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NASA’s ShadowCam Images Permanently Shadowed Regions from Lunar Orbit

With the success of NASA’s Artemis I launch, the previously unexplored shadowy regions near the lunar South Pole where Artemis astronauts will land in 2025, are more within our reach than ever before. One instrument that will support these future lunar exploration efforts is a hypersensitive optical camera called ShadowCam. ShadowCam is one of [...]

By |2023-02-09T16:37:00-05:00February 9th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

CAPSTONE to Test Technologies After Recovery from Communications Issue

NASA’s CAPSTONE – short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – is in good health following a communications issue that began in late January, and the mission team is preparing for upcoming technology demonstration tests. Beginning Jan. 26, CAPSTONE was unable to receive commands from ground operators. The spacecraft remained [...]

By |2023-02-08T16:59:00-05:00February 8th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA Awards Environmental Compliance, Operations Contract

NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Environmental Compliance and Operations 3 (ECO3) contract, which provides environmental restoration program services and other support at the agency’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

By |2023-02-08T15:15:00-05:00February 8th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 27th Resupply Launch to Space Station

Media accreditation is open for SpaceX’s 27th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for no earlier than Friday, March 10, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [...]

By |2023-02-06T09:57:00-05:00February 6th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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