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Artemis II Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
Teams transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 24, 2024. Tugboats and towing vessels moved the Pegasus barge and 212...
There Are No Imaginary Boundaries for Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana would look up at the sky and marvel at the immensity of space when she was younger. Now, the bounds are limitless as she helps NASA explore the expansive universe by computing the trajectories...
Celebrating NASA’s Coast Guard Astronauts on Coast Guard Day
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
Each Aug. 4, Coast Guard Day commemorates the founding on Aug. 4, 1790, of the U.S. Coast Guard as the Revenue-Marine by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Although considered an internal event for active duty...
NASA Ames to Host Supercomputing Resources for UC Berkeley Researchers
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
Under a new agreement, NASA will host supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The agreement is part of an expanding partne...
NASA weighs Boeing vs. SpaceX choice in bringing back Starliner astronauts
CNBC · 2 Aug 2024
NASA management has been in deep discussion this week about whether to return the agency’s astronauts on board Boeing’s misfiring Starliner capsule or to go with the alternative of using a SpaceX craft to rescue the crew...
NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Colum...
NASA Scientists on Why We Might Not Spot Solar Panel Technosignatures
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life — but NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to hel...
Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy
NASA · 2 Aug 2024
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf elliptical galaxy is part of the Virgo clus...
NASA to soon resume awards of lunar lander missions
SpaceNews · 2 Aug 2024
NASA plans to soon make its first robotic lunar lander awards in more than a year as the agency and the industry grapple with uncertainty in the overall program linked to the cancellation of a rover mission.
NASA Shares its SpaceX Crew-10 Assignments for Space Station Mission
NASA · 1 Aug 2024
As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission, four crew members are preparing to launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, JAXA (J...
Exploring Deep Space: NASA Announces 2025 RASC-AL Competition
NASA · 1 Aug 2024
NASA has officially announced the 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, an initiative to fuel innovation for aerospace systems concepts, analogs, and technology prototypi...
ASCEND panel cites AI challenges and promise
SpaceNews · 1 Aug 2024
LAS VEGAS – Space organizations are continuing to identify promising applications of artificial intelligence, according to speakers at the AIAA ASCEND conference here. At NASA, for example, AI helps aggregate
System-Wide Safety Project Description
NASA · 1 Aug 2024
A new era of aviation is here, and NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System (NAS). SWS was cre...
The Marshall Star for July 31, 2024
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
SLS Core Stage Rolls Inside Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the Artemis II mission is inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center....
Autonomous Medical Operations (AMO)
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
The Autonomous Medical Operations (AMO) project supports NASA’s strategic thrust to advance “human augmentation” capabilities.
A Picture-Perfect Portrait: Eliza Hoffman’s Take on Dorothy Vaughan
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
On July 19, 2024, NASA officially named Johnson Space Center’s building 12 the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo.” A portrait of Dorothy Vaughan is now the central feature at the entrance of the new...
2024 Software of the Year Co-Winner – Orbital Debris Engineering Model (ORDEM)
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
NASA Johnson Space Center: ORDEM represents the state of the art in orbital debris models intended for engineering analysis. It is a data-driven model, relying on large quantities of radar, optical, in situ, and laborato...
2024 Software of the Year Award Co-Winner -Prognostics Python Packages (ProgPy)
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
NASA Ames Research Center: ProgPy is an open-source Python package supporting research and development of prognostics, health management, and predictive maintenance tools. Prognostics is the science of prediction, and th...
Affordable Access to Space
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
The Affordable Access To Space (AATS) project is a set of agreements to enable NASA missions with affordable, dedicated access to space
2024 Invention of the Year Winner – Thrust Chamber Liner and Fabrication Method
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: A thrust chamber assembly (TCA) is the critical and central component in a rocket engine that provides thrust to propel a launch vehicle into space. Since the 1960s, while small improve...
Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science
ESA · 31 Jul 2024
As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target bodies have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents s...
What’s Up: August 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
Two planets meet for a super close conjunction, the Perseid meteor shower peaks, and look for the Lagoon Nebula – a stellar nursery in Sagittarius.
NASA Public Engagement Specialist Loves to Inspire Kids with STEM
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
Careers at NASA were not on his radar growing up. But Jonas Dino, public engagement specialist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, ended up with his perfect job that involves connecting people...
NASA’s First-Ever Quantum Memory Made at Glenn Research Center
NASA · 31 Jul 2024
Bringing bright minds together has once again proven to be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Researchers developed technology that will store information within a cloud of atoms. Together with Infleqtio...
GHGSat gains NASA approval for methane-emissions data
SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024
LAS VEGAS – Methane-emissions data from GHGSat will be shared for scientific research through NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. Montreal-based GHGSat announced July 31 that the company’s data “successf...
Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
SpaceNews · 31 Jul 2024
Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return (MSR) have offered glimpses of their work that range from tweaking one component to overhauling the entire architecture.
NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch
NASA · 30 Jul 2024
NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 11:28 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch is the 2...
Overview for NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st Commercial Resupply Mission
NASA · 30 Jul 2024
NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:28 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. F...
Repair Kit for NASA’s NICER Mission Heading to Space Station
NASA · 30 Jul 2024
NASA will deliver a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, on the agency’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission. Astronauts w...
Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month, July 2024
NASA · 30 Jul 2024
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Ryan T. Scott, Mike Kubo, Ehsan (Sam) Gharib-Nezhad, and Kristen Okorn. Their commitment to the NASA mission represen...
NASA’s DART Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid System
NASA · 30 Jul 2024
In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, the mission’s science team has discove...
NASA proceeding with August launch of Crew-9
SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024
NASA is pressing ahead with a mid-August launch of the next Crew Dragon mission while delaying the first operational flight of Starliner.
NISAR launch slips to 2025
SpaceNews · 30 Jul 2024
The launch of a joint U.S.-Indian radar imaging satellite will not take place before February 2025 because of work on the spacecraft’s antenna and orbital constraints, NASA said July 29.
Starliner Passes In-Orbit Tests, But First Operational Launch Slips
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Jul 2024
Boeing and NASA put the Starliner spacecraft through its paces this weekend, successfully testing the thrusters and confirming the helium leaks are stable. But in a nod to the amount