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What is BioSentinel?

By |2024-11-20T13:00:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

llustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon.NASA/Daniel Rutter Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 20, 2024 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked two years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station. Orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth in the weightlessness of microgravity, they rely on commercial [...]

5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

By |2024-11-20T12:54:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read 5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create opportunities to make discoveries that no one expected, helping us to solve mysteries [...]

NASA’s Brad Doorn Brings Farm Belt Wisdom to Space-Age Agriculture

By |2024-11-20T12:30:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earth (ESD) Earth Home Explore Climate Change Science in Action Multimedia Data For Researchers 14 Min Read NASA’s Brad Doorn Brings Farm Belt Wisdom to Space-Age Agriculture This image shows corn cultivation patterns across the U.S. Midwest in 2020, with lands planted in corn marked in yellow. Credits: NASA Earth Observatory/ Lauren Dauphin Bradley [...]

Shooting for the Stars: NASA Lights Up the Court at Toyota Center 

By |2024-11-20T12:08:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Nov. 6, 2024, NASA Night brought cosmic excitement to the Toyota Center, where Johnson Space Center employees joined 16,208 fans who interacted with NASA as they watched the Houston Rockets claim victory over the San Antonio Spurs.  Energy soared as International Space Station Program Manager Dana Weigel stepped up to take the first shot.  [...]

NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly

By |2024-11-20T12:00:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water’s surface during a pool test at Caltech in September. Conducted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the testing showed the feasibility of a mission concept for a [...]

Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation

By |2024-11-20T11:04:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction of an asteroid.  The research team, led by Jacob [...]

NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode

By |2024-11-20T10:00:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode After two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great scientific strides in the years since scientists dreamed up a new way to [...]

Gateway Tops Off

By |2024-11-20T09:46:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians carefully install a piece of equipment to house Gateway’s xenon fuel tanks, part of its advanced electric propulsion system. Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element, which will make the lunar space station the most powerful solar electric spacecraft ever flown, recently received the xenon and liquid fuel tanks for its journey to and around the [...]

About the Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer (OCKO)

By |2024-11-20T05:06:00-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The overarching purpose of the OCKO is to cultivate and sustain a learning culture at Goddard in support of mission success. We have instituted various processes and programs for lessons learned and critical knowledge identification, sharing, and application. The focus of the OCKO is to promote local learning practices that enhances domain-specific expertise within an [...]

From Houston to the Moon: Johnson’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Tests Lunar Solar Technology 

By |2024-11-19T17:02:00-05:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three companies to develop such systems, aimed at providing a power source at the Moon’s South Pole for Artemis missions.  Three companies were awarded contracts in 2022 with plans to test their self-sustaining solar [...]

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