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IXPE Operations Update

By |2024-03-26T19:55:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 26, using procedures developed following that previous interruption, the team initiated a spacecraft avionics reset to address the issue, which put IXPE into a planned safe mode. The team has confirmed that IXPE is once again transmitting valid telemetry data and is now working to resume science operations, in as rapid and safe [...]

NASA Selects First Lunar Instruments for Artemis Astronaut Deployment

By |2024-03-26T16:22:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA has chosen the first science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during Artemis III. Once installed near the lunar South Pole, the three instruments will collect valuable scientific data about the lunar environment, the lunar interior, and how to sustain a long-duration human presence on the Moon, [...]

CADRE Rovers’ Test Drive in the Mars Yard

By |2024-03-26T15:42:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Monika Luabeya Mar 26, 2024 Two full-scale development model rovers, part of NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration, drive in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in this image from August 2023. The project is designed to show that a group of robotic spacecraft can [...]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

By |2024-03-26T14:49:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. NAA awards the trophy annually for what it determines is “the greatest achievement in aerospace and astronautics in America.” The OSIRIS-REx team will be celebrated at an award [...]

Order Up: High School Students Compete to Launch Their Food into Space with NASA HUNCH Culinary Competition

By |2024-03-26T14:18:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Monday, Feb. 26, visitors to the Integrated Engineering Services Building at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, were greeted by the mouthwatering smell of roasted garlic, sautéed peppers and onions, fragrant herbs, and the unexpected discovery that the building’s main hallway had been turned into a pop-up kitchen for local high school [...]

University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters 

By |2024-03-26T14:12:00-04:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics [...]

NASA Awards Aerospace Model Systems Fabrication Follow-On Contract

By |2023-09-26T16:00:00-04:00September 26th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA has awarded the Reliance Consolidated Models VI (RECOM VI) contract to Advanced Technologies Inc. and Eagle Aviation Technologies, LLC, both of Newport News, Virginia, to support the fabrication of aerospace model systems and developmental test hardware managed by the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

NASA Names New Head of Technology, Policy, Strategy

By |2023-09-25T10:06:00-04:00September 25th, 2023|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Charity Weeden will serve as associate administrator for the agency’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), effective immediately. Weeden succeeds Bhavya Lal, who left the agency in July, and Ellen Gertsen, who had been serving as the office’s acting leader since then. [...]

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