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- SARP West 2024 Terrestrial Ecology Group NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dan Sousa, San Diego State University Graduate Mentor: Megan Ward-Baranyay, San Diego State University Megan Ward-Baranyay, Graduate Mentor Gerrit Hoving Predicting Ammonia Plume Presence at Feedlots...
- 2024 SARP West Atmospheric Aerosols Group NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Faculty Advisors: Dr. Andreas Beyersdorf, California State University, San Bernardino & Dr. Ann Marie Carlton, University of California Graduate Mentor: Madison Landi, University of California, Irvine Madison Landi, Grad...
- 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...
- Iridium approved to work on LEO compatibility for upcoming smartphones SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 Updated chipset standards due for release late next year could enable mass-market smartphones to connect with Iridium’s satellites, the operator said Sept. 25 after getting permission to try to work in compatibility.
- 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...
- Space Force awards $25 million contract for satellite data integration SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 Outside Analytics will support sensor data analysis at the Space Force’s TAP Lab
- 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...
- Space Force eyes commercial antennas to boost satellite control capacity SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 The Space Systems Command is interested in creating a "commercial antenna marketplace”
- 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...
- SpaceX calls out FAA’s ‘deeply concerning’ statements in front of Congress Teslarati · 25 Sep 2024 SpaceX called out Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator Mike Whitaker for making “several incorrect” and “deeply concerning” statements in front of Congress...
- 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...
- All The Stars Align for a Record-Breaking 75th IAC SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 During the week 14 – 18 October 2024 Milan transforms into the world’s space capital with the arrival of thousands of experts, scientists, industry professionals, and, of course, astronauts! The
- 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...
- Crew Returns from Simulated Trip to Mars—Take a Peek Inside their Journey NASA · 25 Sep 2024 An all-volunteer crew on a simulated trip to Mars “returned” to Earth on Sept. 23, 2024, after being isolated in a tiny habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Their work is contributing to the science that will prop...
- Launching Into Action: White Sands Firefighters on the Frontlines of New Mexico’s Wildfire Crisis NASA · 25 Sep 2024 Ruidoso, New Mexico lay in an unusual hush on June 20, 2024. During any normal summer day, the village in the southern part of the state lives up to the Spanish translation of its name — noisy. But the bustle of this vac...
- 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...
- ESA Awards Contract for Capsule Designed for Destruction European Spaceflight · 25 Sep 2024 The Spanish space technology company Deimos has been awarded a €17 million European Space Agency contract to develop a capsule designed to study the dynamics of Earth reentry. An agreement signed on 24 September awarded...
- Space innovation is falling behind SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 Without refocused federal and private funding, we risk losing our leadership in orbit. With the close of the Cold War, the West plowed headlong into 30 years marked by one tech-fueled
- 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...
- Radian Aerospace begins tests of spaceplane prototype SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 Radian Aerospace, a company with ambitions to develop a reusable orbital spaceplane, has started flight tests of a prototype vehicle.
- FAA administrator defends SpaceX licensing actions on safety grounds SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said safety was the reason why it recently fined SpaceX and delayed an updated Starship launch license, comments that drew a sharp rebuke from SpaceX.
- China to launch near-Earth asteroid sample return mission in 2025 SpaceNews · 25 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid next year, an official with the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Tianwen-2 is scheduled to launch in
- Italian Court Greenlights Construction of First ESA FlyEye Observatory European Spaceflight · 25 Sep 2024 An Italian court has given the green light to ESA and ASI to continue the construction of the first FlyEye observatory, rejecting an appeal by environmental associations. In late 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) sig...
- New Glenn second stage completes hot fire test NASASpaceflight · 24 Sep 2024 Blue Origin has hot-fired the second stage of New Glenn for the first time, continuing to work toward its inaugural launch. Over the last year, the company has continued to lead New Glenn to its first flight and has conf...
- 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....
- Free Starlink Wi-Fi now on most Hawaiian Airlines transpacific fleet SpaceNews · 24 Sep 2024 Hawaiian Airlines announced Sept. 24 the start of free Starlink Wi-Fi on most of its transpacific fleet flying to and from Hawaii.
- Astronaut José Hernández Boards Discovery NASA · 24 Sep 2024 In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits for his turn to enter the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th mi...
- 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...
- SpaceX Starlink makes major announcement with Hawaiian Airlines Teslarati · 24 Sep 2024 SpaceX’s Starlink high-speed internet and Hawaiian Airlines made a major announcement related to the roll-out of the service. Starlink is now available...
- Julie Rivera Pérez Bridges Business, STEM to ‘Make the Magic Happen’ NASA · 24 Sep 2024 Senior Resource Analyst Julie Rivera Pérez ensures finances and assets are in place to enable missions’ engineering and science “magic” can happen. As a former intern, she also reaches out to current students to ensure a...
- 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."