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NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – now stands taller and more capable than ever. And that’s thanks to its mast. VIPER’s mast, and the suite of instruments affixed to it, looks a lot like the rover’s “neck” and “head.” The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers […]

Posted April 1, 2024

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

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Tech Today: NASA Helps Find Where the Wildfires Are

Globally, nearly all wildfires start with a human ignition source – not lightning strikes or wildlife encountering power equipment.

Posted March 19, 2024

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Artemis

Missions

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Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Inst.

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

Luxembourg Leaders Focus on Lunar Exploration at Visit to NASA Ames

The challenges of working on the surface of the Moon are at the center of a facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds help scientists and engineers – from NASA and industry alike – study how well science instruments, robots, and people might be able to […]

Posted March 9, 2024

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NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’

Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool. NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know where to turn – and the […]

Posted March 7, 2024

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA to Demonstrate Miniature CubeSat Swarm Technology

Preparations are underway for a new, small spacecraft technology demonstration that will test cost-efficient swarm capabilities – the ability for multiple spacecraft to communicate and perform coordinated actions. The PY4 mission’s four CubeSats are slated to launch Monday March 4, 2:05 p.m.

Posted March 4, 2024

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Astrogram

NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed by Rachel Hoover TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed into VIPER.

Posted March 1, 2024

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Diversity at NASA

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Exoplanets

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NASA Astronomer Sees Power in Community, Works to Build More

Science is often portrayed as a solitary affair, where discoveries are made by lone geniuses toiling in isolation. But Dr. Natasha Batalha, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, says solving problems with the people around her is one of the best parts of her job. “Oh, man, working with people […]

Posted February 21, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research

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Aeronautics Technology

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Convergent Aeronautics Solutions

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Wildfires

NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response.

Posted February 20, 2024

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Earth's Moon

In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed

A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instr

Posted February 13, 2024

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Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

Hayabusa 2

Missions

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

NASA Ames Hosts JAXA Leader to Discuss Space Science and Spaceflight

Daniel Andrews, project manager for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) (left), stands next to a full-scale model of the rover alongside visitors from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): Dr.

Posted February 7, 2024