Ames Research Center

Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
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
Ames Research Center
Astrogram
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
General
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Diversity at NASA
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanets
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
People of NASA
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
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
Earth
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Natural Disasters
UAS Traffic Management
Wildfires
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
General
Ames Research Center
Earth's Moon
In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
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
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Hayabusa 2
Missions
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
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
General
Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s bio-manufacturing experiment called BioNutrients is testing a way to use microorganisms to produce on-demand nutrients that will be critical for human health during future long-duration space missions.
Posted January 30, 2024
Ames Research Center
SimLabs
Vertical Motion Simulator
Members of the cast and crew of Broadway production “The Wiz,” currently on tour at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre, visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Jan. 29 to learn more about the center’s work in air and space. The group met with center leadership and members of Ames employee advisory […]
Posted January 30, 2024
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Air Traffic Solutions
NASA has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Virginia, for the maintenance and operation of incident reporting programs and continuing development to improve current and future reporting systems.
Posted January 27, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics
Air Mobility Pathfinders project
Airspace Operations and Safety Program
Ames Research Center
Langley Research Center
In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over Long Island Sound, Connecticut taking care to avoid other aircraft in the area around them.
Posted January 25, 2024
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