NASA News
Latest NASA news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
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- NASA Picks $1.2B PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope As First Probe Explorer — — NASA has selected the PRIMA far-infrared space observatory, led by JPL and Caltech, as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033...
- Infleqtion Hits 30 Entangled Logical Qubits On Sqale, A Fault-Tolerance Milestone — — NYSE-listed Infleqtion says its Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer produced 30 fully entangled logical qubits from just 80 physical atoms, backed by...
- IBM And NASA Ship Open-Source Lunar Foundation Model For Ice, Craters And Landing Sites — — NASA and IBM open-source the Lunar Foundation Model, joining the Prithvi family on Hugging Face and outperforming baselines by up to 23% on ice, crate...
- Blue Origin Wins $700M NASA Contract To Build Mars Telecommunications Orbiter — — NASA on Sept. 2 awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate the Mars Telecommunications Network on t...
- NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches On Falcon Heavy For Dark Universe Mission — — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on August 30, 2026, beginning a three-month journey to L2 to survey d...
- NASA awards Infleqtion $20M for quantum gravity sensor mission — — NASA has awarded Infleqtion a $20 million follow-on contract to advance the world's first orbital quantum gravity gradiometer, ahead of a targeted 203...
- NASA Sets August 30 Falcon Heavy Launch For Roman Space Telescope — — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with a Hubble-sized mirror and a view 100x wider, is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy on...
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Slams Into Moon at 5,400 MPH Near Einstein Crater — — A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage from a 2025 lunar-delivery mission finally hit the Moon on August 5, 2026, gouging a fresh crater near Einstei...
- Wildfire Forces NASA To Evacuate Madrid Deep Space Network Site — — NASA evacuated its Madrid Deep Space Network complex on July 24, 2026 as Spanish wildfires burned through Robledo de Chavela. Ops shifted to Goldstone...
- SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 Deploys First V3 Starlink Batch, Splashes Down — — Starship lifted off from Starbase on July 24, deployed 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites and made controlled splashdowns of both the Super Hea...
- Archer, BETA And Macquarie Launch ACES To Build 250 eVTOL Charging Sites By 2030 — — Archer Aviation, BETA Technologies and Macquarie Capital have formed ACES, America's Consortium for Electric Skyways, to build interoperable CCS charg...
- GE Aerospace, NASA, BETA And Boeing Fly First Hybrid-Electric Above 30,000 Feet — — At Farnborough 2026, GE Aerospace and partners flew a modified Saab 340B in hybrid electric mode above 30,000 feet — the first time the technology rea...
- Rocket Lab Set to Launch NASA and Eta Space's LOXSAT Cryogenic Depot Demo — — Rocket Lab is targeting July 17 to launch LOXSAT, an on-orbit cryogenic fluid management demo built by Eta Space for NASA that will validate the plumb...
- NASA's Anil Menon Rides Soyuz MS-29 to ISS With Dubrov and Kikina — — NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina launched aboard Soyuz MS-29 from Baikonur on July 14, 2026 for an eigh...
- NASA Adds Eight Firms to Commercial Satellite Data Program — — NASA selected eight new companies and expanded buys from six existing holders under its Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program.
- NASA Taps Relativity Space to Build 2028 Mars Orbiter Aeolus — — NASA will partner with Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to build and launch Aeolus, a Mars orbiter targeted for 2028 that will monitor the Red Planet's...
- NASA and CSA prep June 30 spacewalk to swap broken Canadarm2 joint — — NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will send Expedition 74 astronauts on a spacewalk no earlier than June 30, 2026 to replace a failed wrist joint on...
- NASA Names Bresnik, Rubio, Douglas And Parmitano To Artemis III Crew — — NASA on June 9 introduced the four-person Artemis III crew — commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano of ESA, and mission specialists Andre Dougl...
- Katalyst's Link Spacecraft Cleared For Pegasus XL Swift Rescue Mission — — NASA confirmed Katalyst Space Technologies' Link servicing spacecraft has completed environmental testing at Goddard Space Flight Center, clearing the...
- Blue Origin Vows To Fly New Glenn Again In 2026 After Pad 36 Blast — — CEO Dave Limp says the propellant farm and processing hangar survived last week's spectacular New Glenn explosion at Cape Canaveral and that the rocke...