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NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center 

By |2026-07-17T16:34:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.  The Ames Facilities Support Services II contract ensures that the center’s historic and specialized facilities are properly maintained, fully operational, and capable of supporting the agency’s missions and tenant partners in the NASA Research Park.  The hybrid contract has a five-year period [...]

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

By |2026-07-17T16:05:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse” Nebula, for the first time.X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./J. Dinsmore et al.; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Dinsmore et al., Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Optical: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare This composite image, [...]

La NASA invita a los medios de comunicación al lanzamiento del telescopio espacial Roman

By |2026-07-17T15:27:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Aquí puede verse el telescopio espacial Nancy Grace Roman de la NASA en la sala limpia del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la agencia en Greenbelt, Maryland, donde este observatorio fue construido y sometido a pruebas. Los amplios y profundos sondeos de Roman explorarán la materia oscura, la energía oscura, los exoplanetas y prácticamente [...]

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

By |2026-07-17T14:00:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeting launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is slated to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex [...]

NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby

By |2026-07-17T13:38:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby PIA26749 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Psyche Mission Images… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby PNG (4.47 MB) Description Captured by the multispectral [...]

Week Wraps with New Crew Adjustments and Human Research Studies

By |2026-07-17T12:58:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

The Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft, carrying NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking on June 14, 2026.NASA Crew swap activities are underway aboard the International Space Station as three new crewmates continue getting up to speed with living and working in microgravity [...]

NASA Welcomes Mauritius as 70th Artemis Accords Signatory  

By |2026-07-17T10:48:00-04:00July 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA The Republic of Mauritius has officially joined the global coalition committed to responsible space exploration, becoming the newest signatory and seventh African country to join the Artemis Accords. NASA’s Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson contributed video remarks for a signing ceremony on Friday, in the island nation’s city of Ébène. “We are honored to [...]

NASA Welcomes Serbia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory 

By |2026-07-16T18:37:00-04:00July 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić, right, shakes hands with NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson, left, after signing the Artemis Accords Thursday, July 16, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA/Keegan Barber The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington, becoming the [...]

Artist’s Concepts Depict SpaceX’s Starship HLS Test Article for NASA’s Artemis III

By |2026-07-16T17:44:32-04:00July 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

These artist’s concepts depict NASA’s Orion spacecraft and SpaceX’s Starship human landing system test article during rendezvous and docking operations as part of NASA’s upcoming Artemis III demonstration mission in low Earth orbit. NASA is working with two American companies to develop the human landing systems that will safely transport astronauts from lunar orbit to [...]

NASA Taps SpaceX’s Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion

By |2026-07-16T17:26:00-04:00July 16th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

An artist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft orbiting Earth.Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver laser communications capabilities for next year’s Artemis III mission, enabling the agency to provide a front row seat for viewers from the Orion spacecraft as four astronauts test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and test versions of commercial human landing systems needed to return astronauts to the Moon in 2028.  To supplement Orion’s [...]

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