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NASA JPL Prepping for Full Year of Launches, Mission Milestones

By |2025-01-23T12:55:00-05:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in an artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept), and SPHEREx, as well as the Mars gravity assist of Europa Clipper (artist’s concept).NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems/Lockheed Martin Space Missions will study everything from water on the [...]

NASA Worm as Art

By |2025-01-23T12:02:00-05:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Museum of Modern Art Opens Exhibition Featuring NASA Worm The iconic NASA logotype, commonly known as the worm and designed by Bruce Blackburn and Richard Danne in 1976, made its premiere Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as part of the museum’s new exhibition “Pirouette: Turning Points [...]

NASA Tests Air Traffic Surveillance Technology Using Its Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft

By |2025-01-23T10:58:00-05:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Equipped with state-of-the-art technology to test and evaluate communication, navigation, and surveillance systems NASA’s Pilatus PC-12 performs touch-and-go maneuvers over a runway at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California on Sept. 23, 2024. Researchers will use the data to understand Automatic Dependent [...]

NASA Invests in Artemis Studies to Support Long-Term Lunar Exploration

By |2025-01-23T10:23:00-05:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Artist’s rendering of astronauts managing logistics on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA NASA awarded new study contracts Thursday to help support life and work on the lunar surface. As part of the agency’s blueprint for deep space exploration to support the Artemis campaign, nine American companies in seven states are receiving awards. The Next Space Technologies [...]

Artist’s Concept of Gemini Spacecraft

By |2025-01-22T17:19:00-05:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Two astronauts are seated inside the Gemini spacecraft in this artist’s concept made in January 1965. The Gemini program was an early NASA human spaceflight program designed to bridge the Mercury and Apollo programs. Its main goal was to test equipment and mission procedures in Earth orbit and to train astronauts and ground crew [...]

NASA Awards Logistics, Metrology Support Services Contract

By |2025-01-22T16:26:00-05:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded a small business set-aside contract to Apache Innovations JV of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide logistics, and related support services to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The Glenn Logistics and Metrology (GLAM) contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a maximum potential value of approximately $72.3 million. The contract phase-in [...]

I am Artemis: Jon Carabello

By |2025-01-22T15:04:00-05:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Jon Carabello has spent his entire career at TURBOCAM, which produces 10 core stage main engine turbomachinery components for the RS-25 main engine on NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) heavy lift exploration rocket.Photo: TURBOCAM Jon Carabello did not begin his career journey with an eye on space, but when NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration campaign came [...]

Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock

By |2025-01-22T12:01:00-05:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Typically, asteroids — like the one depicted in this artist’s concept — originate from the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but a small population of near-Earth objects may also come from the Moon’s surface after being ejected into space [...]

NASA 3D-Printed Antenna Takes Additive Manufacturing to New Heights

By |2025-01-22T10:31:00-05:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA 3D-Printed Antenna Takes Additive Manufacturing to New Heights The 3D-printed antenna mounted to a ladder prior to testing at NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas. Credits: NASA/Peter Moschetti In fall 2024, NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to [...]

Blue Ghost Conducts First Burn, Science Operations, Captures Eclipse

By |2025-01-21T15:52:00-05:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost continues its journey to the Moon carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments. Four days into the mission, the lunar lander completed its first main engine burn. This milestone is the first of several maneuvers that will position the lander in a trajectory towards the Moon. After 25 days orbiting Earth, Blue [...]

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