CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jun.2026, Words: 425) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), ACNUR, Bolivian Port Services Administration (ASP-B) and NASA, among others. Energy […]
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PRESS DIGEST 29 JUN 2026: VEN rescues; USMCA talks; BOL oil regulations
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Jun.2026, Words: 655) — The following briefs are compiled from varied media outlets across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond and span company details on DART, UNICEF, NASA, OPEC and OSHA, among others. Energy Analytics Institute (EAI) has not verified all of […]
NASA Awards Logistics, Metrology Support Services Contract
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Jan.2025) — Houston-based NASA awarded a small business set-aside contract to Apache Innovations JV of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide logistics, and related support services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The Glenn Logistics and Metrology (GLAM) contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with […]
Houston-based NASA Continues with Space Exploration
(NASA, 6.Dec.2024) — With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s […]
NASA, Peru Agree to Study Potential Sounding Rocket Campaign
(NASA, 14.Nov.2024) — NASA and Peru’s National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) laid the groundwork for a potential multi-year scientific rocket launch campaign in the South American country. Both countries signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding Thursday that includes safety training, a joint feasibility study for the potential […]
NASA Welcomes Chile as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
(NASA, 25.Oct.2024) — Chile signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the 47th nation and the seventh South American country to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity. “Today we welcome Chile’s signing of […]
NASA Funds Research Projects Advancing STEM Career Development
(NASA, 14.Aug.2024) — NASA has awarded $6mn to 20 teams from emerging research institutions across the United States supporting projects that offer career development opportunities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. This is the third round of seed funding awarded through the agency’s MOSAICS (Mentoring and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success) […]
NASA Picks 12 Companies for Space Station Contract
(NASA, 12.Jan.2024) — NASA selected 12 companies to provide research, engineering, and mission integration services for the International Space Station Program. The $478mn Research, Engineering & Mission Integration Services-2 or REMIS-2 contract will support the work of the International Space Station Program based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The companies will […]
Science in the Southern Hemisphere: SOFIA Deploys to Chile
(Universities Space Research Association, 18.Mar.2022) — The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) landed at the Santiago International Airport on 18 March 2022. Like other deployments to the Southern Hemisphere, SOFIA is a partnership between NASA and German Aerospace Agency (DLR) and temporarily changing its base of operations from Palmdale, California, to Santiago, Chile, to observe celestial objects […]
Venezuela’s Coastal Villages Suffer As Oil Spills Rise
(Reuters, 6.Oct.2021) — Rebeca Reyes furiously scrubbed black tar from her kids’ arms after they swam in waters tainted by crude oil during a recent outing to Venezuela’s Punta Cardon beach. A breach in an undersea pipeline owned by state-run oil company PDVSA that had gushed for at least 10 […]
NASA’s 10th Space Apps Challenge
(NASA, 29.Jul.2021) — To mark the 10th International Space Apps Challenge, the largest annual global hackathon in the world, NASA is collaborating with nine space agency partners to bring the event to even more communities 2-3 October 2021. Each year, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, or Space Apps, engages thousands of […]
NASA To Provide Livestream Of Solar Eclipse
(NASA, 10.Dec.2020) — NASA will provide live coverage 14 December 2020, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile and Argentina to views of a total eclipse of the Sun. A Spanish-language program will air on NASA Television and the public channel on the […]
NASA To Livestream South America Total Solar Eclipse
(NASA, 27.Jun.2019) — NASA has partnered with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to bring live views to people across the world of a total solar eclipse, occurring Tuesday, July 2, over South America. The eclipse will only be visible directly to observers within the path of totality, which stretches across […]