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NASA News News 22 September 2025 - 8 November 2025

Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Mars Probes on Nov. 9: Time, Livestream, Mission Goals, and What Happens Next

Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Mars Probes on Nov. 9: Time, Livestream, Mission Goals, and What Happens Next

Published: November 7, 2025 Key facts at a glance What’s launching and why it matters Blue Origin’s New Glenn is slated to lift off Nov. 9 carrying ESCAPADE—Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers—two identical NASA satellites designed to explain how Mars lost most of its atmosphere and water. The probes will make coordinated measurements to build a 3D, time‑varying picture of Mars’ upper atmosphere and magnetic environment, something a single spacecraft can’t do. It’s NASA’s first dual‑satellite mission to another planet, marking a milestone for low‑cost planetary science. Space Each spacecraft carries electrostatic analyzers (UC Berkeley) to track charged
8 November 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship Triumph Sparks Moon Race 2.0 with China – Stocks Take Off

NASA’s Epic Week: Moon Rocket Ready, Mars Life Clue, and an Interstellar Visitor

Artemis on the Fast Track – and a New Moon Race NASA’s Moon program reached a major milestone this week: engineers at Kennedy Space Center finished stacking the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2, placing the Orion crew capsule (nicknamed “Integrity”) atop the booster space.com. “The towering rocket…has come together,” NASA announced, after hoisting Orion onto SLS inside the Vehicle Assembly Building space.com. This completed rocket – set to launch four astronauts around the Moon – was even exempted from the ongoing federal shutdown, underscoring Artemis 2’s high priority space.com. The mission is targeting February 2026 for liftoff, which would mark
27 October 2025
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NASA’s “Astronaut Avatars” – Tiny Organ Chips Poised to Protect Artemis II Crew’s Health

SpaceX’s Moon Mission in Jeopardy as NASA Opens Artemis Contract to Rivals

NASA Reopens Moon Lander Contract Amid SpaceX Delays NASA’s surprise move to reopen the Artemis III lunar lander contract marks a dramatic shift in the U.S. return-to-the-Moon effort. Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy – who also serves as U.S. Transportation Secretary – revealed on Monday that NASA will no longer rely exclusively on SpaceX for the planned Moon landing mission. “I’m in the process of opening that contract up,” Duffy said, explaining that SpaceX’s development schedule has slipped too much reuters.com. SpaceX’s Starship rocket was originally slated to carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface in late 2025 or 2026,
20 October 2025
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Stratospheric Surprise: Giant NASA ‘Space Balloon’ Crash-Lands on Texas Farm

Stratospheric Surprise: Giant NASA ‘Space Balloon’ Crash-Lands on Texas Farm

Farm Family Stunned by Falling NASA Balloon It was a quiet West Texas morning when the Walter family’s routine was broken by an unusual sight in the sky. Ann Walter was getting her young son ready for the day on October 2 when her husband, Hayden, burst in urging her to come outside chron.com. Looking up, they saw a gigantic white balloon-like object attached to a parachute drifting silently overhead. “We couldn’t quite identify it,” Ann recalled of the moment they watched the mystery object float above their Hale County farm chron.com. They managed to snap a few photos and
4 October 2025
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Space Race Spectacular: SpaceX, Blue Origin & NASA Top Headlines in Early October 2025

Space Race Spectacular: SpaceX, Blue Origin & NASA Top Headlines in Early October 2025

Sources & Commentary: This roundup draws on official releases and news outlets. NASA and industry experts provided insights – for example, Space Force Lt. Col. Amber Johnson called ATLAS “a revolutionary leap forward” for space situational awareness airandspaceforces.com, and Gen. Phillip Garrant stressed the need to “leverage other locations” beyond traditional launch sites airandspaceforces.com. ISRO’s chair V. Narayanan noted NISAR’s broad benefits for the global science community reuters.com. Fact-checks and figures come from Spaceflight Now, Reuters, Space.com, NASA press releases and other vetted sources to ensure accuracy spaceflightnow.com nasa.gov airandspaceforces.com.
3 October 2025
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Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Key Facts Major Launches and Mission Updates NASA’s Space Weather Trio Set for Launch: At Kennedy Space Center, NASA and NOAA are on the cusp of launching three spacecraft that promise new insight into solar storms and the Solar System’s boundary. On Sept. 21, officials declared the IMAP mission (“Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe”) and its two co-manifested satellites “go” for launch science.nasa.gov. IMAP will travel ~1.5 million km sunward to the Sun–Earth L1 point to map the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble shielding our Solar System – and study how solar wind particles and cosmic rays interact at that
22 September 2025
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