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Making High Fidelity Fluxgate Cores for Space Science and Space Weather Missions

By |2025-09-30T10:35:00-04:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa (UI) is restoring and advancing the nation’s capability to make high-fidelity magnetic field measurements needed to investigate space weather that can impact our communication and power grids on Earth and our assets in space. Fluxgate magnetometers are widely-used space science and space weather [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4668-4674: Winding Our Way Along

By |2025-09-29T20:13:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min [...]

New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests

By |2025-09-29T14:22:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests A recent update to the PSI database improves how large dataset downloads are handled, resulting in more efficient processing for users. Download requests larger than 1GB are now delivered via email, rather than downloading directly from the website. This allows the system to [...]

Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC

By |2025-09-29T14:09:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) experiment, conducted in the Microgravity Glovebox on ISS, helps scientists learn more about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in hopes of a future cure to similar neurological diseases. NASA At the virtual 2025 ISS Research and Development [...]

Two Camera Comets in One Sky

By |2025-09-29T13:44:24-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our [...]

Astronaut Candidates Get to Work at Johnson Space Center

By |2025-09-29T11:08:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions [...]

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

By |2025-09-29T10:00:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Telescope… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe [...]

A Rocket in the Sun

By |2025-09-27T13:44:28-04:00September 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully [...]

From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science

By |2025-09-26T16:44:00-04:00September 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Courses & Curriculums for… From City Lights to Moonlight:… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science When you think about national [...]

NASA Awards Custodial, Landscaping Services Contract

By |2025-09-26T16:00:00-04:00September 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA has selected Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc. of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to provide custodial, janitorial, landscaping, and recycling services for the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Facilities Custodial and Landscaping award is a firm-fixed-price hybrid completion and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The contract includes one 12-month base period and up to four [...]

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