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Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now… 1 Million ChemCam Shots!

By |2024-09-13T17:24:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractor

By |2024-09-13T15:59:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. NAMS-2 is a single award hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of [...]

Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesota

By |2024-09-13T14:29:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA/Matthias Maurer An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021. Astronauts aboard the orbital lab take images using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew Earth Observations. Crew [...]

NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

By |2024-09-13T13:52:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Sun rises above the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.Credit: NASA Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals [...]

Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypoint

By |2024-09-13T13:38:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge

By |2024-09-13T13:03:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Image Credit: BitGrit The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data. The goal is to allow external partners to build advanced, data-driven services using this data and to [...]

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training

By |2024-09-13T12:52:00-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training Credits: NASA/Trevor Graff/Robert Markowitz Black and gray sediment stretches as far as the eye can see. Boulders sit on top of ground devoid of vegetation. Humans appear almost miniature in scale against a swath of shadowy mountains. At first glance, it [...]

Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays

By |2024-09-12T14:57:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Frank Michaux On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch Oct. 10, 2024, on the first mission to conduct a detailed science investigation of Jupiter’s [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research

By |2024-09-12T14:00:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around.NASA NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support scientific investigations that include studies of blood [...]

Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution

By |2024-09-12T13:32:00-04:00September 12th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A laser powder directed energy deposition (LP-DED) 3D printer at RPM Innovations’ facility additively manufactures a large-scale aerospike rocket engine nozzle from one of Elementum 3D’s specialized, 3D-printable aluminum alloys.RPM Innovations Inc. In the fall of 2023, NASA hot fire tested an aluminum 3D [...]

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