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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid Space Debris

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid

This image provided by the NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU from the Psyche mission spacecraft shows Mars on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via AP) NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures…
bubmag
May 14, 2026
Europa Clipper and Juice Team Up to Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Space Debris

Europa Clipper and Juice Team Up to Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

When the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passed between ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in November 2025, scientists seized an once-in-a-lifetime chance: one spacecraft caught the comet’s glowing dayside, the other its dusty night side, simultaneously. In November 2025, 3I/ATLAS passed between ESA’s Juice spacecraft…
bubmag
May 13, 2026
Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions Space Debris

Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions

Nicholas Houghton, right, supports crew suit-up operations during Underway Recovery Training 12, an end-to-end practice recovery run conducted at sea to prepare for Artemis II. Sumer Loggins Johnson Space Center Office of Communications May 11, 2026 Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut.…
bubmag
May 11, 2026
SpaceX launches intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office Space Debris

SpaceX launches intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the NROL-172 mission on Monday, May 11, 2026. Image: SpaceX Updated May 12, 10:07 a.m. EDT (1407 UTC): The NRO confirms deployment of its satellites. The National Reconnaissance Office flew…
bubmag
May 11, 2026