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Cygnus Spacecraft Installed to Space Station; Cargo Ops Underway

By |2024-08-06T05:37:00-04:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is pictured attached to the Earth-facing port of the space station’s Unity module on Aug. 6, 2024. Credit: NASA TV Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft installation on the International Space Station is complete at 5:33 a.m. EDT. The spacecraft carried 8,200 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory for [...]

Live NASA Coverage of Cygnus Installation Underway

By |2024-08-06T04:33:00-04:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is pictured attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm, moments after NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick maneuvered the robotic arm to capture the spacecraft ahead of installation to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. Credit: NASA TV NASA’s coverage is underway for the installation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft to the International [...]

NASA Astronauts Capture Cygnus With Robotic Arm; Installation Soon

By |2024-08-06T03:16:00-04:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is pictured attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm moments after NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick maneuvered the robotic arm to capture the spacecraft ahead of installation to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. Credit: NASA TV At 3:11 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps as backup, [...]

Cygnus Spacecraft Approaching Space Station Live on NASA TV

By |2024-08-06T01:34:00-04:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter approaches the International Space Station as both spacecraft orbited 272 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. NASA’s coverage is underway for the capture of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft. At approximately 3:10 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick will capture Cygnus using the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm, and [...]

NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond

By |2024-08-05T18:01:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians with the University of Kansas prepare their KUbeSat-1 for integration at Firefly’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Thursday, April 25, 2024.Credit: NASA NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small [...]

Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS) Formally Launches

By |2024-08-05T17:23:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The NASA Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS) formally launched on 6/13/24 during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters with Administrator Nelson as the keynote speaker. The DRCS is a revamped one NASA approach in how the agency responds to natural hazards and disasters domestically and internationally to support partners and stakeholders The DRCS will be organized [...]

Coming in Hot – NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets

By |2024-08-05T17:20:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. The blue haloes represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine how habitable exoplanets may be based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit. This research will help guide [...]

Marshall Disasters Team Support National Weather Service Offices During May Severe Weather

By |2024-08-05T17:17:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

May 2024 was a very active month for severe weather across the United States, with several hundred tornadoes occurring throughout the United States. The MSFC Disasters team has been working with several National Weather Service (NWS) Offices across the Southeast this spring to help support their damage surveys with high-resolution commercial imagery and derived [...]

Snowstorm Field Campaign Wins Prestigious Presidential Rank Group Achievement Award

By |2024-08-05T17:14:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Personnel from the MSFC Earth Science Branch and local partners participated in the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS), and they are members of the IMPACTS team that recently won the prestigious Presidential Rank Group Achievement Award from NASA. IMPACTS was a highly successful NASA Earth Venture Suborbital airborne field [...]

KNaCK LIDAR Technology Demonstration at 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT5) Field Compaign, Flagstaff, Arizona

By |2024-08-05T17:10:00-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Michael Zanetti (ST13), Kyle Miller (EV42), and Chris Whetsel (ES52) conducted a technology demonstration and field work with the NASA JSC 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT-3) from 5/17-23/24, near SP Crater, Flagstaff, AZ. JETT5 tested full-up mission operations with communication to JSC-Houston, and included astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas testing ATLAS suits [...]

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