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• Atmospheric Probe Shows Promise in Test Flight NASA · 11 Dec 2024 The most effective way to prove a new idea is to start small, test, learn, and test again. A team of researchers developing an atmospheric probe at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are taki...
• NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100 Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Dec 2024 Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure.
• NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars Ars Technica · 11 Dec 2024 Engineers are already beginning to plan for possible follow-on missions.
• NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100 NASA · 11 Dec 2024 Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure. Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal...
• NASA Study: Crops, Forests Responding to Changing Rainfall Patterns NASA · 11 Dec 2024 Earth’s rainy days are changing: They’re becoming less frequent, but more intense. Vegetation is responding.
• They Grow So Fast: Moon Tree Progress Since NASA’s Artemis I Mission NASA · 11 Dec 2024 In the two years since NASA’s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth with more than 2,000 tree seedlings sourced in a partnership with USDA Forest Service, Artemis I Moon trees have taken root at 236 locations across the con...
• Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way NASA · 11 Dec 2024 For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way galaxy’s mass might h...
• NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Dec 2024 The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world.
• NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World NASA · 11 Dec 2024 The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world. Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and A...
• NASA sees progress in funding key heliophysics mission SpaceNews · 11 Dec 2024 The director of NASA’s heliophysics division is cautiously optimistic that a major mission targeted for cancellation in the agency’s budget proposal will be saved.
• Space Meets Sound: NASA Lands in 2024 Spotify Wrapped NASA · 10 Dec 2024 NASA’s audio storytelling reached new frontiers in 2024, with Spotify Wrapped revealing the agency’s podcasts as a favorite among listeners worldwide. In celebration of the milestone, NASA astronaut Nick Hague spoke with...
• NASA Astronauts O’Hara and Moghbeli Explore Earth Data NASA · 10 Dec 2024 On Dec. 4, 2024, NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, left, and Jasmin Moghbeli spent a moment in part of the Earth Information Center, an immersive experience combining live NASA data sets with innovative data visualization an...
• SpaceCom Column: The Promise and Peril of Jared Isaacman SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2024 Jared Isaacman’s nomination as NASA Administrator sparks excitement and questions. A billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, he brings unmatched expertise in spaceflight and business. Yet, his ties to SpaceX and...
• December 2024 Transformer of the Month: Jill Marlowe NASA · 10 Dec 2024 If Digital Transformation were a ship, the vessel for delivering on our missions and ensuring smooth passage into the future, our final Digital Transformer of 2024 would be the captain. Growing up sailing with her father...
• Black Hole Jet Stumbles Into Something in the Dark NASA · 10 Dec 2024 Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found an unusual mark from a giant black hole’s powerful jet striking an unidentified object i...
• 50 Years Ago: Launch of Helios 1 to Explore the Sun NASA · 10 Dec 2024 On Dec. 10, 1974, NASA launched Helios 1, the first of two spacecraft to make close observations of the Sun. In one of the largest international efforts at the time, the Federal Republic of Germany, also known as West Ge...
• NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality NASA · 10 Dec 2024 Package delivery drones are coming to our doorsteps in the future, and NASA wants to make sure that when medication or pizza deliveries take to the skies, they will be safe. In July, the Federal Aviation Administration (...
• NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica NASA · 10 Dec 2024 NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine missions to near space. Lau...
• NASA to Discuss Firefly’s First Robotic Artemis Moon Flight NASA · 10 Dec 2024 NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 17, to discuss the agency science and technology flying aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon as part of the NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar...
• Vacuum Testing Complete on Artemis II Orion Spacecraft NASA · 10 Dec 2024 NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test flight returned to the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell following completion of the second round of vacuum chamber testing on Dec. 5 inside the Neil A. Armstro...
• NASA Invites Social Creators for Launch of Two NASA Astrophysical Missions NASA · 10 Dec 2024 Registration is open for digital content creators to attend the launch of NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission, and NASA’s Polarimeter to Un...
• Scientists Share Early Results from NASA’s Solar Eclipse Experiments NASA · 10 Dec 2024 On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the United States, and into northeastern Canada. For the eclipse, NASA helped fund numerous research projects...
• NASA TechLeap Prize: Space Technology Payload Challenge NASA · 10 Dec 2024 The Space Technology Payload Challenge invites individuals, teams, and organizations to submit applications for systems that advance technology to address one or more of NASA’s shortfalls. These shortfalls identify techn...
• 3D Printable Bioreactor for Deep Space Food Production NASA · 10 Dec 2024 NASA’s Synthetic Biology Project is turning to the 3D printing experts in the GrabCAD community for ideas and or designs that could lead to the ability to reuse and recycle small scale bioreactors to reduce the mass and...
• Atmos Space Cargo appoints Garver as strategic adviser SpaceNews · 10 Dec 2024 European startup Atmos Space Cargo, a developer of reentry vehicles, has brought on board a former NASA deputy administrator to help the company enter the U.S. market.
• Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver Joins ATMOS European Spaceflight · 10 Dec 2024 Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver has accepted a strategic advisory role at Germany’s ATMOS Space Cargo, a company aiming to commence commercial space cargo return services in 2025. Founded in 2021, ATMOS Spac...
• NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025 Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 10 Dec 2024 The observatory will lend insight into what happened after the big bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far, and search the Milky way for building blocks of life.
• SwRI to build magnetometers for NOAA weather satellites SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 SAN FRANCISCO — The Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio won a $26.1 million contract to build a space weather instrument for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. […]
• 30 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 15th Group of Astronauts NASA · 9 Dec 2024 On Dec. 8, 1994, NASA announced the selection of its 15th group of astronauts. The diverse group comprised 19 candidates – 10 pilots and nine mission specialists, and included five women, two African Americans, one Asian...
• Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Beyond Visual Line of Sight (UTM BVLOS) NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA’s Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Beyond Visual Line of Sight (UTM BVLOS) subproject aims to support the growing demand for drone flights across the globe. Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, of...
• NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 Series pr...
• NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean NASA · 9 Dec 2024 One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined. The ocean is an engine that drives Earth’s weat...
• NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined.
• NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets NASA · 9 Dec 2024 These celestial objects look like asteroids but act like comets now come in two flavors. The first dark comet — a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet — was reported less than...
• Mary W. Jackson Portrait Revealed NASA · 9 Dec 2024 On Dec. 6, 2024, NASA leaders unveiled a portrait of the late Mary W. Jackson, pioneering aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA’s Langley Research Center. The portrait is displayed at the NASA Headquarters Mary W....
• NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 These celestial objects look like asteroids but act like comets now come in two flavors.
• Shattered Genesis spacecraft yields scientific discoveries 20 years after crash landing SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 In September 2004, NASA’s Genesis return sample capsule tumbled from the sky and slammed into the Utah desert in a remote part of the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, shattering […]
• NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and...
• Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Dec 2024 Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award.
• Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s J...