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• After 15 years, NASA has declared Opportunity’s mission complete. Earlier this week, the agency tried to contact the Mars rover one last. The rover had been radio silent since June.
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• SpaceX is disputing NASA’s selection of a competitor for a mission to launch a spacecraft to the asteroids of Jupiter. The private space company has filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office.
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• The first launch of a NASA commercial crew space craft has been delayed yet again, happening no earlier than next month.
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• Blue Origin has announced another customer for its new rocket launching from Cape Canaveral.
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• Civil servants at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will receive retroactive pay this week after a 35-day shutdown but the fate of the thousands of center contractors who went without pay is unclear.
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• Workers at the Kennedy Space Center are back on the job after a more than month long partial government shutdown.
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• A deal Friday reopening the federal government doesn’t guarantee back pay for more than a million contract workers. Kennedy Space Center contract workers will rally Saturday in Titusville for back pay.
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• Experiments from planetary scientists at the University of Central Florida are hitching a ride to the edge of space thanks to private company Blue Origin.
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• A 3D printed rocket is launching from Florida’s Space Coast.
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• Not only will the moon be particularly close to Earth, but it will also be bathed in a reddish light just before midnight Eastern time.
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