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- Ascending Node Technologies Unveils Mission Visualization Software The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 Ascending Node Technologies Unveils Mission Visualization Software
- Hungary, Poland, and India Astronauts Join Axiom Space's Next Private Mission to ISS The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 Hungary, Poland, and India Astronauts Join Axiom Space's Next Private Mission to ISS
- ISRO Astronauts To Begin Training At NASA for Upcoming ISS Missions The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 ISRO Astronauts To Begin Training At NASA for Upcoming ISS Missions
- Muon Space Secures $56.7 Million in Series B Funding The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 Muon Space Secures $56.7 Million in Series B Funding
- Japanese Startup Interstellar Technologies Raises ¥3.1 Billion for Rocket & Satellite Development The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 Japanese Startup Interstellar Technologies Raises ¥3.1 Billion for Rocket & Satellite Development
- SmallSat Conference To Relocate to Salt Lake City In 2025 After Four Decades in Logan The Launch Pad · 6 Aug 2024 SmallSat Conference To Relocate to Salt Lake City In 2025 After Four Decades in Logan
- Cygnus completes two-day journey to the International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 5 Aug 2024 Northrop Grumman engineers were able to create a new burn plan for the spacecraft after it missed two attempts to perform its “targeted altitude burn.” Capture using the robotic Canadarm2 happened at 3:11 a.m. EDT (0711...
- NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small spacecra...
- Aerospace CEO lauds smallsat innovation and risk-taking SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 LOGAN, Utah – In the future, small satellites are likely to operate in swarms thanks to advancements in autonomy, artificial intelligence, collaboration and networking, Steve Isakowitz, Aerospace Corp. president and
- SmallSat Conference relocates to Salt Lake City in 2025 SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 LOGAN, Utah — After nearly four decades in Logan, Utah, the Small Satellite Conference is moving to Salt Lake City in August 2025. Conference Chair Pat Patterson announced during Monday’s
- Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston Spaceflight Now · 5 Aug 2024 Ax-4 will mark the first time an astronaut from India or Poland visits the International Space Station. The mission will be commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, making her second trip to the ISS on behalf of...
- Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS) Formally Launches NASA · 5 Aug 2024 The NASA Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS) formally launched on 6/13/24 during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters with Administrator Nelson as the keynote speaker. The DRCS is a revamped one NASA approach in how...
- Coming in Hot – NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets NASA · 5 Aug 2024 This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. The blue haloes represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine h...
- Marshall Disasters Team Support National Weather Service Offices During May Severe Weather NASA · 5 Aug 2024 May 2024 was a very active month for severe weather across the United States, with several hundred tornadoes occurring throughout the United States. The MSFC Disasters team has been working with several National Weather...
- Snowstorm Field Campaign Wins Prestigious Presidential Rank Group Achievement Award NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Personnel from the MSFC Earth Science Branch and local partners participated in the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS), and they are members of the IMPACTS...
- KNaCK LIDAR Technology Demonstration at 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT5) Field Compaign, Flagstaff, Arizona NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Michael Zanetti (ST13), Kyle Miller (EV42), and Chris Whetsel (ES52) conducted a technology demonstration and field work with the NASA JSC 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT-3) from 5/17-23/24, near SP Crater, Flagstaff, AZ....
- SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) and Bhutan’s Implementing Partners Launch Farm Action Toolkit Service NASA · 5 Aug 2024 On 5/13/24, in alignment with the NASA Interagency Agreement with the US Department of State Advancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Bhutan through Increased Earth Observation Capacity, Aparna R. Phalke,...
- Viasat developing small satellite constellation management service SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 Viasat plans to demonstrate automated constellation management software in 2026 to help small satellites operate independently in increasingly congested low Earth orbit.
- Participation at the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource Event on Capitol Hill NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) represented NASA at a discussion on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot program held on Capitol Hill. The event brought together key members of the House AI Cau...
- NASA and IBM Collaborate to Develop INDUS Large Language Models for Advanced Science Research NASA · 5 Aug 2024 A collaboration between IMPACT and IBM has produced INDUS, a comprehensive suite of large language models (LLMs) tailored for the domains of Earth science, biological and physical sciences, heliophysics, planetary scienc...
- Seminar Preentation Given at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Alphonse Sterling (ST13) gave an invited seminar presentation to the Space Science group at UNH, on 4/26/24. Sterling, who obtained his PhD from UNH, also had round table discussions with some of the current UNH students...
- Lecture to UAH Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Students NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Dennis Gallagher (ST13) provided a lecture to this summer’s 15 REU students titled “Inner Magnetospheric Physics”. Mehmet Yalim of UAH Space Science Department is managing the program this year.
- Lecture on Solar Physics Given to Students in Poland NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Alphonse Sterling (ST13) gave a lecture on solar physics to at a one-day school on 5/5/24, in Krakow, Poland. The lecture was entitled “Introduction to the Solar Interior and Atmosphere,” and was just given prior to the...
- 2025 RASC-AL Competition NASA · 5 Aug 2024 The 2025 RASC-AL Competition is seeking undergraduate and graduate teams to develop new concepts that leverage innovation to improve our ability to operate on the Moon, Mars and beyond.
- Paper on Coronal Jets and CMEs Published NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Alphonse Sterling (ST13) is co-author on a paper describing CMEs that appear to be initiated by a series of recurrent coronal jets. The paper is entitled: “Source Region and Launch Characteristics of Magnetic-arch-blowou...
- Launch Roundup: Starlink constellation continues to expand while China begins building G60 constellation NASASpaceflight · 5 Aug 2024 Following a busy last two weeks, the pace of the worldwide launch schedule is slowing down this week. The first launch of the week will see China launch the initial batch of its G60 internet satellite constellation. If t...
- NASA Ocean Winds Proposal Selected NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Timothy Lang (ST11) is the Principal Investigator and Aaron Kaulfus (ST11) is a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on a proposal titled “Using CYGNSS with a suite of spaceborne remote sensing datasets to probe tropical maritime cold...
- Paper on Creating Friendly Color Maps for Color Vision Deficiency Accepted for Publication NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Timothy Lang (ST11) is a co-author on an article titled “Effective Visualization of Radar Data for Users Impacted by Color Vision Deficiency”, which was recently accepted for publication in Bulletin of the American Meteo...
- Voyager Space to maintain subcontractor role in Lockheed Martin’s missile program SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 The company will provide a solid propulsion roll control system designed to stabilize a missile's flight trajectory
- Lunar Vehicle Active Charge Control System (LVACCS) PICASSO Proposal Awarded NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Linda Krause and Heidi Haviland (ST13) along with Jeff Apple, Miguel Rodriguez-Otero (ES11), Kurt Dietz (ES52), and Gary Thornton (ES21) contributed to the Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar Syste...
- Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Discovery Papers NASA · 5 Aug 2024 On 5/24/24, Astronomy and Astrophysics published online “Pulsar-wind-nebula-powered Galactic center X-ray filament G0.13–0.11” by Eugene Churazov et al. On 5/30/24, Astrophysical Journal Letters published online “Discove...
- Invited Guest Speaker at the Taylor Geospatial Institutes GEOAI Gathering NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) was an invited guest at the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) GeoAI gathering. He presented on the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) based geospatial foundation model and the recent developme...
- Large Earth Foundation Models Panel at SatSummit NASA · 5 Aug 2024 SatSummit brings together leaders in the satellite industry and global development experts for two days of presentations and discussions on using satellite data to address critical development challenges. Rahul Ramachand...
- Invited Panelist at the United States Geospatial intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Symposium NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) was an invited panelist at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) organized GEOINT Symposium Panel titled “Geo-GPT” for Real-Time Geospatial Discovery. The panel explored...
- NASA, LASP Sign Agreement To Advance Space Weather Research, Modeling NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement Monday, Aug. 5...
- Space Force explores ‘small GEO’ options for resilient communications SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 In search for agile, cost-effective ways to enhanced military communications, the U.S. Space Force is zooming in on a new class of ‘small GEO’ satellites that have entered the market.
- TEMPO-EMIT Synergy: Enhancing Applications of GHG and Air Pollutant Observations over Key Emission Sources NASA · 5 Aug 2024 A proposal entitled, “TEMPO-EMIT synergy: Enhancing applications of GHG (greenhouse gas) and air pollutant observations over key emission sources,” was selected for funding through a NASA cross-mission product opportunit...
- Station Science Top News: August 2, 2024 NASA · 5 Aug 2024 Analyses suggest that microgravity does not significantly alter fundamental biochemical pathways in kidney cells, including metabolism of vitamin D. This finding could help researchers develop strategies to protect crew...
- Interstellar raises $21 million for rocket and satellite development SpaceNews · 5 Aug 2024 LOGAN, Utah — Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies raised 3.1 billion yen ($21 million) to fund rocket and communications satellite development. Investors contributing to the Series E investment round, announced Au...
- AstroViz: Iconic Pillars of Creation Star in NASA’s New 3D Visualization NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Universe of Learning – a partnership among the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Caltech/IPAC, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and part of the NASA S...