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NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch

By |2024-06-20T13:59:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Satellite for Optimal Control and Imaging (SOC-i) CubeSat awaits integration at Firefly’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Thursday, June 6, 2024. SOC-i, along with several other CubeSats, will launch to space on an Alpha rocket during NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 43 mission as part of the agency’s [...]

Giant Batteries Deliver Renewable Energy When It’s Needed

By |2024-06-20T13:35:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In developing its flow battery, ESS drew from groundbreaking research and development conducted by the space agency more than 40 years ago. Pictured here, a 200-watt demonstration unit of the flow battery NASA built in the 1970s and 1980s.Credit: NASA Solar power is abundant [...]

A Bright New Abrasion

By |2024-06-20T11:35:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

PerseverancePerseveranceMission OverviewRover ComponentsWhere is Perseverance?Ingenuity Mars HelicopterMission UpdatesScienceOverviewScience ObjectivesScience Instruments Science Highlights News and FeaturesMultimediaPerseverance Raw ImagesMars ResourcesMars ExplorationAll PlanetsMercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto & Dwarf Planets 2 min read A Bright New Abrasion This image was acquired by the Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera A on June 16, 2024 (Sol 1181) at the local mean solar time of [...]

NASA Engineer Honored as Girl Scouts ‘Woman of Distinction’

By |2024-06-20T11:32:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Danielle Koch, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, was honored by the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio as a 2024 Woman of Distinction. She accepted the award during a ceremony on May 16. Credit: Girl Scouts of North East [...]

NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars

By |2024-06-20T11:13:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Supernova remnant 3C 58.X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICE-CSIC/A. Marino et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like it to probe the nature of matter inside these very dense objects. A new study, made [...]

First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image

By |2024-06-20T10:00:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Min Read First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image The Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared [...]

Stephanie Duchesne: Leading with Integrity and Openness for CLDP

By |2024-06-20T10:00:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Of all the lessons learned throughout her NASA career, the importance of relationship and personal integrity is one that has been repeatedly reinforced for Stephanie Duchesne, a Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) project executive. “Each person you work with has their own unique perspectives and concerns, and in order to solve a problem [...]

Sandy and the Moon Halo

By |2024-06-20T09:09:35-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Last April's Full Moon shines through high clouds near the horizon, casting shadows in this garden-at-night skyscape. Along with canine sentinel Sandy watching the garden gate, the wide-angle snapshot also captured the bright Moon's 22 degree ice halo. But June's bright Full Moon will cast shadows too. This month, the [...]

NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space

By |2024-06-20T08:57:00-04:00June 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From the left, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s, Maui Dalton, project manager, engineering; Katherine Zeringue, cultural resources manager; Janet Petro, NASA Kennedy Space Center director; and Ismael Otero, project manager, engineering, unveil a large bronze historical marker plaque at the location of NASA Kennedy’s original headquarters building on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Approved in April 2023 [...]

The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024

By |2024-06-18T17:58:00-04:00June 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

20 Min Read The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024 California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors [...]

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