NASA Awards Contract for Engineering, Technical Support Services
NASA · 2 Nov 2020
NASA has selected ASRC Federal Systems Solutions of Beltsville, Maryland, to perform engineering and technical support services for Research Facilities and Engineering Support Services (RF&ESS) for the Mission Support Di...
Moon patrols could be a future reality for Space Force
SpaceNews · 2 Nov 2020
U.S. military space activities today are confined to Earth orbit. As NASA begins to establish a permanent presence at the moon and works with the private sector to develop a cislunar economy, the military foresees playin...
Scientists release new view from OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid smash and grab
Spaceflight Now · 1 Nov 2020
Scientists say the touch and go landing by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on an asteroid last month revealed fresh insights into the structure of loose rocks that may cover the surfaces of many small planetary bodies — mat...
NASA’s ML-1 Completes Testing at LC-39B ahead of SLS Stacking
NASASpaceflight · 1 Nov 2020
NASA’s Mobile Launcher-1, or ML-1, has rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after completing a series of tests at Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B). This marks the last trip to the launch pad for ML-1 until the first f...
International Space Station offers ‘blueprint’ for exploration, first crew says
Spaceflight Now · 31 Oct 2020
Bill Shepherd, a former Navy SEAL-turned astronaut who arrived at the International Space Station 20 years ago Monday to begin the continuous occupancy of the orbiting research outpost, says the experience gained by NASA...
SLS Program hit by Hurricane Zeta while working through Green Run issues
NASASpaceflight · 31 Oct 2020
The law of averages caught up to the New Orleans area and the two NASA facilities located nearby when Hurricane Zeta roared directly through them on the evening of October 28 as a Category Two storm. Several tropical wea...
NASA Awards Contract for Engineering, Science Software
NASA · 30 Oct 2020
NASA has awarded a contract to MathWorks Inc. of Natick, Massachusetts, to provide new software licenses, maintenance, and product training for mathematical computing software to be used by all NASA centers and associate...
Automating Robotics: CSA preparing for future with Canadarm2/Dextre
NASASpaceflight · 29 Oct 2020
When Canadarm2 was first launched to ISS onboard Shuttle Endeavour on 19 April 2001 and installed three days later by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski, it was designed to be controlle...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu
NASA · 29 Oct 2020
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft’s Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid...
NASA Invites Media to Briefing on OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Stowage
NASA · 29 Oct 2020
NASA will host a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, Oct. 29, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSI...
NASA InSight's 'Mole' Is Out of Sight
NASA · 16 Oct 2020
Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight's arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars' temperature.