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NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission

By |2025-03-05T12:23:00-05:00March 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager probes. The twin spacecraft launched in 1977.NASA/JPL-Caltech The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned [...]

Novel Recuperator Design for Cryogenic Fluid Management System

By |2025-03-05T11:15:00-05:00March 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Cryocoolers are essential systems in many space exploration missions to maintain propellants at cryogenic temperatures. Cryogenic recuperators are a key component of these cryocoolers and dictate the performance of the system. NASA is seeking to reduce the cost and increase the performance of cryogenic recuperators (also called Heat Exchangers) by utilizing Additive Manufacturing (AM) [...]

2025 Aviation Weather Mission: Civil Air Patrol Cadets Help Scientists Study the Atmosphere with GLOBE Clouds

By |2025-03-04T16:32:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation 2025 Aviation Weather Mission:… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read 2025 Aviation Weather Mission: Civil Air Patrol Cadets Help Scientists Study the Atmosphere with GLOBE Clouds The Science Activation Program’s NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative [...]

NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation

By |2025-03-04T16:30:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather. The mission will launch on the company’s Alpha rocket from [...]

Station Nation: Meet Chris Wade, Visiting Vehicle Integration Manager for SpaceX Vehicles 

By |2025-03-04T16:27:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Chris Wade is a visiting vehicle integration manager for SpaceX vehicles in the International Space Station Transportation Integration Office. He plays a key role in ensuring that all vehicle requirements are on track to support SpaceX missions to the space station. Chris also manages a team of real-time mission support personnel who follow launch, docking, [...]

FARMing with Data: OpenET Launches new Tool for Farmers and Ranchers

By |2025-03-04T15:41:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Dwane Roth (right), a fourth generation grain farmer in Finney County, Kansas, stands with nephew Zion (left) in one of their corn fields. Roth’s farm became one of the first Water Technology Farms in Kansas around 2016, and he has been using OpenET data [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing

By |2025-03-04T14:12:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. Credit: Intuitive Machines Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar [...]

March’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness

By |2025-03-04T13:55:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read March’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths. The images have been combined to represent the real colors of the galaxy. Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: Davide De [...]

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon 

By |2025-03-04T13:14:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon  An artist's concept of the Blue Ghost lunar lander receiving GNSS signals from Earth. Credits: NASA/Dave Ryan NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track [...]

30 Years Ago: STS-67, the Astro-2 Mission 

By |2025-03-04T13:00:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission. The crew included Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Gregory, Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, and Tamara Jernigan – who served as payload commander on the mission – and [...]

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