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NASA Sends Mars Helicopter Blades Beyond Mach 1

1 Min Read NASA Sends Mars Helicopter Blades Beyond Mach 1 PIA26649 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA Sends Mars Helicopter… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA Sends Mars Helicopter Blades Beyond Mach 1 JPEG (1.38 MB) Description Engineer Fernando Mier-Hicks inspects a test stand used [...]

By |2026-05-07T14:33:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast

1 Min Read NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast PIA26648 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Next-Gen Mars… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast JPEG (1.34 MB) Description Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor [...]

By |2026-05-07T14:32:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Industry Moon Lander Training Cabin Lands at NASA for Artemis

Located in Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the full-scale prototype of the crew cabin of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 crew lander is over 15 feet (5 m) tall.NASA A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program now is operational for [...]

By |2026-05-07T14:28:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to testing it at supersonic speeds in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech Inside the dark chamber of JPL’s 25-Foot Space Simulator, an engineer examines a test stand used to investigate the performance of next-generation Mars [...]

By |2026-05-07T14:28:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A Light in the Dark

NASA A thin sliver of Earth’s edge is brightly illuminated against the vast darkness of space in this April 3, 2026, image taken during the Artemis II mission. Artemis II was the first crewed flight in a series of missions to test NASA’s human deep space capabilities, paving the way for future lunar surface missions. [...]

By |2026-05-07T11:25:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles

3 Min Read NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics (SNAPPY) CubeSat launched at 3 a.m. EDT (12 a.m. PDT) on Sunday, May 3, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. Credits: SpaceX Through NASA, a [...]

By |2026-05-07T10:44:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit

4 min read NASA’s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit Florida as seen from the International Space Station. A NASA geospatial AI foundation model was deployed to a platform aboard the space station for the first time, unlocking new opportunities for Earth observation. NASA A team of researchers from Adelaide University [...]

By |2026-05-07T10:23:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat

Members of NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission 2 pose for a group photo. (From left to right: Ellen Ellis, Ross Elder, James Spicer, and Matthew Montgomery) Credit: NASA The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission on May 7. Currently, the [...]

By |2026-05-07T10:07:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Cornell Students Aid NASA with Drone Safety in Sky

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students from Cornell University are shown working with an air transportation management tool in which a real drone flying over a remote field thinks its operating with imaginary drones flying in a simulated urban environment. Their work is the result of a NASA grant [...]

By |2026-05-07T06:00:00-04:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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