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International Space Station (ISS)

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard on May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

NASA looks to spur development of commercial satellite services it can use

Slow satellite data transmission hampers the agency's near-Earth science missions, but new constellations promise real-time streaming.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on NASA’s fiscal year 2022 budget request at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

NASA won’t rush Mars mission over U.S. ‘space race’ with China

“The Chinese space program is also a military space program,” said Administrator Bill Nelson on Wednesday.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard on May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

Edge computing is critical to NASA’s Mars ambitions

Astronauts need the ability to process data in real time in order to establish a sustainable presence on the moon en route to Mars.
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