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- Europa Clipper Go For Launch SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 Sep 2024 NASA today cleared the Europa Clipper mission for launch next month. The decision on whether or not to launch has been up in the air for the past several months
- NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Sep 2024 Works in ‘Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,’ an exhibit in Glendale, California, help shrink the universe into something tangible.
- Europa Clipper passes pre-launch review SpaceNews · 9 Sep 2024 A multibillion-dollar NASA mission to a potentially habitable moon of Jupiter has been cleared to begin final preparations for an October launch after resolving concerns about electronics on the spacecraft.
- NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition NASA · 9 Sep 2024 Works in ‘Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,’ an exhibit in Glendale, California, help shrink the universe into something tangible. The universe is vast and filled with countless worlds, but a new...
- NASA Astronauts to Discuss Mission from Space Station NASA · 9 Sep 2024 Media are invited to hear from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams during an Earth to space call at 2:15 p.m. EDT, Friday, Sept. 13. The pair will participate in a news conference aboard the International Spa...
- The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia NASA · 9 Sep 2024 The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the African nation’s highest peak and ancient rock paintings going back at least 2,000 years, is pictured from...
- Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night at NASA Goddard NASA · 9 Sep 2024 The public is invited to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. EDT at NASA Goddard’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. International Observe the Moon Night is a time...
- Like a Diamond in the Sky: How to Spot NASA’s Solar Sail Demo in Orbit NASA · 9 Sep 2024 Now that its reflective sail has deployed fully open in orbit, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System can be seen in the night sky from many locations across the world! Stargazers can join NASA’s #SpotTheSail campaign...
- Find Me on the Moon: NASA Lunar Navigation Challenge NASA · 9 Sep 2024 NASA’s Artemis campaign is a series of lunar missions to further explore the lunar landscape to prepare for future missions to Mars. The Artemis missions will send humans to land on the moon and explore the lunar south p...
- NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo NASA · 9 Sep 2024 Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity. These are located approximately 300 light-years apart and were detected using NASA’s Hub...
- NASA Science for Your Classroom: Opportunities for Educators NASA · 9 Sep 2024 The summer season for educators can be a time of rest and rejuvenation, but it can also offer opportunities for professional learning with new colleagues beyond your own school. The following programs from NASA’s Science...
- NASA charts path toward commercial services for Mars SpaceNews · 9 Sep 2024 It won’t be easy for NASA to buy commercial services to support Mars exploration. The vast distance between Earth and the Red Planet poses a significant challenge, as do the
- Starliner lands safely in New Mexico Spaceflight Now · 7 Sep 2024 Despite NASA's concerns about earlier thruster problems and multiple helium leaks in the ship's propulsion pressurization system, the Starliner had no trouble undocking and moving away from the station at 6:04 p.m. EDT a...
- NASA, Boeing Welcome Starliner Spacecraft to Earth, Close Mission NASA · 7 Sep 2024 NASA and Boeing safely returned the uncrewed Starliner spacecraft following its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT Sept. 6 at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, concluding a three-month flight test to the International Space...
- NASA removes ESCAPADE from inaugural New Glenn launch SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2024 NASA has decided not to launch a pair of Mars-bound smallsats on the first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn in October out of concerns that the rocket may not be ready in time.
- New Glenn Comes Together, but Plans Change Space Scout · 6 Sep 2024 On Friday, September 6th 2024, NASA announced an official delay of the EscaPADE mission’s launch to March of 2025. The agency specified that the decision came at potential risk to spacecraft health in the event that the...
- Live coverage: NASA, Boeing prepare to undock Starliner, concluding the Crew Flight Test mission Spaceflight Now · 6 Sep 2024 The spacecraft will journey back to Earth without the two astronauts it launched with back on June 5. Undocking is set for 6:04 p.m. EDT (2204 UTC) with landing just after midnight on Saturday.
- Faced with a tight deadline, NASA and Blue Origin agree to delay New Glenn debut Ars Technica · 6 Sep 2024 "We can’t take our foot off the pedal here."
- NASA Selects Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a...
- NASA Delays ESCAPADE to 2025, Blue Origin Moves New Glenn Blue Ring Mission Up To November The Launch Pad · 6 Sep 2024 NASA Delays ESCAPADE to 2025, Blue Origin Moves New Glenn Blue Ring Mission Up To November
- NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will represent the agency during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the women who contributed to the space race, including the NASA mathemati...
- NASA Scientific Balloon Takes Flight With Student-Built Payloads NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (H...
- NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 71 NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Expedition 71 crew...
- NASA Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 6 Sep 2024 The teleconference will follow a key meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission.
- NASA Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 9, to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will o...
- NASA Summer Camp Inspires Future Climate Leaders NASA · 6 Sep 2024 From July 15-19, 2024, the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub at the Georgia Institute of Technology collaborated with the University of Georgia (UGA) Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Le...
- OSAM-1 Partnership Opportunity: Request for Information NASA · 6 Sep 2024 NASA is exploring potential partnerships for alternate use cases for the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) flight hardware, test facilities, and experienced personnel. Through a Request for Infor...
- Debris from DART impact could reach Earth ESA · 6 Sep 2024 In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debri...
- Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center NASA · 6 Sep 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709a located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirlin...
- NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor NASA · 5 Sep 2024 NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The...
- New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy NASA · 5 Sep 2024 From across the Atlantic Ocean and through the Gulf of Mexico, two ships converged, delivering key spacecraft and rocket components of NASA’s Artemis campaign to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Sept. 3,...
- NASA reaffirms decision to cancel OSAM-1 SpaceNews · 5 Sep 2024 NASA is proceeding with plans to shut down a satellite servicing mission at the end of the month after rejecting a proposal to revise the mission to meet a 2026 launch date.
- NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline NASA · 5 Sep 2024 As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission success remain as top priorities for the teams. Mission managers will com...
- Join the Eclipsing Binary Patrol and Spot Rare Stellar Pairs! NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Eclipsing binaries are special pairs of stars that cross in front of one another as they orbit—stars that take turns blocking one another from our view. At Eclipsing Binary Patrol, the newest NASA-funded citizen science...
- NASA to Support DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing Program NASA · 5 Sep 2024 NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites provid...
- NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Mars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the last 3 billion years, at least some water went deep underground, but what happened to the rest? Now, NASA’s...
- Eclipses Create Atmospheric Gravity Waves, NASA Student Teams Confirm NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Student teams from three U.S. universities became the first to measure what scientists have long predicted: eclipses can generate ripples in Earth’s atmosphere called atmospheric gravity waves. The waves’ telltale signat...
- NASA Tunnel Generates Decades of Icy Aircraft Safety Data NASA · 5 Sep 2024 On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) to study infli...
- Artemis IV: Gateway Gadget Fuels Deep Space Dining NASA · 5 Sep 2024 Learn about the handy device NASA is developing to help astronauts rehydrate their meals aboard the Gateway Lunar Space Station during the ambitious Artemis IV mission.
- Starliner Ready to Come Home SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Sep 2024 Boeing’s Starliner capsule is two days away from returning to Earth after an eventful crewed flight test. NASA said today they will close the hatches tomorrow with undocking set for