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- The Stanley Cup Comes to Kennedy NASA · 27 Sep 2024 The Stanley Cup, won in 2024 by the Florida Panthers, made a visit to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 17, 2024, as part of its championship tour. The VAB currently houses compo...
- NASA confirms space station cracking a “highest” risk and consequence problem Ars Technica · 27 Sep 2024 NASA and Roscosmos have not agreed on the point at which the leak rate is untenable.
- Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral NASA · 27 Sep 2024 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding...
- Hubble Captures Steller Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral NASA · 27 Sep 2024 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding...
- NASA funds Starfish Space debris inspection mission SpaceNews · 27 Sep 2024 NASA awarded a $15 million contract to Starfish Space to fund development of a debris inspection mission as the agency examines the future of a bigger satellite servicing project.
- NASA Hosts Two Workshops for Consultation on LEO Microgravity Strategy NASA · 26 Sep 2024 As part of NASA’s effort to advance microgravity science, technology, and exploration in low Earth orbit (LEO), the agency conducted two stakeholder workshops in London and Washington to solicit feedback from the interna...
- NASA’s BioSentinel Studies Solar Radiation as Earth Watches Aurora NASA · 26 Sep 2024 In May 2024, a geomagnetic storm hit Earth, sending auroras across the planet’s skies in a once-in-a-generation light display. These dazzling sights are possible because of the interaction of coronal mass ejections – exp...
- Hubble sees black hole beam boosting stellar eruptions ESA · 26 Sep 2024 In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its...
- Pioneer of Change: America Reyes Wang Makes NASA Space Biology More Open NASA · 26 Sep 2024 As humans return to the Moon and push on toward Mars, scientists are ramping up research into the effects of space on the body to make sure astronauts stay healthy on longer missions. This research often involves spacefl...
- NASA Stennis Completes Key Test Complex Water System Upgrade NASA · 26 Sep 2024 For almost 60 years, NASA’s Stennis Space Center has tested rocket systems and engines to help power the nation’s human space exploration dreams. Completion of a critical water system infrastructure project helps ensure...
- NASA’s Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions NASA · 26 Sep 2024 In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its traje...
- Let It Go: (After Latching) Challenge NASA · 26 Sep 2024 NASA is seeking innovative solutions for a synchronized antenna deployment system. The primary objective is to develop a mechanism that ensures sequential deployment of antenna panels, addressing a critical aspect of spa...
- NASA’s Artemis Science Instrument Gets Tested in Moon-Like Sandbox NASA · 26 Sep 2024 Scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) instrument suite in a “sandbox” of simulated Moon “soil.”
- NASA Invites Public to Join as Virtual Guests for SpaceX Crew-9 Launch NASA · 26 Sep 2024 NASA invites the public to participate as virtual guests in the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, will emb...
- Blue Origin tests New Glenn upper stage SpaceNews · 26 Sep 2024 Blue Origin successfully tested the upper stage of its first New Glenn rocket, but on a schedule that appears to vindicate a NASA decision not to use it for a mid-October launch of a Mars mission.
- Leidos replaces Lockheed Martin on Artemis rover team SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 Lunar Outpost, one of three companies that won NASA contracts earlier this year to begin design work on Artemis lunar rovers, has added Leidos to its team after parting ways with Lockheed Martin.
- 2024 SARP West Closeout NASA · 25 Sep 2024 On August 12-13, 24 students from the West Coast cohort of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) gathered at University of California, Irvine (UCI) to present their final research to a room of mentors, professo...
- Getting SSPICY: NASA Funds Orbital Debris Inspection Mission NASA · 25 Sep 2024 NASA is advancing an innovative approach to enabling commercial inspection of defunct, or inoperable, satellites in low Earth orbit, a precursor to capturing and repairing or removing the satellites. The agency has award...
- The Marshall Star for September 25, 2024 NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Marshall Presents Small Business Awards for Fiscal Year 2024 By Wayne Smith NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center honored top contractors, subcontractors, teams, and individuals of fiscal year 2024 at the 38th meeting of M...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launch, Docking NASA · 25 Sep 2024 NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Space...
- NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch NASA · 25 Sep 2024 NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. EDT each day from Sept. 26 to...
- NASA’s Art Program is Back NASA · 25 Sep 2024 NASA launched its reimagined art program by unveiling two murals on Sept. 23, 2024. The murals, titled “To the Moon, and Back,” were created by New York-based artist team Geraluz and WERC and use geometrical patterns to...
- Meet Hector Chavez: Leading Johnson’s Giant Leap into Low Earth Orbit NASA · 25 Sep 2024 As systems integration team lead for NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP), Hector Chavez helps build a future where NASA and private industry work together to push the boundaries of space explorat...
- NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 25 Sep 2024 Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people.
- NASA Michoud Continues Work on Evolved Stage of SLS Rocket for Future Artemis Missions NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Manufacturing equipment that will be used to build components for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for future Artemis missions is being installed at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana...
- Webb finds potential missing link to first stars ESA · 25 Sep 2024 Looking deep into the early Universe with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its...
- NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission NASA · 25 Sep 2024 NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two yea...
- NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimete...
- Robotic Moving ‘Crew’ Preps for Work on Moon NASA · 25 Sep 2024 As NASA moves forward with efforts to establish a long-term presence on the Moon as part of the Artemis campaign, safely moving cargo from landers to the lunar surface is a crucial capability. Whether the cargo, also kno...
- In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. Fou...
- September 2024 Transformer of the Month: Lori Arnett NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Lori Arnett approaches her work at NASA with a simple motto: think big, start small, act fast. As the Associate Director for Digital Transformation for the Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) within the...
- NASA, SpaceX conduct prelaunch activities as Tropical Storm delays Crew-9 mission Spaceflight Now · 24 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexandr Gorbunov walked through a launch day simulation as NASA and SpaceX prepared to conduct a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket. Ignition happened at 10:05 p.m....
- NASA Relaunches Art Program with Space-Themed Murals NASA · 24 Sep 2024 NASA launched the next phase of its art program with two new space-themed murals in New York’s Hudson Square neighborhood in Manhattan. The vision of the reimagined NASA Art Program is to inspire and engage the Artemis G...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Spaceflight Now · 24 Sep 2024 The launch comes as SpaceX and NASA are also busy preparing fore the next crewed flight the International Space Station. Liftoff is set for 9:01 p.m. PDT (12:01 a.m. EDT, 0401 UTC).
- NASA Ames Welcomes Latvian President, Talks Aeronautics Research NASA · 24 Sep 2024 President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs observes simulated visuals of an airport and its air traffic, consisting of commercial aircraft and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, at NASA’s FutureFlight Central on...
- In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave Boeing all the crew funding Ars Technica · 24 Sep 2024 "In all my years of working with Boeing I never saw them sign up for additional work for free."
- Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline NASA · 24 Sep 2024 Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Da...
- Educational Activities in Space NASA · 24 Sep 2024 Science in Space: September 2024 As students of all ages returned to school this month, crew members on the International Space Station continue to conduct a variety of educational programs and activities that support le...
- NASA Helps Build New Federal Sea Level Rise Website NASA · 24 Sep 2024 Designed to be user-friendly, the resource contains the latest sea level data, explainers, and other information from several U.S. agencies. The U.S. Interagency Task Force on Sea Level Change launched the U.S. Sea Level...
- NASA Helps Build New Federal Sea Level Rise Website Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 24 Sep 2024 Designed to be user-friendly, the resource contains the latest sea level data, explainers, and other information from several U.S. agencies.