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NASA

• Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
  June 11, 2026
  The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
• Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!
  June 10, 2026
  Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning day: Friday, June 5th, 2026 In a very broad sense, Curiosity has two modes of doing science – one centred around a defined science campaign (such as the recent boxwork campaign) and the other as we move […]
• NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California
  June 10, 2026 by Jessica Taveau
  NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region. The contract provides general construction, […]
• NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
  June 10, 2026
  Abstracts are now being accepted for the session, which will take place at the 2027 AMS Annual Meeting.
• NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence 
  June 10, 2026 by Andrew Wagner
  As NASA plans long-term missions on the Moon, the agency could use robots to perform routine tasks, allowing crew members to dedicate more time to science and exploration. However, robotic motion control requires complex technology and advances in features like robotic decision-making and object recognition. These are the challenges a Boulder, Colorado-based robotics company is […]

SpaceNews

• GEO cancellations complicate space insurance recovery
  June 11, 2026
• Open Cosmos seeks deadline extension for broadband constellation
  June 11, 2026
• ESA awards contract for next-generation radar imaging satellites
  June 11, 2026
• Long March 5 launches classified satellite, Zhuque-2E lofts direct-to-device test sats
  June 11, 2026
• Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare
  June 11, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
  by Beth Mole
• Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
  by John Timmer
• Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it
  by Chris Lee
• FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation
  by Stephen Clark