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- NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery NASA · 29 Aug 2024 A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award. Intuitive...
- NASA Leaders Tour Ames Campus, Meet with Employees NASA · 29 Aug 2024 NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, and Director of Cross-Agency Strategy John Keefe visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Aug. 28. The visi...
- NASA Celebrates 25 Years of High School Aerospace Scholars NASA · 29 Aug 2024 For 25 years, the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has inspired and provided high school students across the state of Texas with NASA-focused learning experiences through the High School A...
- NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument NASA · 29 Aug 2024 In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to famil...
- Saharan Dust in the Wind NASA · 29 Aug 2024 The Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of a plume of Saharan dust as winds lofted it over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 24, 2024. The Sahara Desert is Earth’s largest source of airborne dust, and the particles can trav...
- Firefly names space industry veteran Jason Kim as new CEO SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 Kim was most recently the chief executive of Boeing’s small satellite manufacturing subsidiary Millennium Space
- Blue Origin flies NASA-funded scientist and space tourists on New Shepard suborbital flight SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 Blue Origin took six people, including a NASA-funded researcher, on a New Shepard suborbital spaceflight Aug. 29.
- Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope NASA · 29 Aug 2024 The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical engineer working on the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard. Name:...
- NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Pr...
- Arianespace CEO Declines to Comment on How Avio Replaced Vega Propellants Tanks European Spaceflight · 29 Aug 2024 Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël declined to comment when asked what solution Avio had employed to replace a pair of out-of-production propellant tanks for the final Vega rocket launch. In December 2023, European Spacefli...
- NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 29 Aug 2024 Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves.
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils NASA · 29 Aug 2024 The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide s...
- Bring NASA Into Your Classroom This Fall Through Virtual Experiences NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Explore the universe this fall without leaving your classroom through live virtual engagements with NASA space and aviation experts. NASA is offering a new lineup of stellar virtual experiences to spark STEM excitement a...
- Shikha Ganguly, L3Harris Technologies – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Shikha Ganguly, General Manager, Weather, L3Harris Technologies.
- Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky Way’s closest grand spiral galactic neighbor. Andromeda III is a faint, spheroidal collection of...
- Sentinel-2C pre-launch media briefing ESA · 29 Aug 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is set for liftoff on 4 September on the last Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
- Galactic Energy launches six satellites with third sea launch SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 HELSINKI — China’s Galactic Energy conducted its third Ceres-1 solid rocket sea launch Thursday, successfully sending six satellites into orbit. The Ceres-1 lifted off from a transport erector launcher on
- Heriot-Watt Begins Work on £2.5M Quantum Comms Ground Station European Spaceflight · 29 Aug 2024 Heriot-Watt University has broken ground on the new quantum communications optical ground station in Scotland. The Edinburgh City Council approved plans to build the optical ground station at the university’s Research Pa...
- Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Again NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 28 2024 We are back … almost, anyways. Today’s parking location is very close to where we parked on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous contact science targets “Discover...
- FAA Suspends Falcon 9 Launches To Investigate Landing Failure SpacePolicyOnline.com · 29 Aug 2024 The FAA is requiring SpaceX to suspend flights of the Falcon 9 rocket until an investigation into this morning’s landing failure is complete. Whether that takes hours, days or weeks
- FAA pauses Falcon 9 launches to investigate failed booster landing SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2024 Falcon 9 launches are temporarily on hold as the Federal Aviation Administration looks into any public safety implications of the failed landing of a booster early Aug. 28.
- Guetlein outlines U.S. Space Force vision for ‘allied by design’ space systems SpaceNews · 28 Aug 2024 As the smallest service with the biggest domain, the Space Force seeks strength in numbers
- FAA grounds SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket following landing mishap Spaceflight Now · 28 Aug 2024 This is the second time in as many months that the workhorse vehicle for SpaceX has been grounded. The Federal Aviation Administration is awaiting a report from SpaceX that will include any needed corrective actions.
- The Marshall Star for August 28, 2024 NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Marshall Leadership Updates Team Members on Culture, Strategy By Wayne Smith Leadership from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center highlighted a successful summer before looking ahead to the center’s culture and strategy d...
- NASA Expands Human Exploration Rover Challenge to Middle Schools NASA · 28 Aug 2024 By Wayne Smith Following a 2024 competition that garnered international attention, NASA is expanding its Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) to include a remote control division and inviting middle school students t...
- A SAFER Way NASA · 28 Aug 2024 On Sept. 16, 1994, astronaut Mark C. Lee tested out the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system, a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting a spacewalk. Occurring during...
- First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket NASA · 28 Aug 2024 For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is one of two NASA-supported experiments, also known as payloads, funded by the agency’s Fligh...
- With successful airlock test, Lockheed Martin invests in inflatable space structures SpaceNews · 28 Aug 2024 LITTLETON, CO. – The common saying that “space is hard” may need redefinition, given the increasing use of softgoods to fashion inflatable structures from airlocks to habitats for future lunar
- FAA may have just pushed back SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission after Falcon 9 mishap Teslarati · 28 Aug 2024 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may have just caused a delay with SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, which was set to launch soon....
- NASA Assigns Astronaut Jonny Kim to First Space Station Mission NASA · 28 Aug 2024 During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecr...
- NASA Project in Puerto Rico Trains Students in Marine Biology NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water...
- NASA Pilot Program Continues to Award Small Business Innovators NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercia...
- NASA’s inspector general predicts continued cost growth for SLS mobile launch platform SpaceNews · 28 Aug 2024 A contract to build a second mobile launch platform for the Space Launch System could end up costing NASA more than six times its original value, a report by the agency’s inspector general concluded.
- NASA, SpaceX Extend US Media Deadline for Crew-9 Launch to Station NASA · 28 Aug 2024 NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mis...
- 15 Years Ago: STS-128 Delivers Cargo to Enable Six-Person Space Station Crew NASA · 28 Aug 2024 On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member ST...
- Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 28 Aug 2024 The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating.
- Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter NASA · 28 Aug 2024 The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s...
- NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth NASA · 28 Aug 2024 An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first...
- New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires NASA · 28 Aug 2024 Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of car...
- New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 28 Aug 2024 Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate.