1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA’s sounding rocket solar flare campaign. The first rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. local Alaska time for the Focusing Optics […]
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6 Min Read Climate Change Research The Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (comprised of a pressurized module and exposed facility, a logistics module, a remote manipulator system and an inter-orbit communication system unit) pictured as the International Space Station orbits over the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand. Credits: NASA […]
Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids
5 min read Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don’t stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun. Astronomers […]
OSDR hosts Blue Origin Erika Wagner
Open Science Data Repository Team Hosts Blue Origin’s Dr Erika Wagner at the Meet the Expert Seminar Series Focused on Flight Integrators Friday, March 29, 2024—The Open Science Data Repository hosted the sixth presentation showcasing flight integrators in the “Meet the Expert” series. This series is targeted for the Open Science Analysis Working Group (AWG) […]
The Marshall Star for April 17, 2024
18 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 17, 2024 The Full Experience: NASA, Marshall, and Arkansas Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith More than 100,000 people from across the world gathered April 8 in Russellville, Arkansas, to witness an astronomical syzygy – the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth – creating a […]
NASA’s Near Space Network Enables PACE Climate Mission to ‘Phone Home’
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem ) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers , a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA’s Near Space Network , which introduced two key enhancements for PACE and other upcoming science missions. As a satellite orbits in space, its systems […]
NASA Photographer Honored for Thrilling Inverted In-Flight Image
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA research pilot Nils Larson and photographer Jim Ross complete aerobatic maneuvers in a NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California owned T-34C aircraft during a proficiency flight. NASA/Jim Ross Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the […]
Sometimes Getting the Perfect Picture Really Is Rocket Science
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The rocket was part of a series of three launches for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission to study the disturbances in […]
NASA to Hoist Its Sail: Solar Sail Mission Gets Ready for Launch
An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit. NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is […]
NASA Announces Winners of Power to Explore Challenge
The winners of NASA’s 2024 Power to Explore Student Challenge are: 9-year-old Raine Lin, left, 12-year-old Aadya Karthik, and 18-year-old Thomas Liu. Credit: NASA/Dave Lam NASA announced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge , a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students about the power of radioisotopes for […]
NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions
For a media briefing in advance of Earth Day, NASA will share info about next steps for its Earth research program, as well as highlight our newest Earth-observing satellite PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem). This image from PACE shows two different communities of phytoplankton in the ocean off the coast of South Africa on […]
Tech Today: Taking Earth’s Pulse with NASA Satellites
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This natural-color image of mountains of central Pennsylvania taken by Landsat 8 shows the colors of changing leaves and the unique topography of the region. Thanks to more than 50 years of planetary observation from low-Earth orbit, it’s possible to see natural changes and […]
Astronauts To Patch Up NASA’s NICER Telescope
4 min read Astronauts To Patch Up NASA’s NICER Telescope NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) , an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station , during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts. In May 2023, scientists discovered that […]