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Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!

By |2026-06-10T17:23:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California

By |2026-06-10T16:32:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies in the region. The contract provides [...]

NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

By |2026-06-10T14:09:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

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NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence 

By |2026-06-10T13:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the Integrated Mobile Evaluation Testbed for Robotics Operations facility at Johnson Space Center, PickNik robotic control software proved its prowess in tasks like passing cargo transfer bags through a hatch and placing them in storage bins, in anticipation of work NASA would like [...]

Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments

By |2026-06-10T12:05:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Brandon Hancock The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III astronauts on their journey to space shipped from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah on June 2. The eight booster motor segments are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]

NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice

By |2026-06-10T08:43:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation GLOBE Mission Earth Educators… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   3 min read GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the [...]

NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation

By |2026-06-10T08:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to 240 GHz, for optimized sensitivity to a wide range of water droplet and ice particle sizes.  Figure 1: A prototype of CloudCube’s G-band channel [...]

Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristics

By |2026-06-09T16:47:00-04:00June 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for conducting flight dynamics research for stability, controllability, free-fall and aircraft spin, and spin recovery testing of atmospheric vehicles. Characteristics Test Section Dimensions: 20 ft. diam. by [...]

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