnson Space Center for missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

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Trump’s proposed 2026 NASA budget cuts will cede our space ‘position of leadership to other nations’, top scientists say

May 16th, 2025 by me

The chairs of several NASA analysis and assessment groups (AGs) issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposed budget that would gut science programs.

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