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Space Debris

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
NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition  Space Debris

NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition 

NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.   Links to view the Lunabotics competition live can be found on the agency’s Lunabotics page. The competition is slated to run between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day.   …
bubmag
May 11, 2026