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NASA Sets Coverage for Europa Clipper Launch to Jupiter Moon
NASA · 3 Oct 2024
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Europa Clipper, the agency’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. NASA is targeting launch at 12:31...
Service Module, assemble!
ESA · 3 Oct 2024
ESA's third European Service Module is connected to the Crew Module Adapter at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s Laser Comms Demo Makes Deep Space Record, Completes First Phase
NASA · 3 Oct 2024
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest distance from Earth. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstrati...
How NASA Astronauts Vote from Space Aboard International Space Station
NASA · 3 Oct 2024
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the opportunity to vote in general elections through absentee ballots or early voting in coordination with the county clerk’s office where they live. So, how is...
GPM Celebrates Ten Years of Observing Precipitation for Science and Society
NASA · 3 Oct 2024
Introduction On February 27, 2014, the four-ton Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory (CO) spacecraft launched aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. On that day...
NASA’s LRO: Lunar Ice Deposits are Widespread
NASA · 3 Oct 2024
Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission. Ice would be a valuable resource f...
The Marshall Star for October 2, 2024
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
The Fabric of Marshall: Center Hosts Safety Day 2024 By Serena Whitfield “Safety Woven Throughout the Fabric of Marshall” was the theme for Safety Day at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on Sept. 26. Kickoff activitie...
New NASA eClips VALUE Bundles for Learners with Varied Needs
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
The NASA Science Activation program’s NASA eClips project, led by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), aims to increase Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) literacy and inspire the next generatio...
Unique NASA Partnerships Spark STEM Learning on Global Scale
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
NASA offers a world of experiences and opportunities to engage young explorers around the globe in the excitement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement collaborates...
NASA Prepares for Lunar Terrain Vehicle Testing
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
When astronauts return to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, they will benefit from having a human-rated unpressurized LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) that will allow them to explore more of the lunar surface, enab...
What’s Up: October 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
A new comet is passing through the inner solar system! Time will tell if it’s the brightest of the year, once it appears in twilight after about Oct. 14.
NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sa...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Unusual Jets of Volatile Gas from Icy Centaur 29P
NASA · 2 Oct 2024
Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: distant objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. NASA’s James W...
Companies seek more opportunities to send private astronaut missions to ISS
SpaceNews · 2 Oct 2024
Companies developing commercial space stations want NASA to offer more opportunities to fly precursor missions to the International Space Station to help them gain experience and stimulate customer interest.
NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 1 Oct 2024
The mission has been working to postpone the shut-off as long as possible. Four other instruments aboard the interstellar spacecraft continue to operate.
Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic ‘Time Machines’
NASA · 1 Oct 2024
To shape NASA’s path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system. Name: Dr. Gioia RauTitle: AstrophysicistOrganization: Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Astrophy...
Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA
NASA · 1 Oct 2024
Oct. 1, 2024 Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the agency across multiple programs, including 157 days in space and three spa...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Concludes Space Station Scientific Mission
NASA · 1 Oct 2024
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are returning to Earth after months aboard the International Space Station conducting scientific experiment...
NASA’s Instruments Capture Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt
NASA · 1 Oct 2024
From Aug. 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped p...
NASA removes technical details from Janus RFI
SpaceNews · 1 Oct 2024
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.
ESA to Build Exercise Machine for Gateway Space Station
European Spaceflight · 1 Oct 2024
The European Space Agency has published a call for the development of a multi-use exercise machine that will be used by astronauts visiting the lunar Gateway space station. ESA is contributing several elements of the Gat...
NASA Continues Advancing STEM for Students Through New Partnership
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Monday, the agency and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation signed a Space Act Agreement to collaborate and expand STEM opportunities for Latino K-12 and university students...
NASA Invites Media to Preview its Museum Earth Information Center
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
Media is invited to preview and interview NASA leadership ahead of the opening of the Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History at 10 a.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 7. The 2,000-square-foot e...
NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
By Savannah Bullard A new NASA competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, is open and offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions. As NASA continues efforts toward long-d...
NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to Discuss Science, Station Mission
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share details of her recent six-month mission aboard the International Space Station in a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston....
Mariachi and Moonshots: Melissa Moreno Orchestrates Gateway Communications
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
As a radio frequency wireless engineer in NASA’s Johnson Space Center Avionic Systems Division in Houston, Melissa Moreno makes an impact in space exploration while proudly sharing her cultural heritage in the NASA commu...
Summary of the 10th SWOT Applications Workshop
NASA · 30 Sep 2024
Introduction The tenth Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Applications Workshop took place December 7–8, 2023 at the California Institute of Technology Keck Institute for Space Studies. The meeting was organized to hi...
NASA cites progress in reducing ISS air leak
SpaceNews · 30 Sep 2024
NASA is playing down concerns raised in a recent report about a long-running air leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station, saying they have recently reduced the rate of the leak.
Two-Person Crew-9 Enroute to the ISS
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 28 Sep 2024
Two new crew members for the International Space Station lifted off this afternoon in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom beginning NASA’s Crew-9 mission. ISS crew rotation missions are relatively routine, but...
Artemis Makes Strides Forward in Lunar Communications
Space Scout · 28 Sep 2024
On September 17th, 2024, NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a Near Space Network Services contract to design, build, and operate a system of communications relay and navigation satellites in lunar orbit to support Artemis m...
NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Boosts Human Health Research in Space
NASA · 28 Sep 2024
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will soon dock with the International Space Station as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, a venture which will enhance scientific research and...
Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station
NASA · 28 Sep 2024
The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space La...
SpaceX, NASA launches Crew-9 with two people
NASASpaceflight · 28 Sep 2024
SpaceX and NASA have launched Crew-9 for its six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, originally set to launch with four people, launched with only two. The empty se...