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2023 Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner Skyline Nav AI: Revolutionizing GPS-Independent Navigation with Computer Vision

By |2025-01-07T12:38:00-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read 2023 Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner Skyline Nav AI: Revolutionizing GPS-Independent Navigation with Computer Vision NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To help leverage external funding sources for the development [...]

NASA Kicks off Testing Campaign for Remotely Piloted Cargo Flights

By |2025-01-07T12:21:00-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Danah Tommalieh, commercial pilot and engineer at Reliable Robotics, inputs a flight plan at the control center in Mountain View, California, ahead of remotely operating a Cessna 208 aircraft at Hollister municipal airport in Hollister, California.NASA/Don Richey NASA recently began a series of flight [...]

NASA to Cover Two Spacewalks, Hold Preview News Conference

By |2025-01-07T10:10:00-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet conduct a spacewalk to complete work on the International Space Station on June 25, 2021.Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 91 on Thursday, Jan. 16, and U.S. spacewalk 92 on Thursday, Jan. 23, to [...]

NASA Science, Tech Launching to Moon in Mid-January

By |2025-01-07T09:32:00-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA, SpaceX, and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, for the launch of Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s [...]

A New Year’s Aurora and SAR Arc

By |2025-01-07T08:09:06-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It was a new year, and the sky was doubly red. The new year meant that the Earth had returned to its usual place in its orbit on January 1, a place a few days before its closest approach to the Sun. The first of the two red skyglows, on [...]

How US-Indian NISAR Satellite Will Offer Unique Window on Earth

By |2025-01-06T16:53:00-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An equal collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, NISAR will offer unprecedented insights into Earth’s constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology. The spacecraft, depicted here in an artist’s concept, will launch from India.NASA/JPL-Caltech A Q&A [...]

The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon

By |2025-01-06T16:47:00-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Home Skywatching The Next Full Moon is the Wolf… Skywatching Home What’s Up Eclipses Explore the Night Sky Night Sky Network More Tips and Guides FAQ   27 Min Read The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon The Moon sets over Homestead National Historic Park in Nebraska. Credits: National Park Service/Homestead The [...]

NASA Names Adam Schlesinger as Commercial Lunar Payload Services Project Manager

By |2025-01-06T16:02:00-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Official portrait of Adam Schlesinger.NASA/Bill Stafford NASA has selected Adam Schlesinger as manager for CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services). Schlesinger previously served as the Gateway Program habitation and logistics outpost project lead engineer at Johnson Space Center. “I am honored and tremendously excited to take on this new role as NASA continues to enable a [...]

Defying Gravity

By |2025-01-06T15:01:00-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA In this Dec. 11, 1963, image, technicians prepare a test subject for studies on the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. This position meant that a person’s legs experienced only one sixth of their weight, which was the equivalent of being on the Moon’s surface. The simulator was [...]

Spacewalk Preps, Science, and Cargo Work Kick Off New Year

By |2025-01-06T14:21:00-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

Astronauts (from left) Butch Wilmore and Don Pettit install futuristic exercise gear with advanced bicycling, rowing, and resistive capabilities inside the Columbus laboratory module. Expedition 72 is beginning the New Year preparing for an upcoming spacewalk to service science hardware and install communications gear. The International Space Station residents also conducted space agriculture and worked [...]

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