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NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project

By |2025-02-24T05:00:00-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Project F.I.R.E. team, part of Falcon Research Labs and current students at Cerritos Community College in California, is researching the use of drones to extinguish fires as part of a NASA research award called the University Student Research Challenge. From left, Logan Stahl, [...]

Saturn in Infrared from Cassini

By |2025-02-23T08:09:07-05:00February 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Saturn looks slightly different in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not [...]

NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract

By |2025-02-21T17:35:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch [...]

NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program

By |2025-02-21T16:32:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch

By |2025-02-21T15:22:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Caption: The Intuitive Machines lunar lander that will deliver NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign is encapsulated in the fairing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: SpaceX Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the [...]

Muscle, Eye, and Breath Research Keeping Crews Healthy in Weightlessness

By |2025-02-21T15:14:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The Milky Way appears beyond Earth’s horizon in this celestial photograph captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit using a camera with low light and long duration settings pointed out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. The International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just [...]

NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station

By |2025-02-21T14:43:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. After final installations are complete, it will be packaged and transported to the United States for final outfitting before being integrated with Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and launched to lunar orbit. Thales Alenia Space Through the Artemis campaign, [...]

Blue Ghost Prepares for Landing, NASA Instrument Breaks Record

By |2025-02-21T14:15:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is nearly one week away from its Moon landing on Sunday, March 2, after launching on Jan.15. In preparation for landing, Blue Ghost will complete its final lunar orbit maneuver scheduled for Monday, Feb. 24. This maneuver will insert Blue Ghost into a near-circular low lunar orbit, bringing the lander [...]

NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind 

By |2025-02-21T10:23:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind  Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.  NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona [...]

Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an Imposter

By |2025-02-21T08:10:00-05:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

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