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NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality

By |2024-12-10T14:12:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A drone is shown flying during a test of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) technical capability Level 2 (TCL2) at Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada in 2016. During the test, five drones simultaneously crossed paths, separated by different altitudes. Two drones flew beyond visual line [...]

NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica

By |2024-12-10T14:00:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A scientific balloon is inflated during NASA’s 2023 Antarctic campaign in McMurdo, Antarctica. NASA/Scott Battaion NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, where two balloon flights will carry a total of nine [...]

NASA to Discuss Firefly’s First Robotic Artemis Moon Flight

By |2024-12-10T13:06:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Moon’s near side. Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 17, to discuss the agency science and [...]

Vacuum Testing Complete on Artemis II Orion Spacecraft

By |2024-12-10T13:05:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, a team returns the Artemis II Orion spacecraft to the Final Assembly and Test cell from a vacuum chamber inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it underwent vacuum testing. NASA/Eric Hernandez NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II test [...]

NASA Invites Social Creators for Launch of Two NASA Astrophysical Missions 

By |2024-12-10T12:45:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024. The space telescope will use a technique called spectroscopy across the entire sky, capturing the universe in more than 100 colors. BAE Systems Registration is open for digital content creators to attend the launch of NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the [...]

Discovery Alert: A Planet with a ‘Tail’

By |2024-12-10T12:07:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Artist’s concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b’s “tail.” NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The Planet WASP-69 b The Discovery The exoplanet WASP-69 b has a “tail,” leaving a trail of gas in its wake. Key Takeaway  WASP-69 b is slowly losing its atmosphere as light hydrogen and helium particles [...]

Scientists Share Early Results from NASA’s Solar Eclipse Experiments 

By |2024-12-10T10:00:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Scientists Share Early Results from NASA’s Solar Eclipse Experiments  On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. This photo was taken from Dallas, Texas. Credits: NASA/Keegan Barber On April 8, [...]

NASA TechLeap Prize: Space Technology Payload Challenge

By |2024-12-10T09:35:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Space Technology Payload Challenge invites individuals, teams, and organizations to submit applications for systems that advance technology to address one or more of NASA’s shortfalls. These shortfalls identify technology areas where further technology development is required to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. In addition, technologies to address these select shortfalls [...]

3D Printable Bioreactor for Deep Space Food Production

By |2024-12-10T09:27:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Synthetic Biology Project is turning to the 3D printing experts in the GrabCAD community for ideas and or designs that could lead to the ability to reuse and recycle small scale bioreactors to reduce the mass and volume requirements for deep space missions. Ideally, designs that could be printed using a 3D printer, [...]

Sols 4386-4388: Powers of Ten

By |2024-12-10T05:26:00-05:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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