NASA will continue efforts to restore contact with Lunar Trailblazer through mid-June, holding out hope it can still conduct its mission to search for water ice on the moon.

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After a four-week hiatus, NASA has republished a document seeking ideas for how to repurpose a pair of smallsats for an asteroid mission, removing many technical details about those spacecraft in the process.

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Companies ranging from Blue Origin to a startup are proposing concepts for missions to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close flyby of Earth in five years.

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NASA is hosting a workshop later this month to learn about options for low-cost missions to an asteroid that will make a close approach to the Earth in 2029, a move that has confused some scientists who believe a shelved smallsat mission can meet NASA’s needs.

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NASA has canceled a mission to send a pair of smallsats to binary asteroids and will put the nearly completed spacecraft into storage for a potential future opportunity.

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A NASA asteroid smallsat mission that lost its original ride to space is considering alternative missions while also accommodating performance issues with its propulsion system.

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A NASA mission to an asteroid that missed its launch window this fall because of technical issues has been rescheduled for launch next October.

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NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission will not launch this year as previously planned after the agency concluded there was not enough time to complete testing of the spacecraft’s software before its launch window closes.

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NASA has found a new ride for a small lunar orbiter mission that will allow the spacecraft to avoid a two-year wait for its launch.

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A delay in the launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is forcing another asteroid mission hitching a ride to revise its plans.

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