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Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Tomorrow.io Precipitation Radar Data

By |2026-04-17T11:06:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

CSDA Menu CSDA Commercial Data Commercial Datasets Commercial Satellite Data Explorer Satellite Data Evaluation CSDA Vendors Airbus BlackSky Capella Space GeoOptics GHGSat ICEYE Vantor Planet PlanetiQ Polar Geospatial Center Satellogic Spire Teledyne Brown Engineering Tomorrow.io Umbra Program Activities Pilot Research Projects FAQs News Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Tomorrow.io [...]

Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears

By |2026-04-17T11:04:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the Sun can send waves through this space, and some of those disturbances can even reach Earth, affecting our power grid. Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way

By |2026-04-17T10:14:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky [...]

NASA Invites Media to Latvia Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

By |2026-04-16T12:41:00-04:00April 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science; Jānis Beķeris, chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United [...]

At the Edge of Light

By |2026-04-16T10:38:00-04:00April 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. A section of Orientale Basin is visible along the upper right portion of the lunar disk, its structure subtly revealed [...]

NASA’s Mobile Launcher Rolls Ahead of Artemis III Preparation

By |2026-04-16T08:33:00-04:00April 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA’s mobile launcher 1 begins its journey from Launch Pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, April 16, 2026. Tiffany Fairley Following the conclusion of NASA’s Artemis II test flight, teams at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are shifting focus to Artemis III, which is targeted to launch next year, by [...]

I Am Artemis: Rebekah Tolatovicz

By |2026-04-15T16:36:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Rebekah Tolatovicz Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting Lockheed Martin, works inside the Artemis III Orion crew module in the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting the [...]

NASA Selects Voyager for Seventh Private Mission to Space Station

By |2026-04-15T16:36:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida. This is the company’s first selection for a private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, underscoring NASA’s ongoing investment in fostering a commercial space economy and [...]

NASA Launches Six CubeSats to International Space Station

By |2026-04-15T16:27:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company’s Cygnus XL spacecraft, NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) launched six CubeSats built by U.S. educational [...]

2026 NSTA Hyperwall Schedule

By |2026-04-15T11:59:00-04:00April 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives 2 min read 2026 NSTA Hyperwall Schedule NASA Science at NSTA Hyperwall Schedule, April 16-18, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #1265) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda [...]

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