NASA’s Orion spacecraft performed better than expected on its first deep-space flight despite experiencing unpredicted loss of its heat shield material. Space.com reports: During Tuesday’s call, NASA program managers revealed that Orion’s heat shield d…

After analyzing the data collected from NASA’s successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) last year, the DART team found that the kinetic impactor mission “can be effective in altering the trajectory of an asteroid, a big step toward the goal o…

In a keynote at FOSDEM 2023, NASA’s science data officer Steve Crawford explored NASA’s use of open-source software.

But LWN.net notes that the talk went far beyond just the calibration software for the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Ingenui…